Entries tagged as ‘technology’
We can’t even begin to imagine the effect the mass media has on us, and what we will be in a hundred years. As a species we are mutating, mentally and emotionally because of all the technology around us. With TV, radio, wireless internet, mobile and handheld devices, satellites, etc etc imagine the amount of waves in the air, and going through us all the time. We eat, sleep and breathe in a world of invisible waves. Post 1800 the inventions and advances have come thick and fast. Besides changing history, we are changing the whole way history has been recorded.
In five hundred years, blogs will be effective records of our time, and people will be reading them as today we read cave paintings. Maybe in the future history will be much clearer. Today historians spend much time and effort and in interpreting paintings, carvings, or texts, pondering over the mysteries of ancient civilizations, but in the future that won’t really be a problem because everything we do now is digitally recorded, on the web, or through video or photographs. So the history of the future won’t be much of a mystery. But data-storage sure is going to be an issue 
Categories: illustration · society
Tagged: future, history, internet, mass media, satellite, technology, tv, waves, wireless
Technology is the name we have for stuff that doesn’t work yet. – Daniel Hillis
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. – Piet Hein
Categories: quote
Tagged: attack, hitting, problems, quotes, stuff, technology, work
About Alphabets – Some Marginal Notes on type design by Hermann Zapf
The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge/Mass. And London, England
The humble size and unassuming cover of this book reflect the character of the author, Hermann Zapf, in that he is not one to shout about the work he has done, even though his accomplishments in the field of type design and calligraphy are unparalleled. The book is a simple autobiography of one of the greatest graphic and type designers of our time.
Written in the first person, the book is an interesting account of his early beginnings, and his development. Being trained in the old school of type design – when letters were drawn by hand and then manually cut out of metal blocks – he provides interesting insights and observations that would rarely occur to modern day typographers and graphic designers. For example, the kind of metal used to engrave out the letters was of prime importance, and it was a relief when lead was introduced, as it lent itself to re-soldering, and new bits and pieces could be fused into the original block of the letter if too much had been cut off. (more…)
Categories: reviews
Tagged: alphabet, book, calligraphy, culture, design, hermann, insights, letters, review, technology, type, zapf
