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Nuggets of wisdom.
Jul 25
Jul 22
Ready For Take-off
I got my passport and visa back from the American embassy today, which means I’m really, truly moving across the planet this weekend.
What are your weekend plans?
Via my other tumblelog All Things Pixar, which got featured on the front page!
via nevver.
CollegeHumor’s “Font Conference” — As a type designer it’s great to see some font-related humor, but why isn’t Rage Italic a raving mad Italian? via rickyv.
Jul 21
Jul 20
Fueled by Ether, via nevver.
Types of Bad Kissers via aja.
Learning to walk again
One of the most fascinating things about moving to a whole new (and very different) country is the feeling that you have to learn how to walk again. Very simple things, things you take for granted or know by heart in your own country are now things you will have to figure out.
For example, today I learned what a credit union is. I’ve seriously never heard of such a thing before (and I’m generally not that clueless about most things). Over here we simply have banks. One layer of banks, all the same, pretty much. I also learned that to join a credit union, I have to meet very specific demands. Some were extremely specific, and sadly I could find none in New York City that catered to Swedes or graphic designers and those are the only denominations I subscribe to.
Bummer.
I guess I will have to go with a regular big bank then, who will all apparently “screw me over” and leave me for dead from what I’ve heard so far.
Jul 19
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
“Elephant Gun” by Beirut.
There are days I wish this came in a can.
» Poolga — iPhone/iPod touch wallpapers
So many gorgeous wallpapers it’s hard to know which one(s) to pick.
Retrolicious posters by Amy Martin.
Jul 18
Analogue World
I came in contact with an analogue world long thought to have been extinct today. I went to get an international driver’s license (which is a little pamphlet) at the local affiliate of the Swedish Automobile Association, and the elderly man taking care of the license seriously used a Remington Monarch typewriter to enter my name and details into it, and then he used a stamps with the association’s logo and another to enter the issuing date. I have to say I really rather loved the experience, so refreshing to see that these things still live on in places. And it’s so lovely to read my name in the imperfect, smudgy lettering that you only get from a typewriter.
“ Creative people are envious of other creative people and that creates inspiration.
— Ed Cotton, BSSP (via didyouevernotice)