2 posts tagged “architecture”
Of all the documentaries you'd imagine a person making, would you imagine a documentary about this? I suppose there's a point to be made. After all, if we see the architecture of our dwellings as social commentary, why not the architecture of our typefaces?
Regardless, typefaces are big business. I love my Linotype font manager, which I downloaded for free. And as cool as the different fonts are there, to buy them..sheesh!
Reading here, I discovered that the Wall Street Journal has a special font designed for their stock pages. Their Retina typeface was designed to keep ink from blurring the tiny agate type of stock tables. Now, did you know that?
Your House by Olafur Eliasson is a hand-bound, laser cut book with 454 pages that renders the negative space of the artist’s house at a scale of 85:1.
Eric Gjerde also posted on this story, with some additional pictures, at Origami
Tessellations. Why am I interested in this? Because my attention is grabbed by anything that relates to books, art, architecture, or basically anything that is too cool for words. And this is pretty cool.
