A Brief Introduction to Typography | Buscando Trazos agosto 27, 2012 § La Tipografia és un dels elements clau de tot disseny gràfic. M’atreviria a dir que és l’ELEMENT. Es pot dissenyar bé utilitzant únicament, i correctament, tipografia. No cal res més, la resta sol ser palla. Tot i així, fora de l’àmbit del disseny gràfic, és un tema desconegut i no se li dóna la importància que té (per això existeixen els dissenyadors, no?). Amb aquesta infografia pretenc explicar els aspectes més bàsics de la tipografia i donar a conèixer les “millors”, aquelles que sempre funcionen sense necessitat de complicar-se gaire la vida. A continuació enllaço algunes pàgines que m’han servit de documentació: · 100 Best Typefaces · 100 Best Fonts in a Huge Sortable Table · Las 100 Mejores Fuentes Tipográficas · A Brief History of Type · Vox-ATypl Classification · Basic Anatomy · Serif · Typeface Anatomy Me gusta: Me gusta Cargando...
All the ladies like whiskers In 1860, having recently seen a picture of him without facial hair, an 11-year-old girl named Grace Bedell decided to write to Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln with a suggestion: to grow a beard. Her letter, and Lincoln's reply, can be seen below. She met Lincoln a few months later, as the President-elect travelled victoriously to Washington, D.C. by train. He now had a beard. "He climbed down and sat down with me on the edge of the station platform," she recalled. Transcripts follow. (Source: Detroit Public Library; Images above: Lincoln in 1858, via, Lincoln in 1863, via.) Transcript Hon A B LincolnDear SirMy father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr. Lincoln's Reponse: Springfield, Ill.
New USDA rule allows hidden feces, pus, bacteria and bleach in conventional poultry The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently in the process of trying to ram through passage of a new "modernization" rule for conventional poultry production that would eliminate a large percentage of USDA inspectors and speed up the factory production process. And existing safeguards, as minimally effective as they currently are, would also be eroded, allowing for more hidden feces, pus, bacteria and chemical contaminants to persist in conventional chicken and turkey meat. Even though salmonella rates as detected in meat and poultry have been steadily dropping year after year in the U.S., roughly the same numbers of people seem to be getting infected with the pathogen annually. But a whole new set of guidelines being proposed by the USDA will make things even worse by allowing companies to self-inspect themselves, as well as use an even more aggressive barrage of chemicals to treat their tainted meat before selling it to consumers.
Real Life Mowgli: Girl Who Grew Up in the African Wildlife Riding a five-ton elephant, whom she called ‘my brother’, chilling with a cheetah or hugging a giant bullfrog as if it were a Teddy bear. The childhood of a French girl Tippi Degre sounds more like a newer version of Mowgli, rather than something real. A white child, she was born in Namibia to French wildlife photographer parents, and grew up in Africa. The little girl saw nothing unusual about her company: “I don’t have friends here. Tippi is now 23 years old, and the only child to wildlife photographer parents Sylvie Robert and Alain Degre, who published her photos in a book called Tippi of Africa. Website: tippi.org, Book: Tippi of Africa
Stunning Portraits Of The World’s Remotest Tribes Before They Pass Away (46 pics) Living in a concrete box with hot water pouring from the tap, a refrigerator cooling our food and wi-fi connecting us to the rest of the world, we can barely imagine a day in a life of, say, Tsaatan people. They move 5 to 10 times per year, building huts when the temperature is -40 and herding reindeer for transportation, clothing and food. “Before They Pass Away,” a long-term project by photographer Jimmy Nelson, gives us the unique opportunity to discover more than 30 secluded and slowly vanishing tribes from all over the world. [Read more...] Spending 2 weeks in each tribe, Jimmy became acquainted with their time-honoured traditions, joined their rituals and captured it all in a very appealing way. His detailed photographs showcase unique jewellery, hairstyles and clothing, not to forget the surroundings and cultural elements most important to each tribe, like horses for Gauchos. Source: beforethey.com Book: Amazon.com Kazakh, Mongolia Himba, Namibia Huli, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Population Matters » For a sustainable future How Some Kids With A Van Are Changing The Pro-Life Movement - Live Action News & Opinion David Pomerantz On March 13, in Dallas, TX, an organization you’ve probably never heard of is going to revolutionize the pro-life movement. It starts with a kid from Philly, a bus in New York, and an idea that brought him quite by accident to the city where Roe v. Wade started — the city where he hopes abortion will finally meet its match. David Pomerantz, 23, does not look like a pro-lifer or a practicing Christian. He looks like a vegan hipster with emo hair. A polite, friendly young man with a laconic kid-from-nowhere accent and a direct blue gaze, David Pomerantz — “Dave” to his friends — does not jibe with the stereotypical image of the angry activist holding signs outside a clinic. He hails from Philadelphia, but he was attending Word of Life, a two-year Bible institute in New York, when he met Chris Slattery and Julie Beyel of EMC (Expectant Mother Care), a Manhattan pregnancy resource center. EMC had a bus equipped with a sonogram machine. Save the Storks was born. Nope.
Le pangasius: à rayer de sa liste d’épicerie? Plusieurs lecteurs nous ont fait parvenir un courriel qui circule sur le Web en ce moment: le pangasius, ce poisson vendu en filet dans presque toutes nos épiceries, serait contaminé. Légende urbaine? Photo: shutterstock Pour sa chair blanche sans arêtes, son goût peu prononcé et son prix abordable, cette espèce de poisson-chat développée par les Vietnamiens dans les années 1990 envahit désormais les marchés mondiaux. Toutefois, comme en fait état un courriel alarmiste qui circule actuellement sur le Web, plusieurs consommateurs se questionnent sur la salubrité et l’impact environnemental de ce poisson d’élevage. Se questionner oui, s’alarmer non «Oui, il y a lieu de s’inquiéter, au même titre qu’il est normal de se questionner sur la qualité des produits de la mer qui nous viennent de partout dans le monde, y compris du Québec. Notons que c’est Santé Canada qui fixe les niveaux de contaminants acceptables dans les aliments au pays. Toutes les Nouvelles
Iconic Empire State Building lights up with colors of the Philippine flag for Yolanda victims Inilawan ng mga kulay ng Philippine flag ang iconic Empire State Building, sa New York City, noong Biyernes ng gabi, November 15 (Sabado ng umaga sa Pilipinas). Ito ay bilang pakikisimpatiya ng U.S.A. sa mga Pilipinong naging biktima ng super typhoon Yolanda, na may international name na Haiyan. Naka-post sa official Twitter account ng @EmpireStateBldg ang red, white, blue, and yellow picture ng isa sa pinakamataas at prominenteng gusali sa New York. May caption ito na: "Empire State Building lights up in Philippines colors to raise awareness & support for typhoon victims." Bahagi ng American movie history ang Empire State Building, dahil dito kinunan ang mga eksena ng ilan sa mga kilalang pelikula—tulad ng 1957 romantic movie na An Affair to Remember at ang 1993 romance-comedy na Sleepless in Seattle. RELIEF MEASURES. Ang Filipino U.S. "In light of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (named “Yolanda” by Philippine authorities), U.S.
Why Social Sustainability Should Be Part Of Every Business I can’t think of anything that illustrates the human cost of doing business more than the tragedy this past April in Bangladesh. More than 1,100 men, women, and children died when the Rana Plaza building, which housed a number of garment factories, collapsed. Most were garment workers who were ordered by supervisors to report to work, even after inspectors deemed the building unsafe. Millions of people around the world work in dangerous and unhealthy conditions, earning a nominal income to deliver the products we consume. Some of you might be thinking that social sustainability is a phrase made up of feel-good buzz words. Here are three key points that every business leader should keep top-of-mind: Social Sustainability Mitigates Risk Simply put, ignoring social sustainability is a liability--to both your brand and product quality--that businesses can no longer afford. Similarly, businesses risk product quality by ignoring the social side of sustainability. Businesses are responding.
Instagram's Envy Effect I keep having the same conversation over and over. It starts like this: “I gave up Facebook for Lent, and I realized I’m a lot happier without it.” Or like this, “Pinterest makes me hate my house.” Yikes. I’m not anti-technology or anti-Internet, certainly, but I do think it’s important for us to remind ourselves from time to time that watching other peoples’ post-worthy moments on Facebook is always going to yield a prettier version of life than the one you’re living right now. When you’re waiting for your coffee to brew, the majority of your friends probably aren’t doing anything any more special. My life looks better on the Internet than it does in real life. Because community—the rich kind, the transforming kind, the valuable and difficult kind—doesn’t happen in partial truths and well-edited photo collections on Instagram. But seeing the best possible, often-unrealistic, half-truth version of other peoples’ lives isn’t the only danger of the Internet. I’m a writer.
The Pope: how the Church will change by EUGENIO SCALFARIPope Francis told me: "The most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days are youth unemployment and the loneliness of the old. The old need care and companionship; the young need work and hope but have neither one nor the other, and the problem is they don't even look for them any more. They have been crushed by the present. You tell me: can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? Your Holiness, I say, it is largely a political and economic problem for states, governments, political parties, trade unions." Your Holiness, you say that the Church must feel responsible. The meeting with Pope Francis took place last Tuesday at his home in Santa Marta, in a small bare room with a table and five or six chairs and a painting on the wall. And here I am. It's a joke, I tell him. Is the Church doing that?"