blog gone, blog-one, bloggone

Ho traslocato definitivamente!
Mi trovate qui: Poisongalore, da oggi un unico, rinnovato blog di grafica (e dintorni), motorizzato da WordPress, in cui confluiscono i precedenti inrete, zibaldone e circolodellagrafica, che asap trasferirò nella nuova sede, assieme ai materiali della didattica.

Saluti dal Vs. affezionatissimo

david rumsey collection

La prima accezione (storica: dal seicento) di grafica, in italiano, è cartografia; al proposito, FB mi segnala un gran sito cartografico: “The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 13,600 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history”.

daidala

Un blog (in rete dal 2002) per tipofili, daidala: words on letters; tra l’altro, specimen commentati di tipi:
01 FF Angie
02 Pastonchi
03 Ehrhardt
04 Avenir
05 Mendoza
06 FF Celeste
07 Syntax
08 Mrs Eaves
09 FF Meta
10 FF Eureka
11 TheMix
12 Loire
13 Columbus
14 Apollo
15 FF Super Grotesk
16 ITC Bodoni
17 Kepler

newsdesigner

Un blog sul Newspaper Design e dintorni, da leggere e vedere (tra l’altro, nella colonnina di sinistra, le prime pagine dei maggiori quotidiani in tutto il mondo). Gran trambusto, negli ultimi tempi, nei giornali (tra vari altri, La Tribune, The Times con lo zampino di Brody e tanto di nuovo tipo per titolazioni, Times Modern – qui una galleria delle testate storiche del giornale –, Politiken e Adresseavisen, e anche la Stampa nostrana, dal 20 cm) che paiono far a gara in liftings ma non sempre ciò aumenta le tirature, anzi.

typecuts

dal sito di andrea tinnes, typecuts:
“typecuts is an independent font and graphic label, dedicated to create and produce original contemporary fonts for retail and custom use.
typecuts was founded in 2004 by Andrea Tinnes to publish and promote her own fonts which are available from this website as well as primetype”.
con una galleria di foto di segni e alfabeti.

2 blog 2

Ce ne sempre di più: un bene (se sono utili e/o interessanti) per tutti!

Questi 2 sono:
type for you; a blog on typography (da giugno 2006; contributors: Pedro Serrão; João Planche; Pedro Mesquita – tutti portoghesi)
Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog (da marzo 2005; a multi-author blog).

Alla prossima…

eyetrack

Dal sito del teutonico Office for Newspaper Design:
“Newspaper reading behaviour can be recorded. The reader can move about freely and can also bring the newspaper into a comfortable position for reading. The fixation pauses can be recorded and one can find out precisely which parts of the paper have been read and which not.
In my work as newspaper designer I keep being confronted with questions which can only be partially answered. What is particularly unclear to date is how in fact the reader actually uses the newspaper. Does he follow the paths I, as designer, would like to trace for him, or does the reader find his own unconventional way which cannot be determined in advance? The recording of Visual Reading Activity project was carried out by me in order to attain firm established facts. The Video (56k Modem – DSL Modem) shows a two-minute-example of the reading process. The pdf-file contains the results of this eyetrack-study, which was done in 1989”.
Viel Danke!