Recent Surfing Highlights 61
+ The Butterfly Alphabet
+ Typographica's favourite fonts of 2006
+ Recycle your old computer gear via Apple Aus
+ Monocle's top 20 liveable cities of the world
+ NZ powerless to prevent 'cultural theft'
+ The (non-existent) delta of Australia
+ 'Differential Affect Gap', or the dag factor
+ Solving the enigmas of everyday design
+ The logos of 'radical organisations'
+ 18 metres of Gigantor
+ The Vader Project
The Butterfly Alphabet, (or, Lepidopteran letterforms). Via Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society.
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Typographica's favourite fonts of 2006. For me, Guardian and Omnes are truly wonderful – and get a load of the 'z' in Joshua Darden's Freight (Bold Italic?) – splendid stuff. Not to mention the details and florid embellishments in Sibylle Hagmann's Odile. Very nice.
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Recycle your old computer gear via Apple Australia. Limited time (and Melbourne and Sydney) only.
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Monocle's top 20 liveable cities of the world, based on Monocle's 'quality of life' survey. You'll need to read the magazine (issue 5) to learn more. It's also a magazine I'm enjoying – to a point. It's nice to be seated in a comfy chair, in the eleventh most 'highly-liveable city' reading a pretty intelligent, interesting magazine with a global coverage. My big reservation with Monocle is the 'fabulous' jet-setting aspirational tone throughout. I can almost imagine there being a Monocle Lear Jet (they do have a very dorky Swedish bicycle). But still – I do buy it... I mean purchase it. The magazine that is. For now.
Monocle's top 20 cites:
1. Munich
2. Copenhagen
3. Zurich
4. Tokyo
5. Vienna
6. Helsinki
7. Sydney
8. Stockholm
9. Honolulu
10. Madrid
11. Melbourne
12. Montreal
13. Barcelona
14. Kyoto
15. Vancouver
16. Auckland
17. Singapore
18. Hamburg
19. Paris
20. Geneva
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New Zealand powerless to prevent 'cultural theft'. Maori names and symbols are very popular – even out of their local context.
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The (non-existent) delta of Australia. Thomas J. Maslen published this map in 1827. "Why, there must be an inland sea there!" he must have thought. Maslen reportedly never visited Australia. Oops. Via Bibliodyssey.
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'Differential Affect Gap', or the dag factor. The "'Differential Affect Gap' (DAG) – (is) a discrepancy between the emotion expressed in a song and the emotion felt by the listener". Barbara Streisand and Barry Manilow being the best exponents of DAG-giness. But we knew that already.
For readers OS, dag is Australian slang for, well, read more here.
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Solving the enigmas of everyday design. Via Core77.
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The logos of 'radical organisations' that may or may not be loosely called 'terrorist' by some, occasionally.
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18 metres of Gigantor. Every town should have a life-sized, yet giant, Japanese robot statue. Kobe, deservedly, gets one first. Via Boing Boing.
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