Category: Books
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Idea for a new typography term
Source: Ironic Sans.
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Screenplay for “The Wall” (Pink Floyd)
We do not often see the sceenplay of a movie we like. Maybe it’s fortunate because they are hardly exhilarating except when they come from Alfred Hitchcock (the man was a maniac of detailed preparation) or when they describe all about animation movies. The Wall, the Alan Parker movie created with the eponymous music album…
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Woody Allen love story with a typeface
For those who did not notice, a disproportionately large majority of the titles to Woody Allen movies are written in one and only one font: Windsor. Apparently, this comes from a conversation with Ed Benguiat, famous American typographer, where Allen wanted to know what a good typeface was. Source: KitBlog.
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A computer voice for your texts
With VozMe, it’s easy to have your computer read a text. In English (but also in Spanish and in Italian), you will get an MP3 file with your text read by the slightly-metallic voice of your computer.
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End of the Odyssey
One of the greatest minds and authors of the 20th Century just died. Arthur C. Clarke was very well known for some of his highly acclaimed books (think about 2001: A Space Odyssey and the collaboration with Stanley Kubrik on the movie with the same name). Some of them were only known to Science Fiction…
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