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The League of Moveable Type have supplied a great ultra bold slab serif typeface for ‘free download’.

Check out this font at: http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/4-chunk
Submitted:  May 24th, 2009
Format: Opentype
Size: 26.6 KB

The font comes courtesy of Meredith Mandel, a graphic designer from the USA, with a sweet portfolio that’s worth giving a look. She can be found on the following: http://www.meredithmandel.com/

The League of Moveable Type is an ‘Open Source Type Movement’ that provide/showcase typefaces by anyone that wishes their work to be subject to the ‘Open Font License‘, which encourages designers and developers to share their typographic goodenss, whether that’s fonts or software.

Quote from The League of Moveable Type:

“We’re done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.”

No more bullshit. Join the revolution.

Quote from ‘OFL’:

We want to:

• enable others to participate in our projects
• enable others to cater to needs for which we don’t have the resources
• share our wealth of knowledge and experience in the area of writing systems and pass on our tools
• equip the community to meet its font needs

We serve the peoples of the world without regard to their material wealth, so we are grateful to those that do fund our work.

Find out more about Open Font License.

I recently came across a simple little solution to a simply annoying artifact of the most excellent ‘Create Your Own Badge‘ from Flickr.

First off, a thank you goes out to Adam Lewis of www.adamwlewis.com for coming up with a solution, a second off (if there is such a phrase), I’m not a coder, just a humble designer that’s trying to ensure his websites function the way they should.

The problem is that when a user clicks on any of the images it displays it always opens the Flickr page in the same window, which you don’t want ideally.

So here is the solution:

1. Copy the code
2. Paste the Code
3. Test the Code

Copy the code below and paste it below the block level element (div, table, whatever) containing your Flickr code, refresh the page, click on one of your images and that should be it.
<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
var oFlickrTable = document.getElementById(“flickr_badge_wrapper”);
oFlickrBadgePhotos = oFlickrTable.getElementsByTagName(“a”);
for (nBadgePhoto = 0; nBadgePhoto < oFlickrBadgePhotos.length; nBadgePhoto++) {
oFlickrBadgePhotos[nBadgePhoto].target = “external”;
}
//–>
</script>

I have used the oFlickrBadgePhotos[nBadgePhoto].target = “external”; because on the particular site I was working on it used the rel=”external” attribute, but you may be using the target=”_blank” so you’d add _blank instead i.e. oFlickrBadgePhotos[nBadgePhoto].target = “_blank”;

The only difference to the code above to what Adam has suggested is that I’ve added <script type=”text/javascript”> as opposed to just <script>, this’ll ensure that it validates properly.

You can see this code in action on the Stevie Brown website, with some of his Flickr photos in the middle of the home page.

The Grangemouth Science Festival posters and flyers

As part of the ongoing work with Global Science I was asked to produce a poster for the Grangemouth Science Festival which is to be held at the Grangemouth Sports Stadium, Kersiebank Avenue, Grangemouth on the 11th March 2010.

There was no brief as such, but I was given the copy and company logos that were required to be included in the artwork. Having worked on similar assignments with my employer Global Web Limited for Global Science, and having a clear understanding of the nature of their business, my approach to the design was quite simple – make it colourful and eye catching. All the artwork was produced in Adobe Illustrator.

1,000 flyers were produced, along with 120 A3 posters and 4 A2 matt laminated posters which were to be used at key locations. All the print work was done locally to the company I work at Global Web in Aberdeen, Scotland.

The Community Evening is organised by Global Science who hold the STEMNET contract for the brokerage of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths activities to primary and secondary schools for the East of Scotland. The event is part of the INEOS Set Fair and is partnered by Global Science, Forth Valley College, Scottish Power, INEOS, Atkins Engineering, The Scottish Government and Global Web Limited.

More information about the event can be found on the Global Science website.

“Perfection does not create memories, because memories only result from movement, from a lively experience of interaction – with people, the surroundings and the atmosphere.”

Tom Michelberger – hotel designer

website: http://www.michelbergerhotel.com/

musing found on: http://www.weheart.co.uk/2010/01/05/the-michelberger-hotel-berlin/

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A random few hours in Illustrator this afternoon listening to some dubstep produced this baby. No theme, no brief, just whatever came to mind at that moment.