Type sizes, building slower, a major American holiday of some note
Final edits on Store Design have come back. Now I get to final-final edit it and send it off to the printer.
Still on track for arrival in the next few months.
This week, for paid members
- Our weekly paid lesson is all about type sizes. Because apparently you all need to be educated about that.
- Our design of the week covers a masterpiece of unreadability. Bosshard would never!
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Links
- I’ve waited until the series is done to post about it here, and now it is, so: Erin Kissane’s four-parter about Myanmar, and the role that tech had in fomenting genocide there, is an absolutely essential read, probably the most important thing I’ll post about here all year. (Materially every content warning you can think of applies here.) As we all know, social media reached its permanent & definitive conclusion near the end of last year, although it is taking time for that realization to settle into the collective on a soul level. In what specific ways are we all complicit in the societal collapse that is brought about by social media, and what must we do to move past the damage that social media has brought to us?
- I’ve been told that there is a major American federal holiday approaching. You might want to prepare for it.
- The whole Whole Earth.
- Forms should be one column.
- There’s a lot of utility & actionability in this post, which tells you to build slower in order to create enduring structure.
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