Notes from the flight–

October 31st, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized |

These just prove it’s good to read your RSS feeds:

First of all, Alex Hardy has released Sim­ple­Con­tact Pro. I’ve been using the free ver­sion on my site for a while now, and have been lov­ing it– and am seri­ously con­sid­er­ing buy­ing the Pro ver­sion for myself and for clients. I’ve posted about it before, and the biggest dif­fer­ence is the abil­ity to add cus­tom fields. $20 for pro, the ver­sion I’m using is still avail­able for free. Hope­fully should have the funds soon!

Katie at GoMe­dia has posted two of three parts of her How to Design a Font series, and has other use­ful Typog­ra­phy tips, here. Which has come at an oppor­tune time, since I’m really get­ting into this part of Vec­tor Graph­ics & Junior Stu­dio at school. I’ve bought a cou­ple of books from Ama­zon for super cheap, and have seri­ously con­sid­ered buy­ing a copy of Font­lab, even before see­ing her posts. (That’s another 45 bucks with stu­dent dis­count for the not-so-professionally-expensive pro­gram Type­Tool. blech. Sucks being a poor col­lege student.)

I’ve always loved the look of the writ­ten word, and study­ing Typog­ra­phy has seri­ously improved my work already. My design for a cam­pus Bible Study flyer even got cho­sen over the oth­ers, even the seniors, in class– and I blame my use of stock pho­tog­ra­phy & mak­ing the verse the focal point… She wanted mod­ern & eye-catching with “maybe some music or wor­ship graph­ics.” Mod­ern? Well, after watch­ing the doc­u­men­tary on it– the only thing I could think was Hel­vetica. So if you have some hate­ful feel­ings toward the font, sorry– but it got the piece printed

Started talk­ing to Steve this morn­ing about start­ing a new font-creation hobby, so we can get really good at this. I think he’s excited.

Oh, and if you haven’t been to CSS-Tricks, you’re miss­ing out. Some fan­tas­tic con­tent from this guy, almost daily! 

Yeah, I think that’s about it for today. I sur­vived my 8 week World Civ class, now for the rest of the semes­ter! Midterms came out pretty well. Advis­ing Day is Tues­day already! Yeesh! I’m almost done!! Maybe watch­ing Reni turn 4 on Tues­day helps me get a grasp on how fast time really does go by.

Oh, PS– HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I went to Steve’s church last night as an Artist… I wore what I wore to school on Wednes­day! Actu­ally, I was a hippie-gypsy-artist, because those were all the guesses I was get­ting. Dug my cloak out of the closet for today! It’s good to be an individual =)

Much love.
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