Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Video: What font did they use to design this font conference script?


Oh, so funny. It hurts. Where, oh where is ‘Souvenir,’ I ask?

Pennysylvania: Video Journalism workshop for reporters (Two day)

Video Journalism (multi-day, hands-on workshop)
Instructor: Robb Montgomery

GOAL: Journalists will learn the fundamentals of producing compelling Web video journalism.

Reporters will learn how to set up their cameras and audio gear to produce professional reports from the field; How to shoot and edit sequences, conduct interviews for film and practice with the editing workflow, story editing and principal technologies.
Working in small groups and using their cameras and editing tools, students will get hands-on experience gathering the elements to put together a news video for the Web.

September 18-19
PNA Foundation Training Room
Harrisburg, PA

We cover the following in a multi-day seminar.

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Interview with Sir Harold Evans, the grand master of newspaper design

The Indy has a great sit down with the maverick editor of the The Sunday Times who wrote the book on newspaper design 35 ears ago - Sir Harold Evans.

An excerpt:
Harold Evans: ‘These grand designs must have stories to back them up’

“Here’s a thing about innovation,” says Evans sagely. “Nobody has ever predicted the next innovation.” In one respect though he did clearly lay claim to having seen the future: that design would have to take the lead. “Newspaper design cannot go on being so insular if the newspaper is to fulfil its role,” he wrote in Editing and Design.

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How a magazine spread is designed and the handwriting of type designers

Two things: A video that shows how a magazine article is laid out and samples of the handwriting of influential type designers - A “two-fer for Tuesday” as some DJ’s used to say in radio . . . you remember radio? Radio when it was programmed by human DJ’s in real-time don’t you?

The “hot single” is this fun time-lapse video that documents a designer’s work shaping up a magazine spread.
I found this on Swiss designer Tina Roth Eisenberg’s blog.

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Pandora and the top 10 free iPhone applications

I have my Scottish ancestors to thank for being this tight, but I am only interested in the free apps. Here is my top 10 list of free applications currently on my iPhone.

  1. Pandora on the iPhone is amazing. It makes your iPhone into a commercial-free transistor radio, in a sense. Perfect for the towel on sand at Brighton, or North Avenue Beach.
  2. Twittelator is my must have Twitter app. Twitterific was great, but now has intrusive ads . . . ’nuff said.
  3. Last.fm also gives you a Pandora-like radio experience
  4. AIM - of course!
  5. Weatherbug - so much more detail than the basic Apple weather app. Love the animated radar - a life saver in Chicago.
  6. Google mobile app - gives you direct access to your Google docs.
  7. Facebook - natch!
  8. Truphone - for making skype like calls to international friends for pennies.
  9. BA Flights - to track real time flight info for British Airways flights I or friends might be taking. (Hello, American Airlines - get with the program, people . . ) Would also love it if Kayak or Sidestep offered a native app, too.
  10. Translators: The free Coolgorilla talking phrases apps include text and audio translations for common phrases in German, French, Spanish and Italian.

Ich verstehe nur bahnhof . . .
One more fave is the Apple Remote app that let’s you control your mac’s Tunes player with your iPhone. This one is creepy cool.

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How Radiohead films a video without video cameras

Data is all around us and this Radiohead music video and the making of video below illustrate how digital information (Information sent by lasers, reflected off objects and then sensed and recorded by computers) can draw very real and compelling moving images.

No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR.

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