In a great post by Jonathan Hoefler titled "On the Death and 441-Year Life of the Pixel", Giovanni Ostaus' alphabetical bitmap embroidery from 1567 is juxtaposed against modern typographical design: Renaissance ‘lace books’ have much to offer the modern digital designer, who also faces the challenge of portraying clear and replicable images in a constrained environment. Ostaus’s alphabet follows the cardinal rule of bitmaps, which is to always reckon the height of a capital letter on an odd number of pixels. (Try drawing a capital E on both a 5×5 grid and a 6×6, and you'll see.) Ostaus ignored the...
Pixel-based typography from 1567 - On the death and 441-year life of the pixel via DF. The struggle to adequately render letterforms on a pixel grid is a familiar one, and an ancient one as well: this bitmap alphabet is from La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorte di ricami, an embroidery guide by Giovanni Ostaus published in 1567. Renaissance ‘lace books’ have much to offer the modern digital designer, who also faces the challenge of portraying clear and replicable images in a constrained environment. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts |...
Filed under: Displays, HDTV This morning you saw what a 9.9-mm thin LCD from Sony looks like. Now it's Philips' turn to drop jaw. Albeit just a concept compared to Sony's ZX1, this 8-mm thin, 32-inch LCD with LED backlighting is done with the engineering and now waits for the suits to bring it to market. Two thin strips of Philips' own LumiLEDs -- 30 on top and 30 on the bottom -- are the secret sauce to this thin, Full HD mixture. According to Philips' "Senior Scientist," Dr. Giovanni Cennini, this 8-mm design will scale to panel sizes of...
Last week Giovanni Gallucci sent me a link to Viewzi which has some interesting search UI’s that I think advanced users might actually use. Unlike Cuil I don’t think they spent 30 million and ended up with a product that thinks the best picture for me is a picture of Elliot Spitzer. One of the search UI’s is called celebrity photo and here’s what it turns up for Lindsay Lohan. Here’s the video search for Lindsay Lohan. Ok so maybe your looking for something a little more serious and professional like information on disqus.com, try the information window. Another interesting...
Why are we not yet seeing European brands take part in online engagement and being stuck in a web 1 mentality? Take Nespresso for example I am huge fan and at least 10 of my online friends and 20 of my personal friends own the machine, all this came from a chat with Florian in Paris regarding the mess my existing machine made in my kitchen. He recommended it personally to me, I purchased it and I recommended it left, right and centre, now my friends are recommending it to their friends. The question I am asking is where is...
