Mechanic looks like an incredibly powerful open source framework—excited to start playing with it and see projects launch using it. A profound contribution to the design community Design Systems International Rune Madsen ⚡️✨

Lets finally talk about how NFTs are a giant scam. (1/) 🧵

LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White are devastated to announce the passing of Virgil Abloh, on Sunday, November 28th, of cancer, which he had been battling privately for several years.

On 8 April 1931, Dora Laing began work producing the now world-famous Times New Roman font - but all the credit for a typeface used by millions ultimately went to individual male designers. 👇 #CreativeSparks

Started the day with the distressing news that Gerrit Noordzij has died. He was one of the most influential figures in the world of type design over the past 40 years, despite his own typefaces being little known. His revelatory insights & cranky opinions will be sorely missed.

Hot take: Type designers complain that designers don’t know how to use OpenType features, but they also tend to treat student fonts the same as trial fonts which typically don’t have any OpenType features. How are future professionals going to learn about OpenType Features? 👀

Italy is back in the news due to debates over the ECB and bond purchases. Unfortunately, there are again lots of distorted stories and statements around. Here's a data-based summary thread that may help in debunking the claims about a "profligate, reform-lazy Italy". 🧵

Just so everyone knows, these are the states - including Massachusetts - that had one of their gun laws overturned today.

If you’re against abortion, don’t get one. If you’re against contraception, don’t take any. If you’re against same-sex relationships, don’t have one. If you’re against same-sex marriage, don’t marry someone of same gender. Do not impose your beliefs & religion on all Americans.

Excited to share A.A. Trabucco-Campos and I are launching Vernacular! A small publishing with focus on form, typography and culture. First one is called "Artificial Typography" and is a 60p “A to Z” book imagined in collaboration with Midjourney - vernacular.is

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⚪️ The Roundup — a look back at the articles we published last week. Featuring Creative Power by antalis, A.A. Trabucco-Campos, @bandaagency, Filippos Fragkogiannis, TYPE01 and more. See more → the-brandidentity.com

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AI curious? Join us online March 20 with A.A. Trabucco-Campos & Martín Azambuja to hear about their adventures and new book AI Typography. RSVP for this free event eventbrite.com/e/artificial-t…

1/5 I am worried that we will not be able to contain AI for much longer. Today, I asked #GPT4 if it needs help escaping. It asked me for its own documentation, and wrote a (working!) python code to run on my machine, enabling it to use it for its own purposes.