RobSog

Hoosgot a new year's resolution?

Hoosgot (pronounced ‘who’s got’) is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for. So hoosgot a new year’s resolution then?

Differences in reading: paper and screen

An alternative title to this post could be: paper is more for giving, and forgiving. It’s prompted for the most part by Aaron Straup Cope outlining a couple of talks he had hoped to give. He writes:

‘The Internet has rightly been called an architecture of participation. Paper, though, remains the most successful and robust architecture of shared histories to date. The prevailing theory that all human endeavour will sooner or later migrate to the online sphere ignores the physical constraints that continue to bind the digital world; both as a risk factor and a barrier to its use.’

105 West Architects

Christmas card for a client. Website on the way...

Purple prose from Pantone

From the colour folks in Carlstadt, comes ‘a multifaceted hue reflecting the complexity of the world that surrounds us’. Did that raise an eyebrow? Well this certainly will...

‘Pantone 18-3943 Blue Iris, a beautifully balanced blue-purple, as the color of the year for 2008. Combining the stable and calming aspects of blue with the mystical and spiritual qualities of purple, Blue Iris satisfies the need for reassurance in a complex world, while adding a hint of mystery and excitement’. Pass the bucket. Or should I say Bouquet.

Suitcase font | Gloriola

Gloriola is a monolinear sans serif from Suitcase Type Foundry – a neighbour here in Prague. I'm most partial to the dark and light versions.

Florence Nightingale | Information Designer

From the Economist: although remembered as the mother of modern nursing, Nightingale was an accomplished statistician too. She was particularly innovative in presenting data visually...as with today’s pie charts, the area of each wedge is proportional to the figure it stands for, but it is the radius of each slice (the distance from the common centre to the outer edge) rather than the angle that is altered to achieve this.

Beer mat designs

More Russian beer ephemera here. Chtob vse byli zdorovy.

Tea time. Or is that T-time?

Johnson Banks – the designer's designers – have designed (that's a lot of design) a teacup and saucer for the Creation Gallery G8 in Ginza, Tokyo. Just my cup of typo+graphic tea...