Bits of Richard Rutter connected.
Jan 26
“ It’s difficult to go around being aloof and cynical when you look exactly the same and act exactly the same way as everyone else. I caught myself contemplating buying a top hat the other day, just to mix things up a little, but my heart wasn’t really in it.
Dec 11
“ I wanted to put together a presentation that could really illustrate my three pillars of web Typography “legibility, hierarchy, and expression” and disprove the idea that typography is just what font you pick.
Nov 28
“ The performance is a tribute to lavish and well-directed spending on IT.
Nov 26
“ After doing a market survey and discovering that their target customers thought that Concorde was more expensive than it actually was, BA progressively raised prices to match these perceptions. It is reported that BA then ran Concorde at a profit.
Nov 06
“ Cheese is real, and so it seems, is the pleasure of the text
Oct 06
“ He says that when people treat their web sites like buildings, when they treat them as something to visit, then they become static and end up not worth visiting. It’s like a museum you’ve been to before…it gets old pretty quick if the exhibits don’t change. But when people treat web sites like an environment, an ecosystem where human activity occurs, then people come and participate when they need to do the activity, your architecture being a place to do things as opposed to something to look at or experience.
Sep 29
“ I’m Googleable. I’m making my thoughts tangible. Blogging has helped me to understand my job better, and it’s helped me to understand the whole industry better. Thinking, understanding, writing, sharing are all good things. I would encourage every single person to have a blog. […] Life is fleeting. Publish!!
Aug 28
“ In typography neither the old style nor the new style matters; quality does.
Jun 25
“ You could gargle bitumen and bin-juice for half an hour, and it couldn’t leave a nastier taste in your mouth than this macho action thriller
Jun 17
“ media is actually a triathlon, it’s three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share.
“ In this same conversation with the TV producer I was talking about World of Warcraft guilds, and as I was talking, I could sort of see what she was thinking: “Losers. Grown men sitting in their basement pretending to be elves.” At least they’re doing something.
“ 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television
May 09
“ Scaffolding and gradual change are important. As a child, we are told two apples plus three apples is five apples. Later we learn that two plus three equals five; the scaffolding is removed. We must first build the scaffolding but we can remove it later.
May 07
“ Here are some Acid 3 measurements so that we can figure out which browser has the biggest willy.
Apr 29
“ Aperture (and, to a lesser degree, Lightroom) is to Photoshop as a finely honed chef’s knife is to a factory full of circular saws.
