In typography, kerning (less commonly mortising) is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result (Wikipedia). Okavango in South Africa is a particularly difficult word to kern correctly,… Read More ›
Elon Musk (one of the most famous South Africans in the world at the moment), called his son this… And, where I come from these kinds of tops are usually worn by surfers or white guys with dreadlocks and thai… Read More ›
My favourite logo and identity designer, Emanuele Abrate (featured before here) has reimagined famous brands as fonts. I have to admit I struggled with Facebook and Netflix. I knew they were familiar, but I just could not get it!
Thank you to Marian C-I for adding this to a comment on my previous blog post. This is an amazing idea! In Sweden they usually just use yellow and black stripey tape! In a coffee shop in Galicia, Spain, they… Read More ›
When I moved to Sweden, the one thing that took a lot of getting used to was the informality and flat hierarchical structure at work. Sweden doesn’t use titles – no Mr, Ms, Doctor, Professor. You just call people by… Read More ›
I love the work of photographer Stefan Draschan – he looks at our world in interesting ways. From people matching museum artworks (none of them staged, just captured with a great deal of patience) and cars matching houses, to people… Read More ›
The biologist Richard Dawkins coined the term ‘meme’ in 1976 to describe ideas that are copied from brain to brain. The term was not widely used until the internet caused memes to become viral in the 1990s. I was thinking… Read More ›
