We have a million fonts, a million colors, and a million piles of shit leaving our fingers all day long. It’s just sad to me, because when you look at this [vintage ephemera], it’s just about communication. One font and a thing called hierarchy. - http://alexcarpenter.tumblr.com/post...
Typography in practice is not choosing fonts or making fonts, it’s about shaping text for optimal user experience. - http://alexcarpenter.tumblr.com/post...
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. - http://alexcarpenter.tumblr.com/post...
Here is simple and brilliant solution, harnessing new media to hear what customers are saying about your menu.
Engage with your customers any way possible. - http://alexcarpenter.tumblr.com/post...
He said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait. It’s perfectly healthy — encouraged, even — to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today. - http://alexcarpenter.tumblr.com/post...
jackcheng: Lately I’ve been taking pictures of ads in New York subway stations and using bits and pieces of these ads to compose short visual poems. I’ve set up a tumblr blog to collect some of these poems, called Subway Cento. A couple of my favorites so far are the one shown above, along with distillation and Popmoney. A cento is a poem made... - http://alexcarpenter.tumblr.com/post...
bestmadeco: Your First Knife You never really forget your first knife. It’s surely a rite of passage for many. To be given an object that could be so useful and dangerous is both empowering and scary in turns. Thinking of what you’ll be able to do with it. Wondering how sharp it really is. Whittling your first ‘stick.’ While those feelings become... - http://alexcarpenter.tumblr.com/post...
Change is important. When we were growing up, we got summers off from school. Summer vacation was change. It was something to look forward to. A few months of something different really meant a lot. We grow out of a lot as we grow up. One of the most unfortunate things we leave behind is a regular dose of change. Nowhere is this more evident than... - http://alexcarpenter.tumblr.com/post...