Kevin Larson, the psychologist of the Advanced Reading Technologies team at Microsoft in Richmond, is determined to improve the onscreen typography. Larson and his team of typographers and computer engineers are testing ways to reduce eye fatigue by designing fonts easier to read and exploring ways to improve reader’s experience for people with visual impairments.
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The city of Denver is considering deaccessioning one of the most ambitious installations at its airport, but its art collection has long served as a source of inspiration and consternation.
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In 1975, a researcher named Steven Sasson, working in a lab at Eastman Kodak, built the first digital camera. Sasson’s vision was clear. He saw the potential: in fifteen to twenty years the technology would be ready to compete against film. But Kodak executives never got behind it. In the years that followed, digital photography blossomed, but Kodak did not—or could not— respond. Digital camera sales overtook film cameras by 2004. Kodak declared bankruptcy in 2012.
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While good typefaces have prodigious families of carefully related styles, some of the best typographybuilds unexpected relationships between unrelated fonts.
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Jonathan Ford, the founding creative partner and CEO of brand design agency Pearlfisher, recently claimed that “designers have become lazy”. It might sound shocking, but with the huge influence of technology, social media and viral trends on designers today, does he have a point?
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