It can be possibly called the next chapter in ESPO’s Love Letters project, Love Letter Syracuse. More information on ESPO’s current work can be found at First and Fifteenth.

Thank you Handselecta.

• Pink Ribbon Lettering [Ministry of Type]
  • “Niels Meulman of Calligraffiti (AKA Shoe) was commissioned to customise a Mercedes-Benz B-Class by the Pink Ribbon Foundation in the Netherlands. The work consists of hundreds of women’s names, representing the Dutch women the foundation works to help, and is a product of Mercedes’ sponsorship of the foundation.”
  Free internet: The librarian’s tale [The Economist]
  • “Almost all of America’s public libraries provide free internet access. Over the past two years, hard-hit Americans have been economising by cancelling their broadband contracts at home and looking to public libraries to fill the gap. At the same time, companies and government agencies are saving money by moving job applications and services online; so a rush of new visitors is arriving at libraries just as the local governments that fund them run out of money.”
  Trap Rooms [BLDGBLOG]
  • “While finalizing my slides for tonight’s lecture at SCI-Arc, I was reading again about one of my favorite topics: trap streets, or deliberate cartographic errors introduced into a map so as to catch acts of copyright infringement by rival firms. In other words, if a competitor’s map includes your “trap street”—a geographic feature that you’ve simply invented—then you (and your lawyers) will know they nicked your data, gave it a quick redesign and tried to pass it off as their own. But this strategy of willful cartographic deception is not always limited to streets: there can be trap parks, trap ponds, trap buildings. And trap rooms. “
  Why art books won’t become e-books any time soon. [Slate Magazine]
  • “Unless you’re very dedicated, and very well-traveled, most of the art and photography you’ve seen has been on the printed page as well. Will these, too, gradually be replaced with e-books? I suspect not, and I certainly hope not, but to understand why, we need to indulge in a little metaphysics.”
  Data Hacks [Jehiah Czebotar]
  • “Data Hacks is a new library we have developed at bit.ly which is a set of command line tools to assist in data analysis.”
  The Graffiti Knitting Epidemic [The Guardian]
  • “A bunch of ‘graffiti knitters’ are on the loose in the UK – hellbent on liberating us from the forces of drabness. Maddy Costa hits the streets with a woman called Deadly Knitshade”

• The Anthropology of Hackers [The Atlantic]
  • “A “hacker” is a technologist with a love for computing and a “hack” is a clever technical solution arrived through a non-obvious means. It doesn’t mean to compromise the Pentagon, change your grades, or take down the global financial system, although it can, but that is a very narrow reality of the term. Hackers tend to value a set of liberal principles: freedom, privacy, and access; they tend to adore computers; some gain unauthorized access to technologies, though the degree of illegality greatly varies (and much, even most of hacking, by the definition I set above, is actually legal). But once one confronts hacking empirically, some similarities melt into a sea of differences; some of these distinctions are subtle, while others are profound enough to warrant thinking about hacking in terms of genres or genealogies of hacking — and we compare and contrast various of these genealogies in the class, such as free and open source software hacking and the hacker underground.”
  He’s a type A (and B, C, D, E … ) personality [The Boston Globe]
  • “Typeface designer Matthew Carter has left his mark on everything from Microsoft to magazines to even, yes, this very section you are reading”

• Map your moves [Moritz Stefaner]
  • “A visual exploration of where New Yorkers moved in the last decade”
  Queens Metropolitan Campus [Pentagram]
  • “…Scher has merged her environmental graphics and painting to create a remarkable new work: a pair of murals at the new Queens Metropolitan Campus in Forest Hills, which includes Queens Metropolitan High School and the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School, a middle school.”
  London Design Festival Debate: Products, People and Punk [Guardian]
  • “London design festival director Ben Evans takes on the curator of the Anti-Design festival, Neville Brody, to debate the state of British design with guardian.co.uk’s arts editor, Andrew Dickson”
  Interview with Massimo Vignelli [Design Observer]
  • “So what is design all about? It is to decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world. It is to make the world a better place to be. But everything is relative. There is a certain amount of latitude between what is good, what is elegant, and what is refined that can take many, many manifestations. It doesn’t have to be one style. We’re not talking about style, we’re talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.”
  What does the filler text “lorem ipsum” mean? [The Straight Dope]
  • “Lorem ipsum is the beginning of a pseudo-Latin passage commonly used as placeholder text when a graphic designer dummies up a page layout. It’s intended to show how the type will look before the copy is available…Lorem ipsum was part of a passage from Cicero, specifically De finibus bonorum et malorum, a treatise on the theory of ethics written in 45 BC. “

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Thank you Swiss Legacy.

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