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By giizii, December 20, 2008 6:03 pm

On Monday 22/12/2008, I will be part of open discussion about Internet Applications, Web Technologies and Online Advertising. The talk is taking place in Skopje, Macedonia. Organizers are Darko Buldiovski, author and blogger from komunikacii.net – a blog about everything new media in Macedonia, New Media Center and Free Software Macedonia.

We are going to talk about developing web apps and how the latest web technology trends are applied particularly on the Macedonian web market. Also, I will be presenting my view on the online advertising in Macedonia and say a few words what the current state is in my opinion.

The Venue is “The Cultural Center Tocka“. Presentations and discussions start 17:00. Drop by if your Monday evening is not already planned. It will be great to hear different opinions on this topics from local active participants and professionals.

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By giizii, December 16, 2008 8:12 pm

The Type Museum is extraordinary place. Dealing with typography myself on daily basis it was absolutely amazing to see how the colleagues from the past where actually doing their job. To get your designs and layouts out took actually quite machine engineering and crafting and art and passion. WOW!

Just seeing a full working Monotype machine producing metal letter patterns in “run time” was like seeing invention ghost himself telling you a story about purpose of engineering, usability and design.

The work flow:

• You type the copy on a “Monotype Corporation” machine that produces a punch coded card (this is in years just before 1900!!!!)
  

  Monotype Corporation Code Punching Machine

• You put the punch coded paper on the typesetting machine
  
• Machine runs and “reads” the punched code, and blows air trough letter matrix, matrix moves to the recognized letter code to a character previosly typed on the Monotype keyboard, hot metal is injected in to the matrix, releases and goes trough water cooling system and…
  
• … the letter set is lined up on the layout setter!