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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!
  

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By giizii, November 23, 2008 9:57 am

When I started this blog, Blogger was baby. At the time, I thought will be cool to have mobile device to take photo and publish them somewhere to share – Flickr was not even born then. Was planing to do one myself, but hey, this is fast industry, it was already done.

Just using my Sony Ericsson phone at the time , with only 2mpx camera with VGA lenses, I started the London Today blog using the option you can email photo to it. At the time ahead of time functionality.

Few days ago, I was wearing a Blogger t-shirt, and a friend asked am I fun or a blogger. I am blogger indeed and my primary blog is gz.sunsblog.net (the one you read now), but when I came back on Blogger and saw all my old posts, and finally holding that dream blogging device in my hand, in shape of iPhone, I decided to giv the blog a go again.

And wow, things changed. New web gadgets, advertising made easy using AdSense, all possible global social networking sites offer their own API to do whatever you need to on top of them. Felt easy to set up total new layout, UI is fast and intuitive, you can hook advertising and move on in minutes. Now the last and biggest problem of the all remains – content and visitors.

See you around.

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By giizii, November 23, 2008 1:14 am

On the photo above are Erik Truffaz, French trumpet player and the Indian Project. The gig was great.