Firefox 3 has some nice web typography features. Unfortunately, it seems to get as much wrong as right. Still, a new prominence of type on the web is approaching.
Jonnie Hallman has created a site that is interesting on a number of levels. First, I love the domain name and the reveling in “seize the day”. Second, his lab is full of beautiful work. Third, he’s build a great Adobe AIR app called DestroyFlickr that really makes Flickr sing. Take a look.
Over the past couple weeks I’ve given a brief presentation about the MDL a couple times. I’m tired of slides and wanted to try something new. Inspired by a presentation I saw that used Vuvox Collage, I created a very wide Pages document and converted it to PDF.
Meanwhile, I was invited to the Collage beta. While I’ve not done anything interesting with it yet, Nathaniel has put together a version of our experience going to the Obama rally last week.
I kind of like these long thin scrolls. I had a few complaints, though, about these as a way to convey professional presentations. A bit dizzying, I believe, maybe a bit unsettling without the bounds of traditional slides. I expect I’ll keep exploring this, more with Collage especially.
Amanda Cox does some great work at the NYT, and this latest visualization of how people voted during the Democratic primary is a wonderful example. It almost feels like you are watching folks rearrange chairs in a room.