There are places in the world you will never see, and even if the eyes will, the hands will touch them and the feet will walk near them you will not perceive their reality and you will stand before them and think that you can conceive them for what they are, but that would place you much farther from the truth than you could imagine. Such places do not exist into your world, and the journey required to connect your world and theirs would be too much to take on, the benefits too shallow. Thus, you are shallow, for judging things you cannot see, and it is a shame, as you are constrained by your world to do so and cannot, by any means, act otherwise.

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EDIT: Ok, I did win. Not the book, I will buy it! But I’ve been featured on FontShop, which is a great win by itself. Now I should add FontBook to my wishlist. Oh, and start posting some real stuff. And finish the design.

Instead of thinking about posting some real useful/interesting stuff, I’m populating this website with things that pass. Not that they are not great, because indeed they are. I just need some content to fill this up a bit, so I can finish my design.
I’m waiting for the results of the FontBook competition over at iLT and I think I might win. In the meantime, I won a Helvetica Film DVD copy in a contest on kupuk.com and I want to thank Paul (again). The documentary is great and I will enjoy the extra 90 minutes of interviews.

iLoveTypography is a very interesting blog about type and its numerous faces. Type’s impact in today’s visual culture is rather invisible, though nothing is more ubiquitous, nothing more substantial, more changing than the form and arrangement of letters. Either paper or screen, the way typographers design and use their typefaces defines the space in which we create and distribute our ideas.

This week, iLT has a great contest involving movies and the latest FontBook from FontShop, a 3kg, $100 book of type specimens. The prize: nothing less than a copy of the bible itself: Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style.
Although I was expecting the actual FontBook as a prize, I do appreciate the contest and I can’t wait to see who won. I’m posting my entry in the contest because I have to start this blog some other way than copypasting random snips from project gutenberg.