All you Wordpress users probably know this already, but I really want to write about it. Wordpress 2.5 is being designed by Happy Cog and will be released shortly. Everybody knows who Zeldman, Santa Maria and Danzico are, so naturally I’m waiting for it like it’s chocolate day. The word is on the streets from before the 19th of March, but well, I don’t care much about the Wordpress dashboard, so I haven’t seen it until today.

Do not fear though, as the new dashboard is one of the neatest features of 2.5. I’d say, it was about time. This, toghether with multi-file uploads, galleries, full-text feeds and cool one-click plugin updates makes the release interesting. But what makes it hot is the fresh take on design. More on this, when it’s done.

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.