As some of you might know, the love for cycling is really strong in Belgium. It's something that really lives here, it's part of who we are, the people, the heroism… A great subject to do something with. The love of sports can be a great story teller and the best way to do that is still a book imho.
Somewhere around Spring 2007, the author
Ethan Bodnar contacted several artists, illustrators and designers who are either well-known or up-and-coming creatives from all over the world. He had the idea to let each one of them work on a creative task that is different from their own typical work. And so he also contacted me with the question whether I would be interested in joining his creative grab bag book project...
This book,
Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, is all about innovative and effective CSS techniques to improve the user’s experience using a transitional approach we call
progressive enrichment. Dan’s book explores
CSS3 techniques that work in today’s browsers. This book’s timing is just perfect, as I too believe that it is now time to start experimenting with it…
Christian Schwartz released
Neutraface way back in 2002. It is a beautiful, elegant sans serif typeface collection that reminds me a bit of art deco poster designs. Its pure linear geometry, together with the low waist in its original version, is what sets this typeface apart. According to Schwartz, Neutraface was an ambitious project; his goal was to design the most typographically complete geometric sans serif family. The type appeals to me on many levels and I thought it would be a perfect fit with the style that I had in mind for this blog...
