Dan Phiffer builds websites, makes art, and teaches in NYC
The Mac startup sound and Sosumi
A great interview with the former head sound guy at Apple. The intro is in Dutch but the interview itself continues in English.
A gentleman in the comments with a NSFW user icon offers this bit of HTML geekery:
If you look at the Apple’s website source code, the element containing their copyright notice it’s actually called “sosumi”
Link via John Gruber
A brief homage to Franklin Gothicwww.moma.org
Franklin Gothic is the basis of MoMA’s typographic identity. August Hefner found some examples of Franklin Gothic being used at the museum dating back to the 1930s. One of the signs reads:
The public is urgently requested to visit the Galleries in the morning, from 10 to 12 and evening from 8 to 10 in order to avoid congesting the elevator service. If this request is complied with, it will not be necessary to charge admission.
I didn’t realize that the museum’s adaptation of the typeface, MoMA Gothic, was created by the same type designer as the original.
Reading J.D. Salinger under Antarctica
A few days ago I linked to an article on Gareth Long’s lenticular interpretations of 90s era J.D. Salinger book covers.
Due to the visual effect of viewing these from different angles, video does better justice to the works than a sequence of photos. Helpfully, Gareth Long provides such videos on his website. I’ve taken these and, with permission from the artist, edited them into a single clip. I also added a sound track, field recordings taken below Antarctic ice shelfs. The two seemed to fit somehow.
