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It would be entirely fair to call LoveFrom’s obsessive approach to its serif as ouroboric—a process that goes so deeply into itself that it will always create its own new problem. As Ive holds up the initials SJ set into monumental bronze, he teases how much more complicated the serif becomes when considering its existence in the 3D world.
After Apple, Jony Ive’s LoveFrom Is Doubling Down on Craft in Typeface
fastcompany.com
On July 28, 1993, a group of about twenty people met at the O’Reilly offices in Cambridge to talk about the web. This special event was called the World-Wide Web Wizards Workshop (WWWW) In attendance were a group of the web’s earliest pioneers, including its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, one of its fiercest advocates, Dale Dougherty, and some of the first browser makers, Marc Andreessen and Lou Montulli.
When the Wizards of the Web Met - The History of the Web
thehistoryoftheweb.com
Money is something that people living in specific contexts and circumstances use to buy and sell particular things, create particular relations of credit and debt, and participate in these relations in particular ways. __These transactions are enabled by but not reducible to money’s impersonality__, for the motivations and rationalities that shape them are determined by the transacting individuals’ personal perceptions and desires.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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