Post on 01-Nov-2014
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Photo by Matt Jones aka moleitau.
Interfaces are made of words
Carl Collins
Carl is likely to curse.He apologizes in advance if you are offended by his lack of decorum.
Prelude.
Carl Collins@carlrc
At a big digital agency.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
- Ira Glass
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Interfaces are Made of Words
Words
Words
Design
Words
Code
Design
Illustrations
Habits
Letters
Timing
Illustrations
Habits
Letters
Timing
illustrations
Breathless.
I’m sorry this letter is so long, I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
- Anton Chekov
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Short bursts of text are highly addictive, like wordcrack.”
- Erika Hall
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illustrations
Tonalities.
From Hugh MacLeod at gapingvoid.
The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text. Many professional writers use SimpleText or Textedit because these are the only writing programs that are totally distraction free. But text editors are not perfect. That’s why we made Writer.
illustrations
Stringing Us along.
howbigreally.com
illustrations
Formalities.
illustrations
Etc.
Illustrations
Habits
Letters
Timing
You get the skills you use.”
~ Spencer Thursfield
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Habits
Keep the Car Running.
From Hugh MacLeod at gapingvoid.
Habits
Who is doing the talking?
Hello Head Copywriter, let’s be Friends.
Hey, Marketing Director, Um, I’m a little lost. Can you Help Me?
Illustrations
Habits
Letters
Timing
Words
Design
Letters
Words are made of Letters.
Web Design is 95% typography”
- Oliver Reichenstein
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6 different "pe treatments.
Letters
Readability.
Iterating on optimal reading solutions.”
- Craig Mod
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Typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.”
- Matthew Carter
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Dear Designer,How would you Do this?
Illustrations
Habits
Letters
TIMING
Words
Code
TIMING
GRoundHog Day.
TimING
get Over aWkward.
Engineer,Engineer,What can we do?
RemAINDERS.
Words
Words
Design
Words
Code
Design
All of us who do creative work...we get into it because we have good taste.
- Ira Glass
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CONTAINS AT LEAST ONE ACTIVITY.
Alright. That’s Enough out Of Me.
Thanks.
You’re THe Best.
postscript
Points of Reference.
Punctationby Brendan Dawes