Geek girl chronicles of a blog design enthusiast.
General Store When I was at Trader Joe’s today, I heard a mom tell her active and vocal kid, “Quietly does it…” I don’t think her son took her seriously, but I thought “Quietly does it” was rather catchy and would fit well into my tutorial showing how to do a letter-insert-thingy that I’ve noticed [...]
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photos by Our City Lights — used with permission. I first heard this song by The Ink Spots when I visited Kaweco’s website. The song was on auto-play and auto-repeat, which was annoying at first. But I lingered on the site anyway because I was reading about the pencils I had received from JetPens. Eventually, [...]
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(Average Magazine) I bought a copy of Average at Green Apple Books. What attracted me to it was the word “average”. I thought, What the hell? Just average? So I flipped through it, and unlike most of the magazines I’ve purchased and loved, Average wasn’t trying to sell me anything beautiful, shiny, or perfect. No [...]
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I’m reading A Moveable Feast and I’m at the part where Hemingway describes his writing process. One of the things he talks about is how he deals with writer’s block. I like his solution. ∴ fonts ∴ Helvetica Light & Bold (OSX system fonts) Futura Medium (OSX system font)
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I have two issues of Lula Magazine, #8 and #13 — they’re really hard to come by here in California. Along with the great photos and layouts, I love Lula’s creative use of fonts in Issue #8, especially the title font. Its name is Kursivschrift. Admittedly, Lula has added decorative serifs to the capital …
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I’ve been watching the PBS American Masters documentary about Woody Allen and I’m enjoying the heck out of it. Manhattan is one of my all-time favorite films. And how about Hannah and Her Sisters? He’s made so many good, thoughtful movies, though I’m not always crazy about his “funny” movies. I am looking forward to [...]
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