Luke Tonge

Saw an old guy with the craziest drip today

Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix, stretch and/or squish them.” E.g. Nervous Sans: “Arial is stacked five times, pseudo-randomly twitching out of line.” I quite like Impacter. [bastardica.mitpit.com]

Hey I don't want to be prescriptive, but don't do it that way or any of the other ways you've proposed

"Thoughts?" You don't really want them, I'm too tired to give them. So we're aligned.

IMO, the issue is not the monetary contribution, it's that an awful lot of people conflate fun activities that you do in your spare time as also being the same thing in terms of work, as in - not *real* work Games are enjoyable activities you do on the evenings and weekends with your mates

My 9 games #My9Games my9games.net/en/share/efa...

Rocky Sleep, You Watch, Question? Two-hour video of Rocky from Project Hail Mary sleeping, with the film’s soundtrack playing in the background. [kottke.org]

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The dream: become so successful and well thought of that no one wants to make a movie about you

Impressive things happening in naming nowadays. We're pushing the language to its limits, asking words to describe things they've never described before.

This is a GREAT read. I should probably know all of this because, you know, my job, but I learnt a thing or two.

Loving this timeline of Syd Mead's career, which has a few surprises. 1985: designing for Aliens, Short Circuit, Gundam… and judging Miss USA. www.sydmead.com/timeline

Saw a roadside sign that read "If your office were here, you'd already be at work." Intellectually I get it. Emotionally... I don't know that this is landing as intended.

An excellent piece. (Obviously it ALSO turns the minds of adults to soup)

Have a face-to-face conversation with another person, no phones? You mean like a podcast?

The work of Gérard Miedinger scanned from Graphis 189, 1977 www.designreviewed.com/artefacts/gr... #GérardMiedinger #Graphis #graphicdesignhistory

AI visualization tools can do anything, just add imagination! For example, I could use AI to imagine what "The Odyssey" would look like if Wes Anderson directed it. I could even use AI to imagine what other movies would look like if Wes Anderson directed them.

Games Workshop opening day in Hammersmith, April 1978

Roland Calendar 1960, Roland Offprint, Offenbach, 1959. Illustrated by Klaus Winter + Helmut Bischoff designreviewed.com/the-illustra...

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

this is the new backrooms

BREAKING NEWS: Farage to visit Clacton-on-Sea for second time

Part of my collection of Japanese design magazine, Idea. See my full collection at designreviewed.com/idea/

City of Shadows (1991-94) – incredible long exposures of St. Petersburg by Alexey Titarenko. www.alexeytitarenko.com

This line from widow's bay can be used in so many circumstances.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

"Heyyyy my guy! Saw this article that made me think of you... Got time for a quick catch-up this week??" -- a complete stranger in my LinkedIn DMs

Just turned off AI suggestions in Acrobat. Feeling much calmer, and more at peace with the world. (Acrobat > Preferences > Generative AI)

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

Speechlessified

Latest Eye newsletter, mailchi.mp/eyemagazine/... #graphicdesign #visualculture #typography

"Why Cannes Still Matters," by Someone Going to Cannes

I must be super evolved then because I understand very well that Google is trying to build an agentic wall around the entire internet with the ultimate goal of users paying to access it and data owners paying to contribute to it.

Haha! Everyone involved is thick

it’s almost as if making the search box and the ai box the same box isn’t a great idea, box-wise

Hey I know this is a generalization based on one person's experience (mine), but I'm going to need you to accept it unquestioningly as a meaningful societal/cultural indicator

I don't think the "making up stuff that sounds convincing" machine and the "analysing medical imagery" machine should be the same machine

Sorry I was multitasking, and none of the tasks was this one