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Growth of the NYC Subway
Here’s a link to an animated map that shows the growth of the NYC subway over time, from Appealing Industries Appealing Industries (via Spacing Toronto). Unfortunately there’s no time legend, which would have seemed like a no-brainer to include. Still a very interesting animation, though. And if you want to see about eleventy billion more maps from throughout the history of the NYC subway, go here.
Found on The Map Scroll
Google Latitude Location History
When I was a little kid, I always imagined that, after we die, we’d have the opportunity to visit a pavilion in heaven that traced a line through all our travels on earth. Google Latitude’s Location History can now do this, for one-month periods. It tracks your phone’s GPS signal along with stops along the way. And while this may be a little invasive from a Big Brother standpoint, it’s also quite helpful to notify friends and family of your impending arrival and track a missing or stolen cell phone to it’s current location.
Above, you can see a recent road trip to Michigan with a brief overnight stop in Ohio. The frequency of the dot seems fairly random but factors in speed, signal strength and delays. My five-hour traffic jam outside the Poconos is clearly present by a cluster of rather impatient looking dots. You can also see a kopse of dots denoting my meandering through Kalamazoo, my final destination. Keep in mind this journey retraces into itself for both legs of the trip. In this view, it’s difficult to tell which dot is for the westward vs. the eastward leg. Maybe the next version of Google Latitude Location History will overlay time.
Font Shop: Top 100 Fonts of All Time
Below are Font Shop’s Top 100 Fonts of Al Time, as rated by an international jury. If I have time and/or motivation, I’d link each of these. Sadly, at this point in my life, I do not.
Rank | Font Name | [Date Designed – Designed By]
1. Helvetica [1957 – Max Miedinger]
2. Garamond [1530 – Claude Garamond]
3. Frutiger [1977 – Adrian Frutiger]
4. Bodoni [1970 – Giambattista Bodoni]
5. Futura [1927 – Paul Renner]
6. Times [1931 – Stanley Morison]
7. Akzidenz Grotesk [1966 – Günter Gerhard Lange]
8. Officina [1990 – Erik Spiekermann]
9. Gill Sans [1930 – Eric Gill]
10. Univers [1954 – Adrian Frutiger]
11. Optima [1954 – Hermann Zapf]
12. Franklin Gothic [1903 – Morris Fuller Benton]
13. Bembo [1496 – Francesco Griffo]
14. Interstate [1993 – Tobias Frere-Jones]
15. Thesis [1994 – Lucas de Groot]
16. Rockwell [1934 – Frank H. Pierpont]
17. Walbaum [1800 – Justus Walbaum]
18. Meta [1991 – Erik Spiekermann]
19. Trinité [1982 – Bram De Does]
20. Din [1926 – Ludwig Goller]
21. Matrix [1986 – Zuzana Licko]
22. OCR [1965 – American Type Founders]
23. Avant Garde [1968 – Herb Lubalin]
24. Lucida [1985 – Chris Holmes / Charles Bigelow]
25. Sabon [1964 – Jan Tschichold]
26. Zapfino [1998 – Hermann Zapf]
27. Letter Gothic [1956 – Roger Roberson]
28. Stone [1987 – Summer Stone]
29. Arnhem [1998 – Fred Smeijers]
30. Minion [1990 – Robert Slimbach]
31. Myriad [1992 – Twombly & Slimbach]
32. Rotis [1988 – Olt Aicher]
33. Eurostile [1962 – Aldo Novarese]
34. Scala [1991 – Martin Majoor]
35. Syntax [1968 – Hans Eduard Meier]
36. Joanna [1930 – Eric Gill]
37. Fleishmann [1997 – Erhard Kaiser]
38. Palatino [1950 – Hermann Zapf]
39. Baskerville [1754 – John Baskerville]
40. Fedra [2002 – Peter Bil’ak]
41. Gotham [2000 – Tobias Frere-Jones]
42. Lexicon [1992 – Bram De Does]
43. Hands [1991 – Letterror]
44. Metro [1929 – W. A. Dwiggins]
45. Didot [1799 – Firmin Didot]
46. Formata [1984 – Bernd Möllenstädt]
47. Caslon [1725 – William Caslon]
48. Cooper Black [1920 – Oswald B. Cooper]
49. Peignot [1937 – A. M. Cassandre]
50. Bell Gothic [1938 – Chauncey H. Griffith]
51. Antique Olive [1962 – Roger Excoffon]
52. Wilhelm Klngspor Gotisch [1926 – Rudolf Koch]
53. Info [1996 – Erik Spiekermann]
54. Dax [1995 – Hans Reichel]
55. Proforma [1988 – Petr van Blokland]
56. Today Sans [1988 – Volker Küster]
57. Prokyon [2002 – Erhard Kaiser]
58. Trade Gothic [1948 – Jackson Burke]
59. Swift [1987 – Gerald Unger]
60. Copperplate Gothic [1901 – Frederic W. Goudy]
61. Blur [1992 – Neville Brody]
62. Base [1995 – Zuzana Licko]
63. Bell Centennial [1978 – Matthew Carter]
64. News Gothic [1908 – Morris Fuller Benton]
65. Avenir [1988 – Adrian Frutiger]
66. Bernhard Modern [1937 – Lucian Bernhard]
67. Amplitude [2003 – Christian Schwartz]
68. Trixie [1991 – Erik van Blokland]
69. Quadraat [1992 – Fred Smeijers]
70. Neutraface [2002 – Christian Schwartz]
71. Nobel [1929 – Sjoerd de Roos]
72. Industria [1990 – Neville Brody]
73. Bickham Script [1997 – Richard Lipton]
74. Bank Gothic [1930 – Morris Fuller Benton]
75. Corporate ASE [1989 – Kurt Weidemann]
76. Fago [2000 – Ole Schafer]
77. Trajan [1989 – Carol Twombly]
78. Kabel [1927 – Rudolf Koch]
79. House Gothic 23 [1995 – Tal Leming]
80. Kosmik [1993 – Letterror]
81. Caecilia [1990 – Peter Matthias Noordzij]
82. Mrs Eaves [1996 – Zuzana Licko]
83. Corpid [1997 – Lucas de Groot]
84. Miller [1997 – Matthew Carter]
85. Souvenir [1914 – Morris Fuller Benton]
86. Instant Types [1992 – Just van Rossum]
87. Clarendon [1845 – Benjamin Fox]
88. Triplex [1989 – Zuzana Licko]
89. Benguiat [1989 – Ed Benguiat]
90. Zapf Renaissance [1984 – Hermann Zapf]
91. Filosofia [1996 – Zuzana Licko]
92. Chalet [1996 – House Industries]
93. Quay Sans [1990 – David Quay]
94. Cézanne [1995 – Michael Want, James Grieshaber]
95. Reporter [1938 – Carlos Winkow]
96. Legacy [1992 – Ronald Arnholm]
97. Agenda [1993 – Greg Thompson]
98. Bello [2004 – Underware]
99. Dalliance [2000 – Frank Heine]
100. Mistral [1953 – Roger Excoffon]
Graphic Design Favors
Thanks to Swiss-Miss for pointing this lovely poster to my attention. I sorta feel that it’s a trend in my posts for 2009. Here’s to 2010 being a better year for the freelancer!
reCaptcha Hacked on Time Inc. Poll
This morning Time.com published the final result for their annual TIME 100 Poll. Time reports that the new owner of the title ‘Worlds’s most influential person, is moot’. What TIME doesn’t say is that their poll was so totally manipulated that the results of the poll are not an indication of who is the most influential, but instead they stand as a monument to Time’s incompetence.
Read the original and in-depth article on MusicMachinery.com:
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/
And naturally/ironically, if you have any comments, please enter them below and don’t forget to enter the reCaptcha. 🙂
Let Him Retrogress
I started writing “Let Him Retrogress” while I was dating a theatre major. Consequently, when we broke up I also lost interest in this play.
The Premise
Two couples, growing weary of the stasis of their relationships, react differently. While one couple moves forward with their lives, the other couple moves backward—from the break-up to the day they met—to show how relationships deal with routine.
Download Let Him Retrogress (PDF)
Includes: PDF of Let Him Retrogress, an unfinished play about relationship stasis.