Archive for May, 2005

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The New Freight Family

I heard Joshua Darden speak at SXSW this past February and I was very impressed with him. He is passionate about type and it shows through in the way he talks about it. His passion can also be seen in his newly released Freight type family—a 60 member family!
Type design is a very difficult profession—it […]

Keyword Optimization Gone Wrong

This homepage has 43 instances of the word ‘Vancouver’. To be fair, there is a lot of text on the page, so 43 instances might not seem like much, but have you tried reading it?
My favourite sentence(!) has to be:
4AM Group is a Vancouver web design company that not only services Vancouver and Whistler, British […]

Use the Farm Cuke

Grocery Store Wars from the folks that brought us the Meatrix.

Links of Interest for May 19th 2005

Amazon Diamond Search - Ajax in action, or, “I can’t believe it’s not flash”.
Ultimate Freeride Challenge videos over at Race Face. Joe Perrizo’s backflip off a tree is pretty wild.
The “Peckham Rock” has been found! For the background story, visit Wooster Collective.
DOXA, a documentary and video festival, opens next week in Vancouver. [Thanks for the […]

Backpack is Live

As hinted, 37signals has released Backpack today. I’ve already created my account and so far it seems pretty slick. I imagine I’ll be able to come up with many uses for it.
Also, I guess it’s official, 37signals is a software company now.

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