ideasphere

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   by ideasphere 3y ago

   They are specifically who I’m defining as flag-in-the-ground types.
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   by ideasphere 3y ago

   Adrian Frutiger was a well-known type designer whose fonts were popular in the era being talked about. It makes sense but I agree that to me, this hyper-specificity and flexing of knowledge on specifics shows that it’s really about the pers
3. 33.▲
   by ideasphere 3y ago

   I agree 100%. Style is important but it’s the personal identification with defining and policing its microscopic fluctuations that ultimately leads nowhere but back at the snakes head. The older I get and the most first-hand experience I ha
4. 34.▲
   by ideasphere 3y ago

   Much like in music, I find this hyper-specific genre-mania is ultimately just tiring. Regressive retromania that leads to pastiche and revivalism at best.
5. 35.▲
   by ideasphere 3y ago

   https://github.com/tldraw/draw-a-ui
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   by ideasphere 3y ago

   Sony released the PCG-C2GPS laptop in Nov 1999 which had a reflective LCD almost exactly like this. The use-case was that you’d primarily use it in your car (during the day) for navigation and want the better battery life by not having a ba
7. 37.▲
   by ideasphere 3y ago

   From a few years back, MySpace too: https://spacehey.com/
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   by ideasphere 3y ago

   This makes me think about this blog post I read once and often think about; looking at the restaurants and clubs featured in American Psycho and “where are they now?” https://www.scoutingny.com/patrick-batemans-new-york-what