Linked List: February 14, 2014

Friday, 14 February 2014

‘Construction Kit Food’ 

This week’s episode of my podcast, The Talk Show, featuring special guest Jason Fried. Topics include 37signals’ decision to rebrand as Basecamp and focus on just one product, aligning customer interests with your business interests, the future of sports broadcasting, the problem with restaurant fajitas, and more.

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iOS Dominates Enterprise Market 

File this one under “Ways that iOS-vs.-Android is not like Mac-vs.-Windows”.

Apple’s 2014 Supplier Responsibility Report 

Honest question: Does any other device maker issue reports like this?

Typeset in the Future: ‘Moon’ 

Two posts in and Dave Addey’s Typeset in the Future is making a play for my favorite website of the year. So great.

Making Signo 

Rui Abreu on the design of his typeface Signo:

At this point I was thinking too much in terms of ‘reverse contrast.’ I was going for a logical, mathematical approach, so my objectives were being reduced to the mere reversal of the conventional ratio between thicks and thins. And sure enough, the results were quite simply ugly letters (not shown here). Reversing the contrast, felt more and more like an arbitrary act, an imposed mathematical inversion of a basic optical principle of letter forms. In Signo, I was trying to find a way to make this feel natural. How could a reverse contrast typeface be designed in a way that felt natural?