Peiran Tan

Sometimes I think about the oldstyle numbers in Mac OS default Avenir Next and it makes me chuckle
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2024-09-04 23:54:14

Posthumanism is basically just 70s Althusser but this time even more gutless

2024-09-04 05:41:40

Modernist design masters be all like “design should be honest” and “how a thing looks should reflect how it’s made” so like, all software companies should just ship their company org chart???

2024-08-27 21:16:53

Funny how the SV web design avant garde position has turned from “we despise graphic design classics” to “we love graphic design classics”

2024-08-24 06:56:58

a style can never be truly appreciated unless stripped of its ideological potency

2024-08-24 05:10:36

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@npub19lw…72hg …in that it prices healthcare to not within reach?

2024-08-24 05:10:36

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@npub19lw…72hg …in that it prices healthcare to not within reach?

2024-08-19 04:29:14

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there’s also this sense of rushed negativity in the early modern that has simply dissipated as the world set into its new order for the lates

2024-08-17 20:06:49

your animation curve is quadratic
my animation curve is G2 continuous
we're not the same

2024-08-16 10:26:21

early modern > late modern in that it has that sense of silent, even mystic at times unreadability, aka it has more je ne sais quoi

2024-08-12 01:05:55

“rot”, what a succinct term

2024-08-02 09:55:53

Bloomberg just released an interactive dataviz piece on the H1B visa lottery and laid out how Indian outsourcing firms abuse it. Funny how I did exactly the same investigation and reached the same conclusions as a class project in 2017.
Still, feels nice to have your college assignment reaffirmed by 1.8 million rows of data obtained by an FOIA lawsuit.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-h1b-visa-lottery-system/

2024-07-31 05:51:28

truly a deep, cruel night, this

2024-07-30 07:51:19

What if we design these AI interfaces around the assumption that every prediction is costly… fun design challenge

2024-07-29 05:05:12

Archetypal object of typography
Feudal society: bible
19th century: posters
Early 20th century: mass paperbacks
Late 20th century: posters again
21st century: exhibition catalogues

2024-07-28 20:18:43

I keep hearing “human in the loop” in all the AI hype but TIL “human in the loop” is actually a military term 😂

2024-07-23 07:13:10

I have a small collection of chaotic evil accelerationist design ideas and was planning to make them as satire, but after a while I realized these are all viable businesses and some of them would probably be YC-fundable… truly talk of losing the critical distance

2024-07-22 06:27:18

nice!
https://cielab.io

2024-07-22 01:08:38

triumphant irony is out… militant seriousness is back in the game

2024-07-20 05:06:15

I sold my 27in monitor and am now exclusively using the built-in 13in screen. It is so freeing

2024-07-19 21:55:26

the future of the revolution is female
the future of the world is transgender

2024-07-17 21:37:07

Designer objects (mugs, stationery etc) are a form of lipstick

2024-07-14 09:48:58

I mean I bought it for 180 but what is this
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2024-07-14 04:37:55

are.na is so fun after a while of not looking at it

2024-07-14 01:12:30

We really are living in a farcical reenactment of the Weimar period

2024-07-13 22:11:05

Rat journal in San Francisco
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2024-07-13 03:22:00

I used to but stopped believing in the pessimism that “graphics no longer contains political content”. Some of y’all haven’t seen how some people trying real hard to censor red triangles and black bars… the triumphant social period where everything was permitted because everything was toothless is slowly coming to an end

2024-07-12 07:18:30

“I’ll just write a short little thing to wrap up learnings from this project”
> plans 15 sections

2024-07-09 17:54:07

The Silicon Valley may not be the most technically innovative but definitely is the most cunning in identifying and occupying the next ideological avant-garde position

2024-07-09 01:56:42

烧钱杀熟 is such a succinct term. “Burn money (to acquire market share) then slaughter the matured livestock (that are the entrapped users)”

2024-07-06 23:35:11

Early OpenAI avant-grade vibes https://sfcompute.com/

2024-07-06 20:31:13

Tfw you realize the CSS word-spacing property is something you can mess with too…

2024-07-02 06:37:41

Footnotes issue E opens with an article on Permanent! Excited to dive in
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2024-06-30 16:35:37

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@npub1pqy…j8e3 likely that the companies mentioned paid for these articles, so they might not even be “journalism”…

2024-06-30 02:59:17

People be like “let’s resurrect the memories of June 1989” and I’m like “dude are you sure you’re ready to face the dead that you resurrect”

2024-06-26 08:10:11

What people mean when they say “take back control of technology”: RSS, solar panels, DIY computers, building your own site
What I mean when I say “take back control of technology”: armed insurrectionists seizing telecom infrastructure

2024-06-24 05:00:57

Gradient maps very well to paranoia

2024-06-24 03:40:44

Love me some Linotype Baskerville. Still unbeatable
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2024-06-23 06:00:24

Ultrasharp fonts have a conspiratorial dimension

2024-06-22 20:11:08

“Financialization is capitalism’s autumn”… I think about this quote weekly

2024-06-16 16:33:09

oof
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2024-06-16 15:10:18

the speed at which graphic design and fonts cycle their trends is proportional to the speed at which industrial vs financial capital’s investment to return cycles

2024-06-15 07:08:21

this is a particularly good quote from TFJ, on his Exchange font: “I was looking for a more flexible and effective relationship with typographic history, accessing and learning from all of the past, not just the parts which are lucky enough to still be in fashion.”

2024-06-14 07:13:18

I’ve set type for this long and hitting the right spot in the font size / leading combo still remains black magic to me

2024-06-12 01:09:03

Broken brain: mathematical centering
Woke brain: optical centering
Galaxy brain: planning your components in such ways that when mathematically centered, they also look kinda optically centered

2024-06-11 08:06:02

Crazy how the William Morris position can be simultaneously right wing and left wing. On the left you have your common critique of industrialized modernization and on the right you have some nutjob eating raw beef in a forest hut

2024-06-10 23:26:56

OpenAI
PowerBI
CircleCI

2024-06-05 22:07:50

Feat. DJR Fit
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2024-06-03 02:33:50

Come to think of it the Sidewalk Labs project (Google waterfront renovation in Toronto) was more paradigmatic/significant than J thought at the time

2024-05-31 19:00:22

Gradient is the ultimate metaphor of our age

2024-05-30 05:13:23

Independent type design is facing an artistic crisis caused by a cultural speculation market that is teetering on its brink (which Patrick Schumacher correctly identified in his albeit disingenuous critique of the Venice Biennale)

2024-05-29 04:13:19

One thing I noticed is type designers are most successful when they unconsciously or unwittingly get dragged into cultural exchange. When they intentionally wanna do it it always feels a bit short

2024-05-29 04:13:19

One thing I noticed is type designers are most successful when they unconsciously or unwittingly get dragged into cultural exchange. When they intentionally wanna do it it always feels a bit short

2024-05-28 06:12:45

UI and web design are converging towards the same set of lowest-cost, most content-agnostic patterns, like sidebar navigation or horizontal scrolled section of blocks…

2024-05-26 23:23:50

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@npub19lw…72hg Aesop claiming Optima was one of the most cunning art direction moves I’ve ever witnessed (and a Bitstream version too!)

2024-04-30 06:53:57

Demystification Committee on Modes of Criticism… two of my fav things colliding
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2024-04-27 07:56:03

Good design is essentially ZIRP. Last time it at least happened on the back of concrete profits; this time it happened literally on money borrowed from the future

2024-04-27 04:06:38

It just occurred to me the crazy thing about Chinese social media… you’ve seen Twitter and Facebook but have you seen social media platforms where the platform shows you in your chat list and ad for its own predatory lending product

2024-04-21 08:38:22

Museum of Modern Art in Caracas (not realized) by Oscar Niemeyer
Wow
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2024-04-20 07:18:44

I just thought it’s so funny that Arc’teryx is in fact a Chinese company whose headquarters are based in Hangzhou

2024-04-19 05:30:23

So OK-RM was indeed founded in 2008… 2008, what a year

2024-04-17 19:58:34

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@npub1z97…m9q7 I think the problem is if you want to talk about the real design history a lot of people suddenly get pissed

2024-04-15 17:48:28

https://abcdinamo.com/news/gramercy-our-beautiful-dynamic-serif-wins-best-in-show
“Ultrasharp” fonts take 3

2024-04-11 00:39:52

In a way the 90s graphic design metanarrative is really just “the signage typography got nicer but the train ticket also got pricier”

2024-04-09 14:48:14

Hahahahaha omg
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2024-04-08 20:50:01

Indie type vs Monotype
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2024-04-08 17:50:29

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@npub1j2c…gwzk question is how far down you trace 😛

2024-04-06 09:29:16

Dropbox Paper is still the GOAT for online doc editors in 2024 imo. Come to think of it, using Atlas Grotesk for their entire GUI was also so peak 2010s…

2024-04-06 09:08:17

Dusting off this old project… doing the write-up for it is probably the most emotional part of redoing my site
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2024-04-04 19:29:24

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@npub1g83…dsge different game they playing

2024-04-03 06:53:51

We live in perverse times and so we adore perverse images

2024-03-30 17:14:54

Indie software is probably the most anti Silicon Valley practice there is

2024-03-29 17:43:49

A lot of high modernist designs are basically reprimanding you for your bad taste and at the same time asking for money

2024-03-24 21:13:09

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@npub18fu…zke8 academia and galleries mostly

2024-03-24 06:44:38

it just occurred to me… what we might’ve witnessed a couple years prior was the starting collapse of the cultural-curatorial market forcing some of its luckier participants into the tech sector

2024-03-24 06:44:38

it just occurred to me… what we might’ve witnessed a couple years prior was the starting collapse of the cultural-curatorial market forcing some of its luckier participants into the tech sector

2024-03-24 05:45:33

Reject modernism
(the White City kind)

2024-03-22 06:46:33

It feels nuts to say, but Frutiger is the kind of font that, once you get a hang of how it behaves, will literally drive your entire layout into an single, clear, and inevitable end state. It’s so coherent and impeccably well executed that there really “is only one way to do things” if you follow what it asks. I've never felt something like it in other fonts before.

2024-03-20 16:17:04

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@npub1g99…rlmh hahahaha more or less yea. Carlo Scarpa keeps coming to mind

2024-03-20 07:06:17

In terms of UX/product design I feel like we’re right heading towards the late 80s in industrial design terms

2024-03-20 05:45:17

FF Meta against Helv/Univers was the European version of Scar Literature in China

2024-03-20 01:42:33

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@npub1z97…m9q7 if Koloman Moser had been born in 1997!

2023-07-28 22:12:11

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@npub1xqv…230r or we can continue using tweet-related terminology as if the rebrand never happened 😝

2023-07-25 00:44:40

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@npub19qm…sn8k dude you work for Facebook