Damian’s notes

Typeface based on the Doves Press metal type, clandestinely thrown in to River Thames in 1917 and largely recovered from river almost 100 years later. Interested to see the display variant is based on the metal type itself and the text variant on the softer, slightly heavier shapes made on the paper in letterpress printing.

The 3D-Printed fashion of Sophy Wong on Adam Savage's Tested YouTube channel.

A 4-part documentary from NHK World-Japan about the creative process of Miyazaki Hayao, the legendary Japanese filmmaker and co-founder of Studio Ghibli.

I’m working on adding image descriptions to the app I use to post to Mastodon, which is to say I have just spent the morning upgrading the kernel of my Linode instance to 64-bit so I can upgrade Ubuntu so I can upgrade PostgreSQL so I can upgrade Django so I can actually start working on adding the new features.

In the meantime, apologies for the lack of alt text on my posts.

Takahē: A new ActivityPub server, written in async Django. Still in early stages but I find the outline of the architecture interesting in how it contrasts with what has become conventional web-app design.

Printing Films: an archive of industrial films about printing, typography, & journalism. Including ‘Farewell etaoin shrdlu’, about the last night of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times.

Specimen Books of Metal & Wood Type is a catalogue of digitized typeface specimens available online from various institutions. I didn’t know there were specimens dating as far back as 1567!

I’ve built my third Quefrency keyboard, but alas! for the first time managed to break a kit while building it. Luckily the affected keys are ones I don’t normally use, but I am sad not to have a perfect build to show off. 🥲

The Teenage Engineering Choir is a collection of eight stylized wooden dolls, each with its own voice and vocal range. They can perform solo or in groups, and can be controlled via MIDI over Bluetooth LE.

They don't have a permanent page for this: it’s on their home page.