Another great TED talk, this time by Larry Lessig, Stanford professor and copyright lawyer extraordinaire. You probably don’t know this guy, but if you get the idea behind Creative Commons, you know who Larry is.

It starts a bit slow, but after minute 14, you will consider this video “worth watching”. Larry pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code.

I had so much fun doing Project 5 of Designing with Type, i couldn’t stop exercising and had to assign me some more homework (definitely the first time i am saying something like that about homework).

Project 6 asked me to select a favorite quotation, song or poem and find a way to express the sentiment typographically. Alrighty! Please make sure that you click the image to view it at full size.

The book’s 5th project in Designing with Type is to explore the expressive quality of words through typography: “Select five words and explore their expressive quality by manipulating the letter forms. To achieve the desired effect, avoid simply repeating the words or creating an illustration from the letter forms. This exercise requires manipulating typefaces, styles, sizes, and positions.”

After i saw two “contestants” reveal their works at John’s blog iLoveTypography, and since i was curious in what i could come up with, i sat down and just took the words from Karly, one of the typenuts who shared their results with John. Though i don’t really know where manipulating ends and where illustrating starts, here is my go:
 
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Karly used Garamond, Baskerville, Century and Helvetica, but i decided to use only Garamond and Helvetica, because i can’t stand Baskerville and Century, but that is another story i guess.

I am unfuckingbelievable curious what “the judges” have to say now. People know me as hard critic, so don’t be friendly, please!