Tim Brown, organized

☀️ August 9th.

Christopher Alexander, The Process of Creating Life: You know the feeling which the thing will have.

My pal Matt Colyer recently explained how to use ChatGPT’s 4o model to craft a sophisticated, information-dense prompt to then pass to the o1 model — which can in turn provide rich responses.

Today I learned that Pableaux Johnson has passed away, so in his memory I’m sharing with you a recipe he gave me — you’ll love it, even if you never cook this dish.

Growing up, Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) had always intrigued me.

🎙️ Notes from Practicing Typography 003: Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: All devices need to interact.

Introducing Typography Advisor.

🎙️ Notes from Practicing Typography 002: Laura Kalbag, Accessibility for Everyone: Empathy is the ability to share the feelings of others.

Hey, I started a podcast. 10m long, super casual, may not keep it up.

Originally published in 2018, Flexible Typesetting has sold thousands of copies and given a new generation of designers fresh mental models to craft meaningful, multidimensional typography.

🪕 May 25th.

🌷 May 3rd.

As I mentioned in a recent interview, inventing typographic intelligence technologies is what I do at work.

Now in my mid-forties, I increasingly appreciate time spent with my spouse, children, siblings, and parents.

Adding a couple more sites to the blogroll: Ethan Marcotte coined the term Responsive Web Design and, more importantly, continues to teach people that it’s more than a technique — it’s an ethos.

🌲 January 25th.

Bertrand Russell, How to Grow Old: An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls.

Rick Rubin interviewing Daniel Kaluuya: DK: The junction nature of London is London.

I recently recorded a short video series that Adobe is now releasing on YouTube as part of the Foundations of Graphic Design series.

For many years I’ve been a happy You Need A Budget customer, and as we head into 2024 it continues to be an important part of my financial strategy.

🎄 December 29th.

Rick Rubin, interviewing Arnold Schwarzenegger: RR: When you list the great directors that you worked with, if you think of each of them, would you say there are any qualities that they all shared?

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami.

Thanks to Veronica Lewis for tips on alt text for comics.

I’m fortunate to work with an excellent manager.

Jane McGonigal, Imaginable: This is how you become a pioneer.

Jody Rosen, The Genius of Lionel Messi Just Walking Around: If you ask any astute observer – an experienced coach or player or tactically tuned-in analyst – how to understand the game, they will advise you to take your eyes off the ball.

🍂 December 17th.

Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Solution: Instead of asking what their company does best today, managers should ask, “What do we need to master today, and what will we need to master in the future, in order to excel on the trajectory of improvement t…

Robin Rendle, The Next Wild Thing: Making something as good as this requires an especially rare quality from a multi-billion dollar company though: you have to trust your employees to go find that thing.

Brad Frost recently highlighted his old gold about personal branding: Jobs, technologies and trends come and go, but you as an individual remain. (...)

Flexibility causes pressure that makes layouts look bad.

The reason that black people are in the streets has to do with the lives they’re forced to lead in this country.

Recently I asked these questions on Twitter: Are you designing with variable fonts?

This week, educators can get a free ebook version of Flexible Typesetting, plus an invitation to the private Slack group where readers and I share ideas about lesson plans.

Adding a couple more sites to the blogroll: Chen Hui Jing has a finger on the pulse of web design, consistently sharing interesting news and resources — with a recent focus on East Asian typography and layout.

Teachers on my new book, Flexible Typesetting: An outstanding text if you want to learn how to set harmonious text both on the web *and* print. 10/10 — Thomas Jockin Students, designers, developers, and even the most seasoned typographers will gain insigh…

Wrote this on September 3rd, then got so busy I forgot to post it: I just returned to my desk after my first Adobe sabbatical — four weeks' time off for having worked at Adobe for five years.

It isn’t entirely comfortable yet, but I believe I now have a way to easily write and publish this site’s Jekyll-based posts from iOS — without writing code or actually running Jekyll.

Five minutes ago, to my embarrassment, I realized that the ladder analogy I used in Flexible Typesetting was based on Frank Chimero’s ladder analogy from The Shape of Design.

For many years, Twitter felt like an amazing place to share what I was doing, to meet new people, and to help spread positive energy and good ideas.

When I’m preparing a new talk for speaking engagments, it often begins as a messy process.

Some Adobe colleagues are prototyping a new tool and taking a fresh look at typographic features, so they asked me and Wenting to help.

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman.

One of the side projects I’m working on is editing and republishing children’s stories by Thornton W.

Thanks to friends and family who worked with me and supported me as I wrote Flexible Typesetting.

I was on standby to do a “spotlight” at Typographics — a quick word at the microphone in between the main conference speakers.

A special quadruple quarterly report (lol).

It is a beautiful book, well-conceived, painstakingly executed with a fine attention to detail.

Oh, I like this RSS Club idea very much.