Monthly Archives: August 2008

Whose Gara­mond is it anyway?
If you flick through various foundry cat­a­logs for a Gara­mond revival or adap­tion, you’re prob­a­bly bound to dis­cover more than garalde type­faces. Inter­spersed amongst the many Gara­monds by Claude Gara­mond (or Gara­mont) you’ll find baroque faces works by another type designer, Jean Jannon…
I wanted to cover this little typo­graphic affair but quickly found […]

Yesterday’s entry regard­ing the great Aus­tralian Fire­wall was prob­a­bly less inter­est­ing for anyone outside of Aus­tralia. The post was the result of a quick letter of concern that needed writing and con­se­quently pub­lish­ing (it’ll prob­a­bly do more good online than in the inbox of the Min­is­ter I sent it to). That out of the way, […]

Part of the hot-​air during the Aus­tralian 2007 Federal Elec­tions was the issue of Inter­net content fil­ter­ing, which I waved off as just what I thought it was—hot-air—designed to impress and hope­fully secure votes. The idea was shot down then and quickly was left alone … until now. Ashley Kyd drew this to my atten­tion […]