is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe, Design Chair at Wildcard and co-founder of Kidpost. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired by Etsy, Inc.), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children. Refer to the advertising and sponsorship page for inquiries.
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A superb, engrossing, sixteen-minute documentary about the multi-generational tradition of hand-painted signs in Dublin, Ireland and the men who still brave cold, rain and terrible parking to carry it forward. The word “typography” isn’t uttered once (or I didn’t catch it, anyway), which says something about how these practitioners think about their work: it’s a craft steeped in hard-earned, manual skills — not a rarefied technical discipline. The movie is also rich with examples of the many beautiful hand-lettered signs throughout Dublin. Well worth a watch.
A lot of those signs are also captured on this Flickr account. Thanks to Brendan Redmond for the tip.
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