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Dave Crossland
Dave Crossland
In both typographic and programming circles, I often describe myself as a tourist. I have small coding ability and slight typeface design ability.
But I enjoy typography, and am passionate about software freedom.
I live in Bournemouth, UK, and I do design training and technical consultancy in my local area.
I completed a BA (Hons) Interaction Design degree at Ravensbourne College in 2006.
My design philosophy centers around the parameterisation of design to improve the design process.
I started the Masters programme in Typeface Design at Reading in October 2007.
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15 October 2008, 6:10 pm
Most Orwellian Headline Yet
The Times wins my prize for most Orwellian headline yet: “Bank buyout needed to preserve free market” (Via Mish)...
11 October 2008, 3:46 pm
All WiFI MAC addresses are logged and are used to track you
Skyhook Wireless knows where you are if you use private, WPA encrypted wifi - And the Times is reporting the UK state wants to intercept all emails and phonecalls....
10 October 2008, 5:28 pm
USA Going Under Martial Law
THe USA is gearing up for martial law. I read it on wikipedia so it must be true. (Via RMS, who saw it coming.)...
3 October 2008, 1:02 am
Typographic Jokes
http://type.salsen.com/ is a webapp for submitting and publishing typographic jokes. lol :)...
1 October 2008, 10:18 am
Cloud Computing: Do you trust Amazon?
The Guardian recently posted an article quoting Richard Stallman on cloud computing. If a user wants to use network applications in freedom, they can do their own computing on their own computer with...
23 September 2008, 3:38 pm
Social Colour Tagging for Free Graphic Design Software
Dear Lazy Web: Years ago I made a feature request for Scribus that was implemented really well as the colour wheel :-) Acts As Kuler is a small free web app for making colour palettes, and Cymbolism a...
21 September 2008, 1:07 pm
Olly Rouse, Chef
My friend from high school Olly Rouse is doing a startup as a Chef!...
9 September 2008, 8:41 am
DojoToolkit Smashes EOT Web Fonts With SVG!
Those smart dojotoolkit guys have been thinking about web fonts and come up with some very clever stuff: Web fonts without DRM (that is, without EOT and Flash) and with web standards! :-) There’...
8 September 2008, 7:34 am
Stallman invented Wikipedia
Something not widely recognised that my thesis research turned up is “Stallman invented Wikipedia,” and here’s a video from 1999 showing it: (The caption at the start says 1996 bu...
3 September 2008, 10:24 pm
Tom Lord on Web Advertisers, the New Secret Police
Tom Lord is a total genius, and his posts over on the FSB list this last week have made me want to throw away my thesis and quit the whole game. His analysis is just so much better than mine ever will...
1 September 2008, 6:34 pm
The Effects of Weak Copyleft
<p>I’m trying to wrap my head around embedding, given the <a href="http://typophile.com/node/48971">on-going attempts to make the DRM font format</a> “Embedde...
27 August 2008, 9:33 pm
Type Design in Holland
A very well crafted overview of a year studying type and media in Holland :-)...
20 August 2008, 12:18 pm
Schooling Digital Natives
Pete sent me an interesting link about one of my favourite topics: “school vs internet”. Choice quote: This is just the beginning. The crisis in education we’re seeing today will only g...
16 August 2008, 4:35 pm
Lettersoup Graduation Show Videos
Ricardo has posted two videos of his MA show’s Lettersoup demo (part one, part two) which hints at things to come :-) (youtube-dl is a great tool for saving GooTube videos, because GooTube ...
10 August 2008, 4:43 pm
Lovely Spiro Video by Desino Libre
Desino Libre have published a LOVELY video of Inkscape’s Spiro used for a spot of lettering!...
10 August 2008, 2:58 pm
Gnash as Auto-Updating Firefox Extension
Gnash is now being distributed as a hefty 18Mb Firefox Extension, which wins sensible auto-updating :-)...
7 August 2008, 6:25 am
Mercurial Support Inside FontForge
Max Rabkin writes to the fontforge-users mailing list: “I’ve been using this version-control plugin for some time, and I thought some others might find it useful. It’s quite simple,...
6 August 2008, 1:19 pm
Notes on “Here Comes Everybody” by Conrad Taylor
Been a few years since I hit up Clay Shirky, and he’s better than ever. Totally loved Gin, Television, and Social Surplus and my good friend Conrad Taylor just posted a great summary of Shirky&...
5 August 2008, 1:38 pm
Notes from TUG2008 in Cork: Day 4
2008-07-24 These are rough notes from a public event, and any errors or stupidity should be attributed to me and my poor note taking; I hope these notes are useful despite their obvious flaws, and ev...