Out with the new, in with the old

The ever-interesting Brand New blog introduces the new Coke can. It takes guts to reverse the trend of continually adding swooshes, bubbles, drop shadows, et al, and Coke have pulled this one off to perfection. Beautiful.

FontSugar

Ray Larabie makes fonts. He gives a lot of them away for free. He has a new website: FontSugar

Hard to alter

Erik Spiekermann has an interesting post about a new typeface used by the German government on car numberplates. It has a specific design goal: make it difficult to alter any character to look like another. (E.g. convert a C into an O with black paint.)

Lightroom Updated to v1.1

Update: Computer Darkroom provides comprehensive coverage of the new features.

James Duncan Davidson has a good overview of the new features in Lightroom. Mikkel Aaland also summarises what’s new. I’ve just had a play with the new sharpening option and it’s much, much better than version 1, here’s hoping the other tweaks are as good!

You can download the v1.1 updater here.

Normal service will resume shortly…

After an extended hiatus, I’m going to start blogging again. You think hardly anyone looks at your site, then you get one nice comment and it makes it worth it. Thanks swissmiss!