XCD-Design

to promote communication b/n creatives across cultures, & appreciate how #intersectionality impacts our lives #xcd #crosscultural #sustainability #servicedesign

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

@triciawang Oh @triciawang Sending Love and Healing Vibes.💙 Looks like your Appendix has a good sense of timing.... 😅 post CoVID, 21st century tech...

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

@KAnthonyAppiah Just emailed you thoughts about SankofaWiki following the Getty prez. PLMK

[Fred Kent @Fred_Kent]

The humble bench or chair can be a foundation for almost everything that happens in our public spaces, mostly because providing a comfortable place to sit is the starting point for the #sociallife we all crave...
https://t.co/M4d2CVlDgW

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

Iran is the first country outside the US where I ever collected interviews. I remember how nervous I was. This was over ten years ago. There hadn’t been a nuclear deal yet. I didn’t have a ‘fixer.’ I hadn’t even been working long enough to know what a ‘fixer’ was..."

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

@rskwewum @quotesrainsite Thank you! Will be coming to visit soon.

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

@rskwewum @quotesrainsite Thanks for the reply, already bought English version on Amazon. Looking for Hausa translation of the Gawaba book. Does this exist? If so, will contact family in Nigeria to buy. Please confirm.

[Letterform Archive @Lett_Arc]

Marion Bataille, ABC3D, Roaring Brook Press, New York, 2008. @BatailleMarion

[Incunabula @incunabula]

Zoom meeting, circa 1300.

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

@allauthor @rskwewum @rskwewum Read your Story of Gambo Sawaba published by Nyeba Publishing with great interest. Family is asking for a Hausa translation of book. Where/how can we purchase?

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

@rskwewum Read your Story of Gambo Sawaba published by Nyeba Publishing with great interest. Family is asking for a Hausa translation of book. Where/how can we purchase?

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

@simoncharwey @Typegeist_World @ilovetypography @tdcpratt @typedirectors @arabictype @PadiAfrika We’re live as in the website is launched. Please visit https://t.co/pB5GGQMI0d

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

@geotypografika @EdNonStandard @RecRuinLandscp @cle_michon Rudolph: whither errest thou?😂😉

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

#BHM #typematters #xcd #crosscultural #typedesign

[Type Directors Club @typedirectors]

Why is a typeface named Jim Crow?

“It can be easy to think of typography as neutral, disassociated from politics and culture. But of course, typography is made by people, and thus cannot be separated from human history.”

https://t.co/2XTeIQhZDz #typeincontext #typereads

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

@hhpapazian @koeberlin +1 @hrant ! will read the article later... assuming title was meant to be provocative :D

[XCD-Design @XCD_design]

#type #typography #TypeDirectors #TDC

[Typegeist_World @Typegeist_World]

🚨 New article!

The Proof of the Pudding: A Case Study on Reviewing Type, Featuring Noto’s Cyrillics
by @samarskaya

https://t.co/WzgmAixWFy

#typedesign #cyrillictype #fonts

[Type Directors Club @typedirectors]

It's #WorldArabicLanguageDay! Here is one of our TDC Award Winners, HudHud by Maha Akl of Cairo. Her typeface received a 2020 certificate in Typeface Design.
"Hudhud's concept is centred around mixing influences from the two constructions of the Arabic script: Solid and Fluid."