Keith Tam

Typographer, information designer, academic. Vice Principal, Hong Kong Design Institute.

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新一集(in)visible (de)signs經已上架

https://t.co/cEiN1y3Abv

[Keith Tam @keithchtam]

新一集(in)visible (de)signs經已上架

https://t.co/Vpq7R7wRm5

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Episode 8 of (in)visible (de)signs is up, a reading of a blog post titled ‘On journaling’ originally published on 18 April 2022 https://t.co/8dI36aSe4i

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Listen to ‘Heinrich von Kleist: On the gradual completion of thoughts during speech’ on (in)visible (de)signs podcast

https://t.co/KRbUCsqPDZ

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Listen to ‘An ode to books’ on (in)visible (de)signs podcast

The podcast show will build on the ideas discussed on https://t.co/o5BlaKZajq and https://t.co/X4IUwspLNm, on typography, visible language and communication design, in English and Cantonese

https://t.co/XeeAmZW3Uc

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兔躍龍門♦️兔氣揚眉
Wishing you an agile and productive Year of the Rabbit

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Wishing you all a fresh new start and a happy, meaningful and fulfilling 2023

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My former teacher at @BirkenheadSchl Neil Frowe gifted me this book 21 years ago. Neil recruited me to the school’s Publicity Unit six or seven years prior, when I had no clue what ‘desktop publishing’ was. And the rest is history. Thanks Neil!

#ilmigliorfabbro

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It was both a pleasure and a privillage to be on @onthomas_tweet’s Unique Ways podcast. I fielded 20 interesting questions about work, life and meaning. Listen on Apple podcasts https://t.co/6HsMY2aHJo

#uniqueways
#podcast
#praxis
#thirdculture
#inbetween
#design
#typography

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@UAL @ratwoman @csm_news Congrats @ratwoman that’s fantastic news!

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@typeoff I meant ‘pointy’ not ‘poorly’

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@typeoff That poorly bit on the q could pass as an Emigré font from the 1980s/90s. Wonder why it’s not happening in the b

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@hhpapazian 😂

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&+及=

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Couldn’t sleep and wrote this rather random (off-topic?) post in (non)material text https://t.co/7ryjGPyr3j

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New post at (non)material text: Hong Kong-born and bred @metapheric won first prize at the 2021 National Poetry Competition in the UK with his poem Fricatives https://t.co/7A84Skb6Lb

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Happy Year of the Tiger

[University of Reading Special Collections @UniRdg_SpecColl]

Some people say you shouldn’t write in books, but I would tend to disagree. I think the doodles really bring a book to life! (The burning house is a personal favourite) [RESERVE—881.08-ANT]

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Hourly parking straight ahead and on your right? Yes, but it’s a fluke. Those are hour and minute hands! Apparently arrows are not always indexical . . .
#infodesign
#symbols
#arrows

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Have you ever seen radio buttons used in prose before?