Fifteen – Pink can be used for good

As a television series, Jamie Oliver (or whoever) had an idea to create a scheme training younger kids and young adults who seemingly have ill futures and transform them into professional chefs, with a future in the food industry. Using his efforts and commitment to spark creativity and enthusiasm for food into these young kids, Jamie nulls the money spent and forgoes his vision.

Now there is 4 locations of ‘fifteen’, originally named for the 15 young trainee’s selected; existing in Amsterdam, Cornwall, London and Melbourne, this is a very serious movement which has taken steam the past couple years.

It’s inspiring in that very way, the ability of those who are passionate about a trade opening up their world and influencing the future.

They have a good site too, and the use of pink and the modern feel overall is completely suitable for this restaurant and its purpose.

Link to the Fifteen Website

Font Hinting Explained (RT erik spiekermann)

Very curious reading I found today in the twitter feed from Erik Spiekermann about Font hinting written by Richard Fink. In short, readability is all about how we perceive a character in a grid of LCD’s. Font hinting is the rendering of the outlines and features of a letter on your screen you view right now and understanding them quickly. This reading gives a useful insight into the differences between TTF, OTF, and CFF in the realm of digital readability.

View it here:
Font Hinting Explained By A Font Design Master.

Browser Pong!?

Browser Pong.

Wow, this is insane! forget flash loading times, Macromedia, Pong using your browser is interesting and pretty fun, actually.

Give it a whirl, some interesting things go on here that make it worth while.

(found via @gracesmith)

Type Inspired Interfaces: Using a type style as your basis for Web

What an interesting article I read today about the minute details of incorporating selected typefaces into your design. This specific article covers the usefulness on the Web with type. Many times most of us will sit in front of a blank white board and wonder what, where do we start? Insight from Dan Mall’s experience is one of the ways to do it, start with the type of course! Personally I will do many different things, depending on what i’m working on. I may need to be immersed in what i’m doing to get a vibe or a inspiration from surroundings, but normally like everyone we’ll just sit and stare picking our brains apart for ideas. So this technique may be useful for those in the future who need a quick, simple, but attentive solution. I like this article, in-fact it’d be useful to show a few people I know.

24 ways: Type-Inspired Interfaces.

There is no page fold. (RT)

Something interesting I found that depicts what the web has turned the standard page fold into. Almost in reality what we sometimes forget the page fold, when reading printed material, the importance, the dividing constant we’ve always known. On the web however, there just is no page fold. There is just this rather large gap of white space as your scroll down, not knowing what is coming next.

Interesting. Check it out.

Please Scroll.

(From @daringfireball via Twitter)