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Personally, I don’t care for ampersands. Too fanciful, maybe? Regardless, Hoefler & Frere-Jones (there’s that ampersand again) have an ampersand-history-riddled post on their site, typography.com. You can read about (and see) the different typographic properties of ampersands in different fonts at “Our Middle Name.”

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GoLive has GoneDead

Do you use GoLive? Probably not, but if so, then it’s time to start using something different. The demise of Adobe’s GoLive (finally) has been widely reported, but for the brief scoop read Macworld’s “Adobe discontinues GoLive.”

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Think you know fonts?

If you think you’re up for a challenge, click over to The Rather Difficult Font Game. I thought I knew my fonts but only scored a measly 26 out of 34. I now have to return my font merit badge to the proper authorities.

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Blog recommendation: mStonerblog

I recently returned from the UCDA Design Summit, which was held in Denver, CO, this year.

One of the presenters, Doug Gapinski, the design director at mStoner, spoke about "Branding and Education" ("If your institution was a person, what would the qualities and characteristics of that person be?" Hmmm...) and "User Experience Fundamentals" ("Are your audiences having intuitive and satisfying experiences when dealing with your brand?").

At the end of his presentation, he told us he would post to mStoner's blog and ask us to provide feedback on his talk there.

I just checked out their blog and believe there may be a treasure of relative musings useful for us here at Berkeley. So, check out the blog when you get a chance.

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Oh, by the way, I went to the new wing of the Denver Art Museum (above), which was designed by Daniel Libeskind. I went on an architectural tour before wandering through the floors on my own. The building has no 90% angles; I was amazed by how they solved the problem of hanging art in such a space. Check it out if you're ever in the "mile-high city."

Really clean typography…

…on a Web page.

And, it’s all in HTML and CSS.

That’s right, people. We can have elegant typography on the Web.

I have no idea what this Seed Conference is about, but just looking at their Web page gives me hope for the future of Web design.

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