Bianca Aguilar
- “We often think about the PhD as a mechanism for creating more just futures -- and a more just world,” said Rodgers, who earned her doctorate at the University of Southern California. “It’s one of the most creative and impactful fields that you can go into.”
- So why do runners have limits? And why do the limits differ from one person to the next? In part, it's because of physiological factors: blood oxygen levels, lactate, muscular strength, each of which has a genetic component. But there's another theory, put forward by a sports physiologist named Tim Noakes. As he puts it, in what he calls the centra... See more
- I USED TO think of athletic ability as a mountain. You're born at the base, and you'll die there too. In between, you climb higher and higher until you begin to descend. But that analogy isn't quite right, because as you get older you acquire wisdom that can help you train. I've come to realize that a better analogy is of rolling peaks. You go up, ... See more
“Digital universalism ” is the pervasive but mistaken framework shaping global imaginaries around the digital that presumes that a single, universal narrative propelled by “centres” of innovation can accurately represent the forms of digital development unde
rway across the globe today.
from Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism by Anita Say Chan
Using Minecraft’s building blocks, community groups design a virtual public space, later made into concrete reality. From parks to beaches and even streets themselves, these spaces are a key indicator of the health and sustainability of cities. “If made safe, accessible, and welcoming, they can be drivers of civic cohesion, biodiversity, li
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Typography is a tool, Hui said, but not just for displaying words. Type reflects culture and influences it. “Chinese trends have always lagged by 10 years,” Hui said. “I really want to help the Chinese scene to catch up to the Western or Japanese visual language and culture. I hope Chinese will.”
from Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts by Brian Ng
“If you have to explain why a typeface is beautiful, then it isn’t.”
from Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts by Brian Ng
Hui, who previously designed the New York Times’ Chinese logo and a custom typeface for tech giant Tencent, believes that Chinese type design has become stagnant and unoriginal. Most of the fonts on the market have gone through a process of convergent evolution to become blocky and conventional. “There’s no emotion behind them,” Hui to
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Hui said that the point of the project is not just an exercise in aesthetics, but an attempt to “decolonize” Chinese type. He intends to take it back to its roots before the influence of Japanese designers, and to free it from the cultural gravity of the mainland, where even typefaces come under the purview of the state. His research and dedicatio
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