John Rushing

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Graphic designer, lettering artist, foodie, fancy drinker, and proud citizen of New Orleans.
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Poster of Kyiv Book Fair 2023.

#ukraine

Some @FontsInUse reading for the 4th of July …

On the typography of the first printing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (a.k.a. the Dunlap Broadside), 1776:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/1666/the-dunlap-broadside

And the first printing of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass, 1852:
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/34163/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july

The Dunlap Broadside

When you’re charged with the first printing of the Declaration of Independence, there isn’t much time for fussing with the type.

Fonts in Use
Eh, ok, I give up. Here's what the guy said:

"I was an intern at SpaceX years ago, back it when it was
a much smaller company - after Elon got hair plugs,
but before his cult of personality was in full swing. I have
some insight to offer here.

Back when I was at SpaceX, Elon was basically a child €
king. He was an important figurehead who provided the
company with the money, power, and PR, but he didn't
have the knowledge or (frankly) maturity to handle day-
to-day decision making and everyone knew that. He was
surrounded by people whose job was, essentially, to
manipulate him into making good decisions.

Managing Elon was a huge part of the company culture.
Even I, as a lowly intern, would hear people talking about
it openly in meetings. People knew how to present ideas
in a way that would resonate with him, they knew how to
creatively reinterpret (or ignore) his many insane
demands, and they even knew how to "stage manage"
parts of the physical office space so that it would appeal
to Elon.

The funniest example of "stage management" I can
remember is this dude on the IT security team. He had a
script running in a terminal on one of his monitors that
would output random garbage, Matrix-style, so that it
always looked like he was doing Important Computer
Things to anyone who walked by his desk. Second
funniest was all the people I saw playing WoW at their
desks after ~5pm, who did it in the office just to give the
appearance that they were working late.

People were willing to do that at Space because Elon
was giving them the money (and hype) to get into outer
space, a mission people cared deeply about. The
company also grew with and around Elon. There were
layers of management between individual employees
and Elon, and those managers were experienced
managers of Elon. Again, I cannot stress enough how
much of the company culture was oriented around
managing this one guy.

Twitter has neither of those things going for it. There is
no company culture or internal structure around the
problem of managing Elon Musk, and I think for the first
time we're seeing what happens when people actually
take that man seriously and at face value. Worse, they're
doing this little experiment after this man has had
decades of success at companies that dedicate
significant resources to protecting themselves from
him, and he's too narcissistic to realize it."
I love Wendy’s raison d’être for the site. So much of this speaks directly to me: https://www.mimeographrevival.com/about/
About – Mimeograph Revival

about the site, the author, and the inspiration for the mimeograph preservation project.

Mimeograph Revival

Spending your time detailing and reporting on every Republican outrage is like following a goose wandering around the house and screaming "Look, LOOK! It did it again!" every time it makes runny green dump.

We KNOW. We have more than enough evidence.

It is time to get a fucking broom and get the goose out of the house.

The #WienerZeitung is not the oldest newspaper in the world, as many today seem to repeat due the final printed version today. In fact, the Swedish "Post och Inrikes Tidningar" is bout 60 years older.

It is correct to say that the Wiener Zeitung is the oldest still running printed newspaper. The "Post och Inrikes Tidningar" changed to online about 15 years ego. #NewsHistory #Kommunikationsgeschichte #MediaHistory

Thinking about the delivery driver who brought our order from Target, saw that it was diapers and baby meds, and knew not to ring the doorbell. Empathy and professionalism, not to mention personal experience, I'm sure. 💯❤️

Y'all are chasing working artists away from this place by harping on how "sad" and "pathetic" it is for them to hope for a large follower count here.

It's not about attention. It's about their bottom line. More followers means more commissions, more customers in their online shops, more direct exposure to people with hiring power. It's honestly really cruel to keep acting like they want adulation when really they just want to pay rent.

They have ample reason to mourn what they built.

Don't make them like this anymore...