Jack Yan on Vox

Pop-up type

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:30:33 +1300

Got in one of these at work. Very clever, and in New Zealand at $32·99 (UK at £9·99). No idea where we’ve put it, mind. Hopefully this means we have given it away to a child. I think our cover might be different, showing all the characters in t...

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Lucire home page evolves

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:53:49 +1300

[Cross-posted at Lucire] Regular readers might notice, if they scroll, a few changes to Lucire’s home page. We’re not Facebook, so the change is designed to be evolutionary and not upset readers who have grown accustomed to where things ar...

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I signed up to Vkontakte.ru

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:43:40 +1200

Today, I decided to join Vkontakte.ru, the Russian rival to Facebook. Facebook is changing its design and some folks pointed out that Vkontakte resembles an old Facebook, so I thought I would give it a try. If anyone wants to friend me there, I am...

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Life in the twenty-ﬁrst century

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:19:38 +1200

When I was a kid, those predicting the future in sci-fi would say we would drive around in tiny cars resembling boxes and they would run on electricity come 2000. The former was right, the latter was not. The Mercedes-Benz A-Klasse was the firs...

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New cars this month

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:18:48 +1200

The new Ford Ka, based on the Fiat 500 platform, looks good, but the other débutante, the Renault Symbol, looks like a Clio that swallowed a Nissan Tiida. I imagine the looks are down to the fact that in some countries, it will be sold as a Nissan...

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How ABC really promoted itself in the early 1970s

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:55:28 +1200

For those who saw my earlier post on the ABC retro-style promo—and the discussion that it wasn’t that genuine—here’s what a 1972 promo for the network really looked like. Gotta dig that slitscan technique—no computers doing these effects then!...

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JY Aristi versus rivals

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:41:25 +1200

I did a bit more work on JY Aristi last night and today. Here are some test documents for it, now with a few revised characters. Firstly, Hamburgerfonts (or, in this case, Hamburgefontsiv) is a common test word in typeface design. It shows the ...

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JY Aristi, v. 1.2

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:29:48 +1200

I know, the 5 is still too heavy. But I like the g and y now. Welcome to the world of type design—it’s all about fiddling around and making changes, though this is probably the first time I have done this publicly.

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New Facebook look buggy, deleted app

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:58:23 +1200

When I was younger, software developers did this thing called testing, which doesn’t seem to happen these days. It was such a radical idea. They would test the product and when we used it, it would work! How cool! Nowadays, everything is so ...

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Jack Yan & Associates’ home page evolves

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:57:26 +1200

I’ve always wanted our corporate home page to reflect the fact that we made it to 21 years in business since the beginning of the year—finally, here are the before and after. Before: I can’t remember when we did this but I dare say it was 2002....

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