Here’s a really interesting visualisation from Jeff Clark. It uses Summize which provides excellent search capability for Twitter data and its built with Processing.

I typed in typography and web just to see what it would look like. One topic is coloured blue, the other red, and the associated words are coloured and positioned based on how highly they are associated with the two topics. Chris Harrison’s visualisations using a similar concept provided the inspiration for this piece.

FontCast #5 — Webfonts Week: Erik Spiekermann from FontShop on Vimeo.

The Font Feed is turning out to be a really good resource. Here’s a bunch of video interviews with key individuals driving the web font agenda, including: Erik Speikerman, Christian Swartz, David Berlow, Simon Daniels and David Mason.

Also, some other good links to posts about web fonts:

FontFont gives away Nuvo free web font with Firefox 3.6;

FontFonts on the Web, Starting Today, by Steven Coales;

and a nice example of web typography using FontFont fonts.

Well designed grids form the backbone of a site design and layout.  Here’s a couple of interesting links to two long time proponents of grids:

Khoi Vinh has written about the process of creating a WordPress theme called Basic Maths.

The Myths and Misconceptions About Grid Systems from AisleOne here.

These days, I just don’t have much time to blog!