The New Sci­en­tist has some cool videos on its site.

Sim­ple opti­cal illu­sions can make it seem like the progress bars on your file down­loads are mov­ing faster than they actu­ally are (see video above).

Rip­ple effects and pulses of light are among the tricks com­puter pro­gram­mers can use to keep you wait­ing those extra sec­onds.

Sound­Fla­vors to the res­cue! from Eden­spiek­er­mann on Vimeo.

What is the­atre? It reflects real­ity, its own take on it. So we took the name, mir­rored it and placed the reflected image behind the leg­i­ble one. That was turned into an alpha­bet which, set in two colours, says the name of the the­atre plus other head­lines: Stadss­chouw­burg Utrecht. The lit­tle movie is a short overview of one of the best projects that has come out of the Ams­ter­dam office of Eden­spiek­er­mann recently. If I say so myself…

stadsschouwburg_web

Deutsche Welle TV, Germany’s chan­nel for view­ers abroad, filmed an inter­view with me for their pro­gramme euro­maxx. Unfor­tu­nately, the Eng­lish voiceover keeps call­ing me a “font designer” and refers to type­faces as “let­ter fonts”. I insist that we design type­faces. Those are then made into fonts which is what you buy.

I’ll have the oppor­tu­nity to make that point and oth­ers when the exhi­bi­tion opens at the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin on 15 March 2011. They’ve asked me to tell my story because I have been awarded the Fed­eral Ger­man Design Prize 2011 as a Life­time Achieve­ment Award from the Ger­man Design Council.

A link to the orig­i­nal Ger­man ver­sion of this video can be found over on the Ger­man por­tion of this blog; just click the link at the top of the page.

Swedish pub­lish­ers Bon­nier demon­strate how they imag­ine the future of news­pa­pers on tablets:

found on kress.de

Over on the Ger­man part of this weblog you can watch a short movie and an inter­view as well as lis­ten to a radio pro­gramme – all in Ger­man and all on the occa­sion of TypoBer­lin 2010. Just click the “deutsch” but­ton above.

It’s been around for a while. As off today also fea­tured on the Spiekerblog: proper type­faces instead of sys­tem fonts.

Copy is set in Espi Slab Reg­u­lar, Head­lines in Espi Sans Bold, Twit­ter Feeds in Espi Sans Reg­u­lar and Bold. Espi is Edenspiekermann’s exclu­sive ver­sion of FF Unit and FF Unit Slab. Done with Type­kit.

Mar­cus Scheller hacked it all together.

You can also see real type in action on the Eden­spiek­er­mann site.

Just caught on online inter­view about web­fonts and copied this snip­pet which men­tions the fact that prepar­ing fonts for the web is a lot of work.
typekit_on_fontfont
Here is the whole interview:

http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow