Have You Been “keming” Correctly?

This dandy gem came across my email recently:

It took me a minute to get it, but when I got it, I loved it! One of those inside joke things that you can flaunt in front of all your non-designer friends… or designer friends too, for that matter. Thanks to David at Ironic Sans for an excellent little quip, AND a cool t-shirt to boot!

Correct Breaking of URLs… Is It Possible?

Can URLs be broken “correctly” in end-of-line situations?

As a designer who often works with large amounts of text, I run into this problem all the time. Chicago Manual of Style Online says: “when a URL must be broken over a line in a printed work, breaking after a slash is preferable (also break after a double slash). On the other hand, breaking a URL after a dot (leaving what looks like a period at the end of a line) might cause difficulties for the reader. It would be better to place the dot at the beginning of the next line. Using a hyphen to break a long word at the end of a line is not a good idea, since some URLs contain hyphens as part of the address; moreover, a hyphen that’s part of a URL should never appear at the end of a line. For more, see paragraph 17.11 in CMOS 15.”

My dad also sent me this bit of info that he ran across online, which is helpful, although I don’t know the source:

OK to break:

After a slash   / 

After a doubleslash  //

Before a dot   .

Break before a tilde   ~

Break before a hyphen  -

Break before an underline  _

Break before a question mark   ?

Break before a percent  mark   %

Break before or after an equals sign   =  

Break before or after an ampersand   &

A hyphen that is part of a web address should not appear at the end of a line   -

Good luck to us all… but this is a good start!

 

McCarthy Era Connection

I was scanning my book cases and stumbled across my Grandpa Leroy’s old book, Joe Must Go. A mild-mannered rural Wisconsin newspaper editor, he became an overnight sensation in the early 1950s by initiating the recall movement of one of the most well-known and widely-feared political figures of his day—Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. 

All family members young and old ended up with a copy, and mine sits on my office bookshelf where I occasionally re-discover it, and read through the pages remembering my grandfather for the neat guy that he was. Remembering too that he and his family suffered dearly as a result of his taking a stand against McCarthy. Always a fun trip down memory lane, plus the cover is a true gem of 50s design.

Letterpress “BOOKS” Poster Now Available

I designed these posters last year as a promotional project. Sent them to all my clients as well as bunch of potential clients, and now I’m making them available to the world at large.

They’re very nicely done if I do say so myself–11 x 14 inches, printed letterpress by a small shop here in Nashville, 2 colors on heavy felt cover stock with a deckled edge. (I had them really lean on it during printing, so they have a nice, extra-deep impression–very tactile.) These weren’t cheap to produce, so just to help defray some expenses, I’m selling them for $10 bucks plus a little for shipping–a small price to pay for a quality product. HOWEVER, if you happen to send me some work, you get one for free–such a deal!

Email me at Bruce@gorestudio.com if you’re interested, and we’ll iron out all the gritty details.