Khoi Vinh's Blog, page 39

Where the Comic Book Font Came From

Vox shines a light on comic book letterers, none of whom you will ever recognize in public, but who have…

Movies Watched, August 2016

Whenever I’m about to do a bunch of travel, as was the case last month, I re-up my subscription to…

Happy Batman Day

Today marks the third annual Batman Day celebration—a good time as any to dress up like a flying mammal and…

How Much Screen Time Do Actresses Get?

Software developed by The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media can now analyze a film and determine how much…

Pretend Art Directing iOS 10’s Lock Screen

After a busy summer during which I never got to try the beta, I’ve finally got the official release of…

Galaxy Note 7 Warnings on Flights

Last Friday, before I boarded a red-eye flight from San Francisco to New York, the airline representative at the gate…

Two Weeks with Just an iPad

I just returned from two weeks of business travel with just my 9.7-inch iPad Pro as my main computing device—no…

How Star Trek Created the iPad

Ars Technica has this great article on how “Star Trek: The Next Generation” invented (or at least imagined) the precursors…

Balloon Olympics

This is a little late as the summer games are over, but it’s fun and visually inventive enough that I…

Politics: Steady Diet of…Something

Just seventy-four days left until Election Day. I don’t talk about politics here very much but I do spend a…