Happy Birthday to Me
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Today marks one full year in which this blog had its first post. Thank you very much for following this blog. I hope it’s been as good for you as it has for me.
"Clean Type is Godly Type"
I would like to introduce to you, Max Kerning. Extensis’ little creation that reminds us to keep everything neat. From taking the time to perfect letterspacing to keeping ourselves lint-free.
They’ve done a great job at getting Max out there into the social realm. You can find him on facebook and twitter and get the occasional tip on how to keep things neat.
Yulia Brodskaya
Yulia Brodskaya makes typographic illustrations and designs including what she calls Papergraphic illustrations. These are quite interesting and impressive. Have a looksee at these gorgeous examples of her fine work. 
Tweet Bomb: Redesign
The growing twitter-sensation Tweet Bomb was looking for a new page design with instructions on how it works. I gave them a new logo with it. Check it out and let me know what you think… Tweet Bomb. Their most recent victim was AJ Vaynerchuk owner of PleaseDressMe and little brother of Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibraryTV.
Follow me at @pstonier.
Gary Vaynerchuk: Jets Fan and Thunder Bringer
I came upon the world of the Vaynernation through using Cork’d to find a review of a wine. It was a pretty nice site. It got the job done. Then on there I saw a link to WineLibraryTV, a video blog where Mr. Vaynerchuk tastes a few wines each today. One video was all it took to get me hooked. Over the past several months, I’ve been religiously watching each episode. It’s a great way to learn about a subject that I knew a little about and wanted to know more. Over the past couple weeks, I began actually following Gary a bit more closely through Twitter and chatting on UStream. It was then that I realized how smart he was in taking advantage of these resources to keep in touch with his fan-base. He can post on Twitter that he’ll be on a show and hundreds of people will log on to chat with him. Doing so has done a variety of this to develop his personal brand that is further expressed at GaryVaynerchuk.com, where he provides his thoughts and advice on building a business and personal branding.
I highly recommend you follow Gary. You’ll definitely be entertained and you might just learn a thing or two.
P.S. Kerry Rhodes ftw.
4v2: For vs. To
Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by Paul Stonier
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In the video from the post below, Seth Godin mentions the idea of “For vs. To” in that the people making a difference are the ones doing things for their audience rather than marketers doing things to them. I simply want to enforce this idea and express that this is exactly the reason this blog exists. I want it to serve as a resource for anybody with a love of type, good ideas, design, marketing, and/or culture. Rather than monetizing against something like this, I would much rather know that I am serving as a benefit to others and perhaps provide a platform in which people with similar viewpoints can connect. Therefore, if you are one of these people (or even if you’re not), I’d love to hear from you. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Also, I will gladly answer any emails at [email protected].
Best,
Paul Stonier
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