Archive – Comdesres

Recent

Posts written for this site beginning from December 2014.

2017

October 23 Hear me talk about branding at Lemesos semiotics conference
October 20 Unifying personal branding

2016

May 31 The relief of the doctorate
April 30 Finding your own mediocrity
March 28 Good time for design education and research
February 28 Telling news with graphics and extending your shelf-life as a graphic journalist

2015

November 23 Visiting Alois Senefelder – inventor of lithography
November 4 Twitter favourite button and meaning of symbols
October 31 Satanic deed for collecting souls on Halloween
September 12 R.I.P. Adrian Frutiger
February 23 Origin of the Oxford comma
February 12 Craft skills versus analytical minds
January 19 Why visual communication matters

2014

December 27 Phatic seasons greetings
December 6 New beginnings on old foundations

Ancient posts

These posts were written for my old blog typo.fi years ago. When I migrated to this site, I decided to save some of the more interesting posts here instead of deleting everything and starting all over.

2013

June 21 We are all fallible

2011

April 11 Charts instead of tables please
March 30 Trending catastrophe music
March 18 Photos of Isotype at the V&A Museum
March 16 The visuals that should have been there
March 11 Shocking Japan quake images – all two thirds of them
March 6 The chasm between you and the supervisor
February 17 Neologism: indivisual
February 14 We all wear masks – even lovers
February 10 Above and beyond the call of duty
February 7 Lévi-Straussian sleeplessness
February 4 A blog to keep up the writing skills

2007

July 4 How to turn women into men
April 23 Origins of the semicolon?
January 21 Daredevil and printing methods

2006