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A specialized weblog on design theory and the international art & design scene. It will cover web development, architecture, fine art, and more. While we support full accessibility for the web, all of our photo galleries are setup using 100% quality JPEG images made for broadband internet connections to maintain the utmost level of photographic color.

arrowWebstellung Trial
Date: 5.10.08
A typographic work created as a bid for our friends out of Paris.

Wonky Typographic Trial
arrowScalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR)
Date: 12.20.07
This post is a bit more aimed at tech geeks and web developers, so if you're here to download some dope wallpapers or view our photo galleries, then you'll have to come back soon. On the other hand, if you ARE a developer, you may have heard of sIFR but if you haven't then let us explain the beauty of this new method of web design.

Are you familiar with the term "typophile"? It literally means someone who is obsessed or in-love with typography, or the letterform, fonts, etc. As web designers, many of us still consider the age of the Internet similar to that of a toddler. Steam engined cars. Our space program. Visionaries see the beauty and future, but the reality of the web is that it is still extremely limited, especially in the use of fonts. We have about 8 total fonts to our disposal without the use of images which PDAs, screen readers, and older browsers simply can't see. So if we want to use a great font we use in print design (i.e. Trade Gothic, Garamond, Futura, etc.), we simply can't turn a header or title into that font, because 99.9% of our audience's computers will turn it into something ridiculously typical like Arial or Times New Roman.
However, several cutting edge web design inventors have come up with a method that utilizes Adobe Flash to encode typical headers and titles (known by us as "h1s" or "h2s" and so on) using ANY FONT WE WANT. Can you imagine the beauty?!? Yes, only a typophile would say something like that.
The only drawback at this point it seems is that you can't encode an entire web page using sIFR, because applying that font replacement for a whole body of text (like this one) with a font as beautiful as Trajan would either freeze your browser or take at least a minute or two to load. So for now, those of you that are still interested in sIFR and would like to try it out for yourselves for your headers, check out either Mike Davidson's explanation or the direct download at November Born's site.
Our headers use sIFR and the Neutra typeface, while some of our newer XHTML, non-flash sites use Cleargothic sIFR.