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28.4.12

What an amazing place: Coldstones Cut

Had an amazing day at Coldstones Cut, North Yorkshire. Created by the artist Andrew Sabin, The Coldstones
Cut is Yorkshire's latest visitor attraction. A massive construction which visitors can freely walk through and explore, the sculpture overlooks the huge working Coldstones Quarry and offers spectacular views over the scenery of Nidderdale in the Yorkshire Dales.
Andrew Sabin studied at Chelsea College of Art between 1979 and 1983. He taught there as a part-time lecturer and later as a 0.5 Senior Lecturer between 1987 and 2005. Between graduation in 1983 and 1990 he practised as a highly experimental object maker. Between 1990 and 1997 he made three major installations first at The Chisenhale Gallery, then 'The Sea of Sun' for The Henry Moore Institute and finally 'The Open Sea' at The Henry Moore Studio in Halifax. In 1998 he began to concentrate his energies on applying his understanding of the potenetial sculpture has in the public realm in a series of projects culminating in 'The Coldstones Cut', which won the Marsh Award for Public Sculpture in 2011.
This place has been open since 2010 - and I only found out about it this week. Here's some pictures:



2.4.12

The Ten Commandments of Typography

The Ten Commandments of Typography by Paul Felton
1. Thou shalt not apply more than three typefaces in a document.
2. Thou shalt lay headlines large and at the top of a page.
3. Thou shalt employ no other type size than 8pt to 10pt for body copy
4. Remember that a typeface that is not legible is not truley a typeface.
5. Honour thy kerning, so that white space becomes visually equalized between characters.
6. Thou shalt lay stress discreetly upon elements within text.
7. Thou shalt not use only capitals when setting vast body copy.
8. Thou shalt always align letters and words on a baseline.
9. Thou shalt use flush-left, ragged-right type alignment.
10. Thou shalt not make lines too short or too long.

But you can break all these rules...