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I'm still having a hard time believing what I'm about to write, but hopefully you will.

That was my intro, buddy.

A little bit of context

I listen to music, I try as hard as I can to be eclectic but let me confess that: I've always loved Hip-Hop. Of course my Hip-Hop heroes have changed through the years, but there's one that never left my inner podium... He's Canadian, he's weird (proof: he's worn a platypus shirt, once), he's probably the most subtle writer I know (OK, with Yoni Wolf) and he's evolving.

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Happy new year, folks!

I've been looking for ideas for my 2010 greeting card and finally found what I was looking for. During the process I developed several iterations that didn't made the final cut, I selected two of them that are not that bad but not good enough for prime time!

The "ad" version

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Lost Characters : des caractères qui n’ont pas demandé à naître (initié par Raphaël Bastide).

Le principe : Donner naissance à un caractère typographique qui n’a rien demandé, complètement hors contexte et hors du temps. Fond transparent ou blanc de préférence. Postez-le sur votre blog avec comme titre “Lost Characters”.

Create a single character, out of context and out of time. Post it on your blog with “Lost Characters” as a title. The freak must be on a transparent or white background.

Update: play with the home-brewed Type Tester!

Introducing Boks, my latest and most ambitious AIR app to this day!

Do you design web pages? Do you write HTML and CSS? Ever heard about the Grid System and Blueprint CSS? Thought it was a pain to implement? Think again, fool! › Continue reading...

A new project is online! It's called Kwot, and it allows you to share and store your favorite quotes.

The UI is quite minimalistic, with focus on simplicity. Navigate through quotes with your mouse wheel, your keyboard's left and right arrow or the mini timeline at the bottom. Add a quote by clicking on the plus button at the bottom right hand corner. If you don't pick any color they'll be automatically chosen via a magic algorithm! Another magic algorithm will rotate your quote in 3D space. But don't worry you will preview that in real-time, ha!

I might add user (login) support, language tagging, an RSS feed and stuff like that but don't expect that too soon, holidays are coming!

If you don't have the Flash plugin or if you visit the site on an iPhone the site will look quite different but everything will remain!

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I finally got a ffffound invite! If you don't know this image bookmarking site, go and have a look, it's wonderful!

I was browsing it, listening to Pauline Croze's "Quand je suis ivre" song and stumbled upon this image.

So I did that:

I think it could be a nice CD cover.

Warning: vulgar (french) content!

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Here is a collection of vector things, beginning with a type work I did for an English pub.

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