Not by Garcia, comprende?When the new redesigned NST hits the streets next week, you can be sure it will have a new titleplate. Phew! Thank goodness for small mercies.
At long last we’ll be rid of that ghastly, schoolboyish, tinkertoy titleplate of the past decade (below) since the paper shrank to tabloid size.
spoof design by uppercaise
Spoof design created by uppercaise with Scribus and Inkscape. Sigh. To think I had to say that.
Sigh Spoof design created by uppercaise with Scribus and Inkscape. (I had an hour to spare.) Sigh.
There’s yet another New New Straits Times coming next week. The phrase is so trite you’d think NST Marketing would seek something fresh. It’s only been used since 1979, after all, and the paper’s been through three re-incarnations, each one trumpeted as being NEW! Never mind, no one remembers these things anyway. So long as it looks different from the last one.
Keep your pencils sharpened for Nov 11, it’s you-know-who’s favourite number.
Milton Glaser,
the graphic designer who submitted his now-iconic rebus in 1976 to New York State tourism free of charge.
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This wonderful infomation graphic by Kai Krause, which has been circulating for the past week, puts the size of countries into real perspective, and again demonstrates the power of images to convey information (backed up with the data at hand, of course).
» Full size image: 2,482 pixels x 1,755px [417kB]Malaysia is listed 66th of the world’s 100 largest countries, in a table that accompanies the map. That ranking seems slightly misleading for comparative purposes as most other countries comprise single land masses with little bits tagged on (except archipelagoes).
• The 10 largest countries: Russia, Canada, China, United States, Brazil, Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Sudan
• Asean countries: Indonesia (16), Myanmar (40), Thailand (50), Vietnam (65), Malaysia (66), Philippines (72), Laos (83), and Cambodia (89).
Malaysia’s total landmass 329,847 sq km (127,355 sq mi) comprises:
| Peninsula: | 131,598 sq km (50,810 sq mi) |
| Sarawak: | 124,450 sq km (48,050 sq mi) |
| Sabah: | 76,115 sq km (29,388 sq mi) |
Figures from Wikipedia
Separately, the peninsula would rank 96th and Sarawak 98th. Sabah would not fit into the top 100.
(Kai Krause is the creator of Kai’s Power Tools, a toolkit for Photoshop, and other image-bending stuff like Bryce and Power Goo.)
A currency symbol for the ringgit could look like this. A few strokes away from top world-ranking.
It’s so irksome having to type “RM” for amounts of money when writing an article or report. And besides, “RM” is visually very ugly in headlines, and also takes up the space of three characters. So let’s design a new symbol and make life simpler at the keyboard.
Here’s my contribution. This new symbol for the ringgit captures the essence of Malaysian life, showing constant motion, all action, things moving all the time, in a state of flux, going up and going down.
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