Jason Tselentis
Jason teaches graphic design and typography at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He developed an interest in typography during grade school calligraphy classes, and began analyzing fonts in comic books, science fiction, calculus texts, classic literature, and film titles. He created his own titling type using the Macintosh Plus at the ripe age of 11. Jason's admiration for typography wreaked havoc when he ran the 2001 Lincoln City Marathon and placed a disappointing 402nd out of 806 because type on billboards, T-shirts, and advertising distracted him. He's jogged fourteen times since then, but has not run competitively. In his spare time, Jason plays Jenga, and remains unbeaten. If you're interested in knowing more about Jason, please type his name into a Google.com search.
He is the author of Type, Form & Function.
Columns:
Points, Pixels, Paper: Developer's Tools
This list of tools will help you design for the web without tears—or at least less tears.
Topics: Interactive Design, Layouts, Managing Design
Nexus: Responsive or Adaptive, That Is The Question
Words like responsive and adaptive get thrown around whenever talking about how a website translates from one viewport to another, be it a television, desktop, laptop, netbook, tablet, phablet, or phone.
Topics: Interactive Design, Random
Nexus: So You Want to Learn a Web Language
During the desktop computer revolution, some designers leapt at the computer, but others cringed.
Topics: Design Reference, Interactive Design, Random
Nexus: Popular, Lesser Known, and Prospective Browsers
If you thought the browser wars were over, think again.
Topics: Branding Identity, Interactive Design, Random
Nexus: Web Font Dossier
A wealth of type choices exist for use online so you can go beyond web safe fonts like Verdana and Georgia.
Topics: Design Reference, Interactive Design, Layouts, Type
Nexus: Cross-Platform Design
When it comes to tablets, phones, and computers, consumers have more choices than ever before.
Topics: Interactive Design, Random
Nexus: Digital New Year's Resolutions (with a Little Print Too)
Whether you work in print, digital, or both domains, it can be easy to fall into a comfort zone.
Topics: Interactive Design, Professional Development, Random, Self-Promotion, Studio Secrets, Type
Nexus: Online Portfolio as Blog
Those unfamiliar with web design often struggle with finding the best way to get their work online, but two blog platforms can make it easy.
Topics: Interactive Design, Professional Development, Random, Self-Promotion
Nexus: 2012 Holiday Shopping Guide
The Nexus Holiday Shopping Guide has a smattering of gadgets, toys, and hardware for all ages.
Topics: Product Design, Professional Development, Random
Nexus: QWERTY or Not QWERTY: That Is the Question
The QWERTY keyboard has pervaded our lives, whether we type on a phone, tablet, or computer.
Nexus: Mapping the Internet
If you had a map of the Internet what would it look like? How complex would it appear? Yahoo! as it appeared on December 27, 1996, via the Wayback Machine.
Topics: Interactive Design, Random
Nexus: Libraries, pPubs, Ebraries, and ePubs
What will the library of the future look like? Chances are you've already seen it, only it's less about place and more about pixels.
Topics: Interactive Design, Packaging
Nexus: When Starting Out, Sketch It Out
Because web design ends with a digitally rendered composition, designers may be tempted to jump right to the computer for prototyping.
Topics: Interactive Design, Layouts
Nexus: Standard Operating Procedures
When it comes to repetitive design and production tasks, it helps to let the software do the work.
Topics: Interactive Design, Layouts, Random
Points, Pixels, Paper: A Twitter Advertising Model
Twitter could transform their interface into an advertising delivery mechanism anytime.
Topics: Branding Identity, Interactive Design, Layouts, Random, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Invoicing for Designers
Freelance designers often manage all operations, from concept to roughs to design and final production.
Topics: Professional Development, Studio Secrets, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Eloise the Intertype
Designers can choose from a wide range of artifacts to collect.
Points, Pixels, Paper: Electronic Media
Should all designers understand and be able to design for the web? Not necessarily.
Topics: Design Reference, Interactive Design, Layouts, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Sizing Web Typography
Designers and developers size typography for the screen using points, pixels, ems, or percentages (often denoted by simply %).
Topics: Design Reference, Interactive Design, Layouts, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Ten Alternatives to Impact
Are you getting bored with using Impact for your Microsoft Word desktop publishing projects? Don't have a lot of fonts installed on your PC? Here are ten heavyweights to use instead of Impact.
Topics: Design Reference, Layouts, Professional Development, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: GOP Typography Roundup
"Ask not what your typeface can do for you, ask what you can do with your typeface," is a slogan that many of the Republican nominees may have subconsciously thought about since launching their campaign for the Presidency.
Topics: Branding Identity, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Out of Sorts and Other Font Phrases
When I learned how to set metal type, my instructor taught us the difference between job cases.
Points, Pixels, Paper: Type in the Real World Vol. 2
Volume 2 of Type in the Real World looks at typographic left-overs, for sale signs, newspapers, and weather maps, among other spectacles.
Topics: Branding Identity, Environmental Design, Layouts, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Typography Holiday Shopping Guide Vol. 2
This second installment of the Points, Pixels, Paper Holiday Shopping Guide has gift suggestions for type nerds.
Points, Pixels, Paper: Typography Holiday Shopping Guide Vol. 1
This first installment of the Points, Pixels, Paper Holiday Shopping Guide has gift suggestions for type nerds.
Topics: Pattern & Palette, Random, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Type in the Real World Vol. 1
This is the first post in a series I'll be calling Type in the Real World, where I share typography found in my everyday surroundings.
Topics: Branding Identity, Design Reference, Environmental Design, Packaging, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Dumb Quotes, Primes, Apostrophes, and Quotes
One of the more common issues designers have to deal with is the primes versus quotes versus apostrophe conundrum.
Topics: Design Reference, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Combining Fonts
Combining different typefaces can be a mysterious and vexing endeavor for neophytes or even experienced designers.
Points, Pixels, Paper: To Hyphen or Not to Hyphen, That Is the Question
One of the more common digital typography mistakes happens when a hyphen is used incorrectly, such as substituting it for an en or em dash.
Points, Pixels, Paper: Where Have All the Specimens Gone?
In order to preview a typeface, designers used to request specimen sheets in the form of printed catalogs, flyers, or posters to see how the characters looked, and if the face would work well for their project.
Topic: Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: ASCII Art, from Text to Image to Text
Long before high definition displays rendered millions of colors before our eyes, writers, artists, programmers, and designers used simple alpha-numeric characters to create imagery.
Points, Pixels, Paper: iPad App Teaches Typography
Exploring how emerging technologies can help in the classroom has undergone a Renaissance thanks to tablet computing and other touch screens such as iPhones and iPods.
Topics: Product Design, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Heroic Typography
While travelling to my first San Diego Comic Con this Summer, I began to wonder, "How many heroes use typographic monickers?" I arrived at this incomplete list while visiting the booths and watching costumed attendees (now called "cosplay") at Comic Con 2011.
Topics: Branding Identity, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Movie Poster Typography: A Mid-Year Review
With the Summer movie season in full swing, I'll visit theaters at least once per week from now until September 1st.
Topics: Branding Identity, Type
Points, Pixels, Paper: Typographic Symphony: Pining for the Sheet Music of Old
Designers, musicians, and producers spend an equal amount of time lamenting how music packaging has changed from large record sleeves, down to cassette cases, into CD jewel cases, and down to digital JPEGs.
Topic: Type
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