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staff: Taking over New York Fashion Week We love any chance to hang out with you guys. And with Fashion Week happening in our backyard, this seemed like an awesome opportunity to hang out with a few of Tumblr’s most stylish fashion bloggers. Through an extraordinary effort by our new Fashion Director, Rich Tong, we’re thrilled to welcome 24 fashion bloggers to New York from all over the world! They’ll be providing first-hand coverage that you can track at http://www.tumblr.com/nyfw, presented by American Express. Our editors will also be featuring your best Fashion Week posts. Just make sure to tag them NYFW. If this is something you’d like to be involved in, please let Rich know! We’re hoping to do this again in London, Milan, and Paris over the next year.  Gorgeous photo taken by Jamie Beck in our new office

staff:

Taking over New York Fashion Week

We love any chance to hang out with you guys. And with Fashion Week happening in our backyard, this seemed like an awesome opportunity to hang out with a few of Tumblr’s most stylish fashion bloggers.

Through an extraordinary effort by our new Fashion Director, Rich Tong, we’re thrilled to welcome 24 fashion bloggers to New York from all over the world!

They’ll be providing first-hand coverage that you can track at http://www.tumblr.com/nyfw, presented by American Express.

Our editors will also be featuring your best Fashion Week posts. Just make sure to tag them NYFW.

If this is something you’d like to be involved in, please let Rich know! We’re hoping to do this again in London, Milan, and Paris over the next year.

 Gorgeous photo taken by Jamie Beck in our new office

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staff: Name Dave HolmesLocation Los AngelesFirst post October 2008 The nicest guy in Hollywood, Dave Holmes originally gained national attention as a finalist on MTV’s “Wanna Be a VJ” contest in 1998. He didn’t win, but no matter — he was hired by the network to conduct celebrity interviews and host programs like 120 Minutes and Say What? Karaoke for several years. Since then, he’s made appearances on The Andy Dick Show and Reno 911!, among others. These days, he’s a host for the TV Guide Network. He blogs about his passion for music, what it’s like to be a TV host, and his new web series A Drink With Dave. Also check out… mcbess Awesome London-based illustrator/director. Beautiful Type Dedicated to beautiful typography in all styles. Where in the world is Kaitty Bergin? See where her feet take her.

staff:

Name Dave Holmes
Location Los Angeles
First post October 2008

The nicest guy in Hollywood, Dave Holmes originally gained national attention as a finalist on MTV’s “Wanna Be a VJ” contest in 1998. He didn’t win, but no matter — he was hired by the network to conduct celebrity interviews and host programs like 120 Minutes and Say What? Karaoke for several years. Since then, he’s made appearances on The Andy Dick Show and Reno 911!, among others. These days, he’s a host for the TV Guide Network. He blogs about his passion for music, what it’s like to be a TV host, and his new web series A Drink With Dave.

Also check out…

mcbess
Awesome London-based illustrator/director.

Beautiful Type
Dedicated to beautiful typography in all styles.

Where in the world is Kaitty Bergin?
See where her feet take her.

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staff:

This was fun! Top Gear came by our office last week and shot this segment about our team’s first cars.

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staff:

It’s hard to organize Tumblr blogs by topic. A single one of your blogs may include your personal updates, your art, your opinions, and a YouTube video of a cat speaking Japanese, all in a single day. This has been a real limitation of the current Tumblr Directory. So, for the last few weeks we’ve been experimenting with some brand new tools for exploring Tumblr.

The new Explore page organizes and filters posts by tag. This means that every tagged post has a chance to show up in front of an audience of millions that might not otherwise see it. Think Tumblr Radar by topic.

Up top, the Tumblr Wire makes a return, pulling in featured posts in realtime. Below is a list of popular and trending tags (currently English only, with more languages coming soon). You can also Track these tags to get notifications on your Dashboard when a new post is featured.

Make sure to tag your posts where relevant to help more people find you. You can still look up any tag using the search box on your Dashboard.

We’ve already started finding posts and following blogs that we had no idea existed. Please give it a spin!

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staff: We’re throwing a Texas-Sized Tumblr Meetup this Wednesday in Austin! Heading out to SXSW? Come on down to Clive Bar on March 16 anytime from 1:00-6:00pm to meet and hang out with Tumblr friends old and new. Plus, we’re giving away hundreds of T-shirts, thousands of buttons, and a whole mess of stickers. Also: beer! In other SXSW news, we’re hosting a developer gathering, an industry party, and Tumblr staff will be on-hand during the entire duration of the conference. We’re looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible throughout the week! Please RSVP here if you plan to drop by the Meetup!

staff:

We’re throwing a Texas-Sized Tumblr Meetup this Wednesday in Austin!

Heading out to SXSW? Come on down to Clive Bar on March 16 anytime from 1:00-6:00pm to meet and hang out with Tumblr friends old and new. Plus, we’re giving away hundreds of T-shirts, thousands of buttons, and a whole mess of stickers. Also: beer!

In other SXSW news, we’re hosting a developer gathering, an industry party, and Tumblr staff will be on-hand during the entire duration of the conference. We’re looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible throughout the week!

Please RSVP here if you plan to drop by the Meetup!

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theleagueofmoveabletype: A new League typeface is in the making! chadilaksono: Minding my Q’s Immersing myself all day on type making today. I’m working on that new typeface for The League. It’s coming along quite nicely, and faster than I thought it would. But for most of today and yesterday, I’ve been stuck, unexpectedly on the letter Q. You’d think Q would be pretty simple, right? Copy the “O” and give it a tail. Well, the tail is really the pickle here. I just didn’t know what sort of tail it should have. Should it reach below the baseline, or should it be aligned to the baseline?. Should it slice through the bowl of the O, or not? How angled should the tail be? All in all, I spent a ton of time trying out all the different possibilities that the Q could go, but I think I finally have decided on one, the very last one on that list. You can see the evolution I went through to get there. To be honest, I think some of the non-slicing tails in the beginning of the list kinda looks good, as a stand alone Q, but I don’t think they’d work well as part of a unit. I’d like to keep all the capitals to be aligned and above the baseline, so having a Q tail that reaches below, would break that consistency. So that’s where I’m at right now. Stay tuned for more updates, ramblings, queries, complaints, and/or suicidal thoughts on this subject!

theleagueofmoveabletype:

A new League typeface is in the making!

chadilaksono:

Minding my Q’s

Immersing myself all day on type making today. I’m working on that new typeface for The League.

It’s coming along quite nicely, and faster than I thought it would. But for most of today and yesterday, I’ve been stuck, unexpectedly on the letter Q.

You’d think Q would be pretty simple, right? Copy the “O” and give it a tail. Well, the tail is really the pickle here. I just didn’t know what sort of tail it should have. Should it reach below the baseline, or should it be aligned to the baseline?. Should it slice through the bowl of the O, or not? How angled should the tail be?

All in all, I spent a ton of time trying out all the different possibilities that the Q could go, but I think I finally have decided on one, the very last one on that list. You can see the evolution I went through to get there.

To be honest, I think some of the non-slicing tails in the beginning of the list kinda looks good, as a stand alone Q, but I don’t think they’d work well as part of a unit. I’d like to keep all the capitals to be aligned and above the baseline, so having a Q tail that reaches below, would break that consistency.

So that’s where I’m at right now. Stay tuned for more updates, ramblings, queries, complaints, and/or suicidal thoughts on this subject!

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staff: Awesome! Our friends at Flickr have updated their share feature to include Tumblr as one of the featured destinations.  Aww, we feel so loved - and we love you too!  

staff:

Awesome! Our friends at Flickr have updated their share feature to include Tumblr as one of the featured destinations.  Aww, we feel so loved - and we love you too!  

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staff: Name FAUX FIXLocation Connecticut A collage of art-pop and hauntingly intimate vocals, Faux Fix is the studio brainchild of hypnotic chanteuse Katie Chastain and indie film composer Nathan Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom). Simultaneously ethereal and beat-driven, the songs liberally mix instruments and influences to form a backdrop of electro-theatrical arrangements. Final touches are being put on a full-length album now. Also check out… GOOD A community of thought leaders and cultural creatives who give a damn. Join them as they collect and explore all things visual. Hovering Art Directors Top secret evidence of the world-class hovering ability of unrepentant art directors. Dr. Cranquis’ Mumbled Gripes An American physician in an Urgent Care clinic who sees lots of stupid things. He copes by mumbling under his breath (and posting about it here). Photo by Christopher Kuehl.

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Name FAUX FIX
Location Connecticut

A collage of art-pop and hauntingly intimate vocals, Faux Fix is the studio brainchild of hypnotic chanteuse Katie Chastain and indie film composer Nathan Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom). Simultaneously ethereal and beat-driven, the songs liberally mix instruments and influences to form a backdrop of electro-theatrical arrangements. Final touches are being put on a full-length album now.

Also check out…

GOOD
A community of thought leaders and cultural creatives who give a damn. Join them as they collect and explore all things visual.

Hovering Art Directors
Top secret evidence of the world-class hovering ability of unrepentant art directors.

Dr. Cranquis’ Mumbled Gripes
An American physician in an Urgent Care clinic who sees lots of stupid things. He copes by mumbling under his breath (and posting about it here).

Photo by Christopher Kuehl.