If you’re interested in the minutiae of letterforms, typographic principles and their historic context, the book I’d recommend reading as a (dense) primer is:

The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst (get the 4th/latest edition as it better covers digital type)

The proportions are wrong on the White House refit, that’s one reason why it looks bad. You can have all the half-inch brass you want, but it will look a tasteless mess if the proportions are out. Elements are too big or too close.

The Astoria proportions feel balanced and aesthetically correct.

Is the Patreon pod available? It’s not showing in my feed.

Really enjoyed this one! Lovely tales from Jim. I especially liked the bit about the other actors joining in with fluffing their lines to help him get over his nerves - such a kind thing to do.

The sink where the tap doesn’t overhand the basin enough, so you knuckle the back of the basin when rinsing your hands.

It’s a nice Victorian style sink, with nice looking handles. They just need to be a bit longer. It doesn’t take much thought or care to get right.

The toilet seat/lid that won’t stay up on their own because the toilet has been fixed too far back to get the correct lean.

This is a pet hate!

Some examples:

The light switch positioned behind a door opening, so you have to enter the room and close the door before you can turn the light on.

Yes, it was probably a pain to move the switch, but it would have been the right things to do.

I once worked at an office with another Mark. I was subsequently called Mark 2. A colleague once asked if I minded being called Mark 2, to which I replied that the Mk2 version of anything is usually an improvement on the original. Mark 1 wasn’t too impressed with that.

Haha. No worries. It just come through. That and Wem-ber-lee, so two for the price of one and plenty to listen to over the weekend. 👍

Any idea why this episode hasn’t made its way to my feed?

Yeah, they are often fairly tasteless. The oil-paint filter in Photoshop does not represent an oil paining. I’d rather have a good quality photo. Or a real oil paining.

Flogging ‘lazy art’ was going on long before AI.

E.g. many of the canvas prints sold at Christmas markets, are just low quality photos ripped off the web, with a Photoshop filter applied.

Takes 2 minutes and requires no creative skill. Still, I’m sure people who didn’t know bought them!