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Par Chris Laquieze
Publi le 02/08/2026 sur Fakebouc
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Time for a new . another book
2026 Q1: What is happening
Ive been singing a lot to the song Bittersweet by Ariana Grande. Ive been thinking to myself, Ah, gusto ko nga boses ni Ariana whenever I hear it play on Monster Radio. Then one time, it queued on my Spotify and I discovered its actually sung by Madison Beer. And since that revelation, I still have to think of an Ariana song that I like.
Tap this text line to listen to this non-Ariana song Tap again to hideThey sound the saaame. Dont blame me.
I think we misidentify a lot of things in our lives. I think life is contradictory, surprising, even random, or just confusing. And Im not saying that as a negative. In the past, Id say life is a tender unfolding, but now, Ill add its a massive learning curve.
You ease it through the effort you put in, openness, self-belief, and a willingness to FAFO (fuck around and find out) to experience and understand things in your POV. And Im actually enjoying this curveeven if life lately has been overwhelming not because of work, but because of the state of the world.
I navigate this horseshit of anxiety by being informed. Its kinda self-sabotage, but its better to understand, which led me to late-night rabbit hole readings and resuming a book thats been sitting on my desk since December.
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics
Author: Tim Marshall
I pace myself at only one chapter per sitting. Four chapters in, it feels like a piece that fills the missing context from college history classes.
Its amazing how environment shapes people, their priorities, fears, what they will covet, and be paranoid about. You get a gist of why country leaders make the choices they do, and why they cant just behave and mind their own.
This is the train of thought so far while I havent finished the book.
1. Warmongering is a fight for resources a country lacks.
Russia is a powerhouse but lacks a warm port and a barrier to the west. Its ports freeze for half the year, trapping its navy. To the west, they have no mountains so theres an open flat plain leading straight to Moscow. When Ukraine (in its west) moved to join (which exists specifically to contain them), Russia did not sit idly by. They seized Crimea (part of Ukraine) to secure a year-round warm-water port and invaded the rest of the country, preventing NATO from parking weapons in that entry point to Moscow.
China has a massive population but lacks enough food and energy for a billion people. They need to trade so they negotiate with countries through massive loans () to get port access & trade routes, as well as take management of infrastructures they built, or ask low-cash countries to pay in raw materials.
USA, has everything but lacks full control over the global flow of fuel that keeps the USD strong (thru the ). This is why history-aware people know that the attack on Iran had been in the plan all along. Iran is a mountainous fortress that sits right on the Strait of Hormuz, the worlds biggest oil choke point. US couldnt risk a fortress country having the power to shut off the worlds energy.
2. Mountains and forests are a countrys natural defense.
Take the US-waged war in Vietnam. The Viet took the battle into jungles that were impossible for the G.I. to study without being ambushed or felled in traps. Mountains and forests arent just sceneries and resource providers. They are a countrys natural barrier. So if we destroy them, we are also weakening our own defenses not just from storms, but even against invasion. In fact, the Great Wall of China was an attempt to simulate a mountains advantage and make it hard for Mongol invaders.
3. If you dont own the sea path, you have to own the country that does.
Seas are important in trade and logistics. US signed up allies in navigable waters far from home (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines), surrounding and trapping China. Since US got to them first, China tries to recover by whatever claims they can stake (like the ) and get sea access through the Belt and Road Initiative.
4. In massive complex territories, frequent leadership changes wont work.
We see long-term authoritarian rule negatively because they hold onto power for so long. Yet it can take decades to understand the nuances of a vast land, its multiple territories, their differences that must be united, the common good they will rally to, and see patterns in the global landscape so they can protect themselves because countries surrounded by land are more vulnerable. And throughout history, invasions led to destruction of cities, looting, slaughter of combatants, massacre of civilians, torture, and rape. It can sound paranoid, but it will take a veteran to .
5. Americas liberator image is propaganda
US, had in fact, bought the colonies from their respective invaders and staged liberation struggles to position themselves as white saviors. And its sad they were painted as liberators in the Filipino history books my generation was taught during grade school.
Im only halfway through the book, but Im connecting how we usually view Communism through a Western lens, focusing on the Cold War and absence of democracy.
But originally, for the peasants in China Vietnam, Russia, and even the Huk in Philippines, it was about ending feudalism and the primary appeal was land distribution. It offered the common folk the right to own the dirt they worked on when the hacienderos owned almost everything.
The thing is, the government cannot give land to the poor without taking it from the rich. This creates an immediate class struggle where you take from the oligarchs to run the program. For a country like China, providing for a billion needed total control and long-term rule because they cannot allow vested interests to fuel a rebellion and take the resources back for a few elite families.
In this system, small businesses flourish more than massive corporations. Because the government prioritizes local labor and products over imports so you see a different kind of survival. Its a trade-off: you lose the big boom of a capitalist economy, but you gain a community that can support itself.
Vietnam Trip (January 2026)
Paolo and I went to Vietnam in January. Ill let the photos and videos do most of the talking from this point.
Hanoi
We clocked over 20,000 steps in a single day, wandering without a strict itinerary. But I did note what I wanted to try and a few accessible Michelin spots. I was looking forward to the egg coffee, but I ended up falling in love with the salted drinks.
Mui means salt in Vietnamese. The c ph mui (salted coffee) and chanh mui (salted lemonade) enraptured me. And yes, enraptured is the accurate term. But I had a falling out with ph the moment I tried bn ch. I meannn whaaat is thaaat cleeean, brrrothyy, smmokky taste!!! It was a total game-changer that my new noodles hierarchy is bn ch > ph > tom yum noodle soup.
Guuuulaaay!Sapa Town Center
Temperature in Sapa was at 14-19C during the day and slid down to 5-9C at night. It waaas freezing, but I think my November Sagada birthday hike prepared my skin for the cold. Sapa is such a walkable town that we only booked a Grab once. That was right after finishing Fansipan Peak, walking to Swing Sapa, and then trekking through Cat Cat Village in a single dayAFTER our 5-hour Lo Cai hike the day prior. By that point, after Cat Cat, my shins were shaking. There was just no way I could walk back to the inn.
Sapa is the ideal town for me. I hope I get to retire in a place like this.
Lo Cai Hike
This was the hike I mentioned. Its a village-to-village trek led by one of the women from the Mng tribe. Our guide was Nini. She picked us up first at the inn around 8:45 a.m., and then we walked to the next hotel to pick up the other joiners. I enjoyed trailing through the rice paddies and the soil, seeing the villages, and interacting with the tribespeople along the way. Youll notice that what the tribespeople are selling is at a higher price, but buy it anyway to help if you can.
The main livelihood for the women in the Mng tribe is either tour guiding or craft-making. The Mng people live in small villages along the rice paddies. I learned from Nini that Mng women cannot own or inherit land. Land is always inherited by sons. If a father has no son, his land doesnt go to his wife or daughter when he dies. It goes to his next male relative (a brother, for example). So, the only way a woman can benefit from land is by marrying a man who has inherited it and bearing him a son so they can keep it if the husband passes. This builds a need for mothers to continue having kids until they have a son, because its a way to ensure they get to keep a roof over their heads.
Fansipan Peak, Sun Plaza
I wanted to experience a frosty peak, but on the day we were set to climb thank God the sun was up! Because once youre actually climbing Fansipan, you realize how easy it is to die slipping off those 600 stepsand that is not how I want to go. I think people with big feet would find the descent more challenging since the steps are quite narrow.
The air up here is so clean and crisp. It smells like the mountain, and I felt like I could smell the clouds too. Its a mist-like scent, if that makes sense.
I bought this bag made out of lotus leavesCat Cat Village, Swing Sapa
The place was picturesque and colorful. Tourists go here for traditional photoshoots, and the ladies in costumes all looked like ethnic princesses. At this point, my battery was dyingand I mean both my energy and my phone, which had already fully consumed my power bank.
There were a lot of motorcycle drivers around, but when I checked, Grab was actually much cheaper. After finishing Cat Cat Village, we finally folded and booked a Grab back to the inn.
I love Vietnam. But its also sad to see another place that is so affordable for foreigners, but not necessarily for its people. That parallel reminds me too much of Manila. But at least Vietnam feels like it has better living conditions for the average citizen.
Ive only been to four countries, and when I think of my own, I cant help but wonder: why are we even prioritizing giant malls over public spaces We sometimes think that maybe we Filipinos have been the problem all along when we see how disorganized people act. But the root is that the government designed systems and environments with such a poor user experience because the officials are adorned law-degree holders who are highly educated but amoral (even immoral). I hope they put the right people in the right functions where they actually have things to contribute. Hindi yung kung saan nila trip magnakaw.
Elige tu propia aventura para iluminarte u obscurizarte en los caminos del maligno.
Demoledora, oscura y terrible. Con un estilo impecable la autora revela lo ms funesto y oscuro de los apetitos y el alma humana. Solo he logrado leerlo de da y con buen estado de nimo.
Launch day for my new Appalachian novel, GOOSE CREEK HOLLER.
Im not eligible for parole for six months.
HotType by Jeff Jarvis Is Out August 20th!
The book HotType by Jeff Jarvis is out on the 20th of August and I cant wait to get my hands on it.
Im a big fan of Jeffs books and have read, I think, all of them.
I first heard of Jeff when he joined the TWiT network to be on the This Week In Google podcast (now Intelligent Machines).
The guy is so smart and a prolific writer. His blog, , is also a great read!
Jeff a seasoned journalist and college educator. If you get a chance to pre-order the book HotType, you should. Find out more at .
I hadnt read a book since I left Japan in 2019 and my depression set in. The other day, as I was reading up on , it came to me, out of the blue, that I want to practice my pronunciation of Hungarian, one of my first languages, and to increase my vocabulary thereof, so I decided to check out my librarys collection of Hungarian novels to read out loud.
I settled on , since it wasnt too long. Has anybody here read it What did you think
I just finished reading the whole novel out loud, one chapter at a time, sitting outdoors in a quiet street or park or the likes. Well, all but the last three pages, since I was crying like a child and I couldnt produce a single word.
I cannot recommend this book enough! It has been translated to tens of different languages, so give it a shot!
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I liked "Moss'd in Space" because it has a very solar punk vibe, but humanity is trash and made itself trash through its trashy leadership.
Also one of the easiest things I've read in a while.
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A book series about love, creativity, loss, and the price of fame.
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The Ohno Book by James Edmondson Is the Weirdest, Most Useful Type Design Guide Right Now.
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The Ohno Book by James Edmondson Is the Weirdest, Most Useful Type Design Guide Right Now
James Edmondson built OH no Type Co. into one of the most recognizable names in independent type design, and now hes put the whole philosophy into 256 pages. The Ohno Book: A Serious Guide to Irreverent Type Design landed on my desk in late 2025, and Ive spent weeks with it, testing whether it actually teaches type design or just looks good doing it. Short answer: it does both, and the balance is rarer than youd think. Most books in this category pick a lane. Theyre either technical manuals with the personality of a tax form, or theyre glossy coffee table objects that never tell you how anything actually works. The Ohno Book refuses to pick.
That refusal is the whole point. Edmondson named the studio OH no Type Co., and if you know his fonts (Beastly, Casserole, Hobeaux, Ohno Fatface, Polymath, Regrets, Vulf), you already know he doesnt do quiet. So when Princeton Architectural Press published this book in October 2025, I expected something loud. What I got was something smarter than loud. Its a working guide dressed up as a party.
The Ohno Book: A Serious Guide to Irreverent Type Design by James EdmondsonSo, What Exactly Is The Ohno Book
The Ohno Book is part memoir, part technical manual, and part visual archive of one of the strangest type foundries working today. It runs 256 pages, printed by Princeton Architectural Press, and packs in over 175 black-and-white illustrations. You get type specimens, process sketches, marginal notes, and enough tangents to fill a second book. Edmondson wrote it in the same voice he uses on his OHNO Radio podcast: candid, funny, occasionally self-deprecating, always specific.
Heres the thing that surprised me most. The book actually teaches. Its not just Edmondson showing off Vulfs swashes or explaining why Regrets looks like it was drawn during a fever dream. There are real lessons on spacing, contrast, weight distribution, and the unglamorous grind of drawing hundreds of glyphs that all need to feel like they belong to the same family. If youve ever tried to draw a lowercase g that doesnt fight with your lowercase a, youll recognize the specificity here immediately.
Who Is James Edmondson
Edmondson studied graphic design at California College of the Arts and later graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts TypeMedia program in the Netherlands. Thats a serious pedigree hiding under a very silly font name. Hes taught at Type West through the Letterform Archive, run workshops at TypeCooper, and in 2018 he co-founded Future Fonts, a platform that lets designers sell typefaces while theyre still in progress. None of that reads as irreverent. The irreverence is a choice, not a limitation. That distinction matters more than most reviews give it credit for.
The Framework I Built to Actually Score This Book
Design books get reviewed with vague words like inspiring or essential, and I think thats lazy. So I built a small framework while reading, something Im calling the Craft-to-Chaos Ratio. It measures two things on a five-point scale each: how much rigorous, technical craft a resource teaches and how much creative looseness it actively encourages you to bring to the work. A book heavy on craft and light on chaos, something like a classic type anatomy textbook, scores high craft and low chaos. A pure inspiration book, all mood boards and no instruction, flips that.
The Ohno Book scores a 4 on craft and a 4 on chaos. Thats an unusual result. Most books cant hold both numbers that high at once, because rigor tends to eat playfulness, and playfulness tends to skip the boring parts that make type actually work. Edmondson pulls it off because he treats the boring parts as part of the joke. Hell explain kerning pairs and then immediately tell you why he named a typeface after an obscure funk band. Both get the same level of attention.
Why This Balance Is Rare
Ive read a lot of type design books over the years, and the ones that lean hard into craft (heavy on grids, heavy on Bzier theory) tend to lose the reader by page 80. The ones that lean into personality often skip the part where you learn anything transferable. The Ohno Book keeps switching lanes on purpose. One page is a diagram of stroke contrast. The next is a story about a client who wanted a friendly but aggressive logo, which, if youve worked in this industry, you already know is a real sentence someone has said to you.
How the Book Actually Reads, Page by Page
I read this the way I read most reference books first, front to back once, and then in fragments. The front-to-back read works fine. Edmondsons chapters build logically, moving from foundational type anatomy toward the business realities of running a foundry. But the book is genuinely built for reading in fragments, too. You can open to any page and land on something useful, whether thats a sketch of a numeral set or a paragraph on pricing custom fonts.
The tone stays consistent throughout, which is harder to pull off than it sounds. A lot of design authors get formal the moment they start explaining technical concepts, like the humor was a costume they took off for the real content. Edmondson doesnt do that. He explains x-height the same way he explains why Casserole is named Casserole. Casual, direct, a little proud of the weirdness.
The Illustrations Carry Real Weight
With over 175 black-and-white illustrations, this could have easily turned into filler. It doesnt. The sketches show actual process, not polished final specimens dressed up to look effortless. You see crossed-out letterforms, margin notes, revision after revision. For anyone whos ever felt discouraged by how clean other peoples process pages look online, this is a genuinely useful corrective. Type design is messy. The Ohno Book doesnt hide that.
Is This Book Actually Practical or Just Pretty
This is where a lot of readers will want a straight answer, so here it is. Yes, its practical. Edmondson covers how to balance creative instinct against commercial constraints, which is the exact tension every working type designer fights daily. He talks openly about earning a living as a type designer, a topic most books in this category treat as too indelicate to mention. Money gets discussed here. Licensing gets discussed. The unglamorous administrative side of running a foundry gets discussed.
He also explains the reasoning behind OH nos naming conventions, including why fonts get named after things like an obscure funk band or a French decorative arts school. That sounds like trivia. Its not. Naming is branding, and branding decisions ripple through how a typeface gets discovered, licensed, and remembered. A font called Sans 14 doesnt get the same cultural traction as one called Vulf.
What Id Actually Use From This Book Tomorrow
Three things stuck with me enough to apply directly to my own work. First, Edmondsons approach to drawing problem letters (the g, the a, the ampersand) before locking in the rest of a typefaces structure. Second, his framing of constraint as a creative tool rather than an obstacle, which shows up constantly when clients ask for contradictory things. Third, his blunt honesty about how much of type design is repetitive labor disguised as inspiration. That last one alone is worth the price of the book.
Where the Book Falls Short
No review is honest without a critique, so heres mine. The Ohno Book assumes some baseline familiarity with type terminology. If youve never heard of kerning, tracking, or optical sizing, a few sections will move faster than youd like. This isnt a book for absolute beginners with zero design vocabulary. Its better suited to design students, working graphic designers branching into type, and typography enthusiasts who already know the basics and want the next layer.
I also wanted a bit more depth on the technical software side. Edmondson touches on tools and workflow, but readers hoping for a step-by-step Glyphs or FontLab tutorial will need to look elsewhere. This book teaches thinking, not software mechanics. Thats a deliberate choice, and I respect it, but its worth knowing going in.
The Ohno Book Compared to Other Type Design References
Book / ResourceCraft-to-Chaos RatioBest ForTechnical DepthToneThe Ohno Book4 craft / 4 chaosWorking designers wanting craft and personality togetherSolid, conceptual over software-specificFunny, candid, directClassic type anatomy textbooks5 craft / 1 chaosBeginners needing foundational vocabularyVery high, formalAcademic, dryFoundry portfolio books (specimen only)1 craft / 3 chaosVisual inspiration, mood boardsMinimal to noneGlossy, promotionalSoftware-specific type design tutorials4 craft / 1 chaosLearning Glyphs, FontLab, or RoboFont mechanicsVery high, tool-focusedInstructional, neutralWhy This Book Matters Right Now
Type design books tend to arrive in two waves: technical manuals from decades ago that never got updated, and newer, thinner titles that lean entirely on Instagram-friendly visuals. The Ohno Book lands at a moment when independent foundries have real cultural weight. Studios like OH no built audiences the same way musicians build fan bases, through personality, consistency, and a refusal to sound like everyone else. A book that documents how that actually happened, with real technical instruction attached, fills a gap thats been sitting open for years.
Id also argue this book works as a quiet rebuttal to a certain kind of AI-generated typography thats flooded feeds over the past two years. Machine-generated lettering can mimic a style. It cant replicate the decades of accumulated judgment behind knowing exactly how much weight a stroke needs before it stops reading as intentional and starts reading as broken. The Ohno Book makes that judgment visible, page after page.
My Prediction for How This Book Gets Used
I expect The Ohno Book to become a standard recommendation on type design course syllabi within the next two to three years, alongside older staples like Thinking with Type. I also expect secondhand copies to become genuinely hard to find once design students discover how much practical business advice sits inside it. Books that combine craft instruction with candid career guidance tend to age well, because career advice from working professionals rarely goes stale the way software tutorials do.
Who Should Buy the Book
Buy this if youre a graphic design student trying to understand what type design actually involves day to day. Buy it if youre a working designer curious about adding type design as a service. Or buy it if you collect design books and want something that looks as good on a shelf as it reads on a couch. Skip it, or at least wait, if you need a pure software tutorial or a beginners glossary of typography terms. This book assumes youre already somewhat in the room.
Frequently Asked Questions About The Ohno Book
Who wrote The Ohno Book
James Edmondson wrote The Ohno Book. Hes the founder of OH no Type Co. and co-founder of Future Fonts, and he teaches type design at California College of the Arts, Letterform Archive, and Cooper Union.
When was The Ohno Book published
Princeton Architectural Press published The Ohno Book on October 14, 2025. It runs 256 pages and includes over 175 black-and-white illustrations.
Is The Ohno Book good for beginners
Its better suited to readers with some baseline type vocabulary already. Total beginners might want a foundational text first, then come back to The Ohno Book for the deeper, more opinionated material.
Does The Ohno Book teach specific software like Glyphs or FontLab
No. The Ohno Book focuses on conceptual and craft-based instruction rather than software tutorials. Readers looking for tool-specific walkthroughs should pair it with dedicated software guides.
What typefaces does OH no Type Co. make
OH no Type Co.s catalog includes Beastly, Casserole, Hobeaux, Ohno Fatface, Polymath, Regrets, and Vulf, among others, known for bold, expressive, and often psychedelic characters.
Is The Ohno Book worth buying for a design student
Oh yes! Between the technical instruction, the honest business advice, and the visual archive of process sketches, it offers value most single-topic design books dont attempt to cover.
Final Verdict on The Ohno Book
The Ohno Book earns its place on a working designers shelf, not just a coffee table. It teaches real craft while making a clear argument that personality and technical rigor arent opposites. Edmondson wrote a book that respects the readers intelligence and their sense of humor at the same time, which turns out to be a rarer combination than the design publishing world usually delivers. I tested it as a reading experience and as a reference tool, and it held up both times. Thats the actual bar for a book like this, and The Ohno Book clears it.
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