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The Mathematics of Stationery

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 10:36am on 11/03/2006
This is the sort of web page I love - an explanation of international standard paper sizes. Mmmm, the ISO 216 A series... So clever! So sensible! It's as if someone designed it that way!

[Yes, I'm laying out the Eastercon Programme Book this weekend - why do you ask?]
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posted by [identity profile] vicarage.livejournal.com at 11:24am on 11/03/2006
Lovely. It includes a damning inditement of American paper sizes and the 3 hole binder too.
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posted by [identity profile] steverogerson.livejournal.com at 12:27pm on 11/03/2006
Did you get my email about the Redemption ad?
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posted by [identity profile] ang-grrr.livejournal.com at 12:46pm on 11/03/2006
*bookmarks*

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posted by [identity profile] robthefish.livejournal.com at 07:00pm on 11/03/2006
Where does the Audi A4 fit into this scheme??
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:33am on 12/03/2006
Logically, it should fit into an Audi C4 envelope.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:34am on 12/03/2006
I do like these things that make perfect sense and perfect nonsense both at the same time.
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C4 envelope

posted by [identity profile] robthefish.livejournal.com at 01:08pm on 12/03/2006
An envelope made of plastic explosives??
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posted by [identity profile] robthefish.livejournal.com at 01:10pm on 12/03/2006
I do like these things that make perfect sense and perfect nonsense both at the same time.
So do I... does it show at all?:-)
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posted by [identity profile] robthefish.livejournal.com at 01:30pm on 12/03/2006
Not sure if the Audi A4 would fit into a C4 envelope :-) Hey, are all the car designers ex-envelope designers??
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:23pm on 12/03/2006
Cool wireframe robots on that page.

How about the Peugeot DL Window?
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posted by [identity profile] supergee.livejournal.com at 10:59pm on 11/03/2006
Joe Celko explained paper sizes to me at a con once and I never forgot. He went on to be a name-above-the-title author of computer books.
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posted by [identity profile] chillies.livejournal.com at 02:30pm on 12/03/2006
I *heart* that article.

Although the series of sizes just makes sense, it's interesting to read Tschichold's 1928 book The New Typography where he's still having to argue the case for the new metric sizes 6 years after they'd been adopted as a standard.
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posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 10:09am on 14/03/2006
Ah, Marcus Kuhn's page. One of those true classics of the old web - you noticed the original date? That page has been there for just about a decade, and I've been using it for much of the time.

I'm assuming that if he has left, or ever does leave, Cambridge University, that the pages in question will remain, simply because there'll be too many links to them.
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