Yo! Let's look at the Gio-fiz

Oregon Public Broadcasting put Time Team America into production.

"That's what archaeology tries to do, to highlight what people didn't write down, the importance of day-to-day life. So many historic sites no president ever slept at, yet they're still as a composite critically important to understand American history." Said Eric Deetz, Chicago Archaeologist and Time Team member.

The parent show in England has run for 15 years and surprised everybody when it proved live archaeology could make commercially viable television.

The show's pilot was an instant download hit and the first episode from Philadelphia airs on July 22nd on PBS.

Cool! A successful show will weave wonders for the public's interest and enthusiasm for archaeology and will no doubt inspire a new generation of talented scientist historians.

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it's always the lowercase g's

This weekend, whilst following links away from iLT, I stumbled upon the revelation that Futura - that good old neutral-modern sans standby - was originally designed to look like this.



Mind-blowing! To me, Futura today is a bit corporate, Helvetica's slightly more stylish sister. Though Wes Anderson of course uses it to great effect, I associate it primarily with Best Buy. Futura Classic, on the other hand, is like a renegade steampunk space captain. Check out those crazy g's!



Wikipedia can tell you more. My new life goal is to find an excuse to use that lowercase g in a professional project. Or as a sleeve emblem on an extraterrestrial military jacket.

(In other typeface news, I'm also lusting for this.)