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by Tobias Luetke.
Original Post: Typo Visual Identity
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Feed Description: Read the announcement: CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby, Baby!CD Baby is going rails. This is huge! If you don’t know CD Baby, its a distribution site with over 80.000 musicians under contract and its one of the biggest digital distributors of audio to Apple iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. Read all about it here. What is even more exciting about it is that I’m on board for the rewrite and I had chance to talk to Derek on the phone directly for a consulting session which might have played its little part in the decision to go with rails. Come monday I’ll work together with him and other rails contributor Jeremy Kemper to help crunch those 90k lines of PHP in beautifully compact code for which Rails and Ruby are known. Here is a quote from Derek’s announcement on his weblog: Like a lost soul walkin’ the earth, lookin’ for spirituality, that stumbles upon the right church with the right people at the right time, I’ve found my niche with Ruby. Its little itty-bitty community attracts some brilliant “think different” types with a love for beautiful code that do this for love, not money.
Its no secret that typo is starting to become one of the prestige rails applications.
Who would have thought two months ago when I setup trac after people literally harassed me into doing so.
Its a great example that good software comes out of projects which started out of the developers needs. Rails and Basecamp themselves are great examples of this and so Is the software I created for my own ecommerce store snowdevil ( Look forward for some announcements regarding its codebase in the coming months ).
Today another piece of the puzzle fell into place for the typo project. I’m pleased to announce that Justin Palmer joined the typo team. Justin will work on all aspects of frontend but will mainly coin the visual identity of typo. And he did so with a bang by singlehandedly creating this gorgeous new logo for the project.
Read his announcement here. Make sure to subscribe to his RSS as he will be documenting the process of creating the design.
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