Yesterday or the day before I was doing some layout design exercises and while I was doing that I built this.
There’s a blog entry here explaining the background to it. Out of interest, the beach is InchyDoney in Cork.
As I don’t push the flickr account where it’s hosted too much, I got some surprise today to discover that it had pulled oh almost 100 views since it was posted. This was 20 times as many as the other photographs posted with it at the same time. Flickr stats is not giving me an inbound link and a google search isn’t finding it either. I suspect it was picked up somewhere through the Irish surfing community so I went to one of the main surfing fora to see if it was posted there.
I’ve spent some time on their fora before and not always found the Irish surfing community to be especially welcoming. I know the odd individuals are very decent but online, my overwhelming impression is that they are bolshy and arrogant. There was a dust up between boards.ie and the surfing community over a beach in Kerry because the surfing community in Ireland are into their secret spots and, online, are prone not to have any sense nor reason. There’s a google surf map that resulted from the community in boards.ie making it clear what they thought of some of the surfing ethos in Ireland. There’s occasionally an element of elitism that grates a little. I haven’t surfed in a little a while to be honest. But that’s by way of an aside.
Over on the Irishsurfer.com forum, it doesn’t look like much has changed in the Irish surfing community. Not welcoming, remarkably possessive. In a way it’s sad because Ireland has some fantastic beaches and waves – a real, real asset. The point has been made to them – even within their own community – that it’s a bit hypocritical to be ultra secretive and possessive about surfing locations in Ireland when they’re happy to go travelling to other countries to find surf locations.
Anyway, I didn’t find an inbound link to the image above there so wherever the link is coming from I have no idea. Strange though.
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Your design is great. I ran my late father’s printing business for over 7 years and in the process acquired a love of expressive typefaces. I have been playing with several Zapfino fonts lately – and I’m trying to find uses for them!
Thanks Niall.
I hadn’t come across the Zapfino family before – they are lovely…I will file away I think.
The typeface above, by the way, is TallPaul. I really like it but do not remember when I picked it up. It is on a couple of the free font sites and the guy who designed it has a site at tallpaul.com
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