My YouTube channel surpasses 400 subscribers. I posted over 530 videos. Most of them are shorts. It is still a milestone, nevertheless.

Ottavio, designed by David Jonathan Ross, is a sans-serif family honoring Ottavio Bottecchia who won the Tour de France in July 1924. It has wide, open letterforms with sweeping gestures and humanist qualities. With its unbalanced features (open terminals and triangular counterforms), Ottavio achieves balance through the rhythm of constant motion. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

With a smartphone in hands, I filmed lots of short clips, especially when our family was out skiing and riding. With short clips, I turned them into YouTube shorts. I enjoyed pairing the favorite videos with my favorite jazz tunes. Here’s a clip of my wife skiing and my son cruising down the steep green at Liberty.

I graduated from La Salle University in 2001 with a BA in digital arts and multimedia design. I was in the inaugural graduating class of the DART program. Now, 24 years later, I am invited back to my alma mater to speak on typography. I am looking forward to connecting with my young design classmates tomorrow.

Whether skiing, snowboarding, web design, or jazz appreciation, when I wanted to explore something new, I dived in as deep as I could. Typography was no exception. I spent years not only practicing typography, but also picking up every book I could get my hands on. I even collected them so I can reread them in the future. If you are interested in typography, here are 30 books, which I have on my bookshelf, for you to discover the art and science of typesetting.

In the past two nights after work, I tuned up 3 boards and 6 pair of skis. Xuân and I have a board and a pair of skis. Đạo has a new pair of skis. I also tuned up his previous pairs to store away. I just looked up Alpine Ski Shop and price for basic tuning is $65 for skis and $50 for snowboard. I am saving us $540 by tuning them myself. Skiing and snowboarding are not cheap. I have to save whatever I can. I will finish up scraping the wax tonight.

Vũ Nguyễn writes:

Please remove what you wrote about nhạc sến being cheesy. Obviously you don’t truly enjoy it. If you want cheesy then take a look in the mirror.

To be honest, I can’t remember what I had written about Nhạc Sến. This is the only post that I could find about Nhạc Sến and “cheesy.” Reading it again, I did not knock on Nhạc Sến. Anyway, I am not going to remove what I had written.

2Advanced Studios was rebooted about seven months ago. The site is the same, but the platform has changed. They replaced Flash with Rive and React JS. The interaction is slick, but accessibility is still an issue. The all-cap typesetting is still horrendous. I am not excited about the return of the bygone era.

As of today, I have created 500+ connections on LinkedIn. I am not sure if anything will change. I hadn’t had any job offer on LinkedIn. I hadn’t found any meaningful connection. I use LinkedIn primarily to promote my work. Even that doesn’t bring much visibility. Nevertheless, it doesn’t hurt to use the platform for that. At least it is an additional space for me to share my new projects. I still use this blog to share my latest works.

I hadn’t post on my X account in years. Yesterday, I finally pulled the plug. I am not joining any new or alternative social platforms. I am still on LinkedIn, but it doesn’t seem to do anything for me. I am still active on Facebook because I have lots of family members there.