While on the subject of Apple, I thought it befitting to look back at the commencement speech Steve Jobs delivered at Stanford in 2005. [embedyt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc[/embedyt] I’m always struck by the story he tells about stumbling into that calligraphy class at Reed College, and how a decade later when he was integrating typefaces into the Mac,… Read More
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