¿How do you design a year?

June 8, 2008 5:16 PM

The 2007 Feltron Annual Report . via
posted by signal (13 comments total)

Previously.
posted by metabrilliant at 5:31 PM on June 8, 2008

What font is that with the i-to-n ligature? very nice
posted by about_time at 5:36 PM on June 8, 2008

I'm curious about this business about eating horse.

I'm also a little appalled that I read closely enough, for enough pages, to discover that this dude's eaten horse.
posted by nebulawindphone at 6:04 PM on June 8, 2008

I have eaten horse, in Paris, just once.
Once was enough.
posted by Dizzy at 6:31 PM on June 8, 2008

A pile of jpegs? Even a pdf would've been better.

(Did you hear that, you wanker? EVEN A PDF WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER!)
posted by ryanrs at 6:44 PM on June 8, 2008

Huh, I thought that the 2007 report was already mentioned on MeFi.

Anyway, I got the 2006 report and it was pretty awesome. This guy definitely knows how to present mundane information in a beautiful way.
posted by roll truck roll at 6:47 PM on June 8, 2008

Last year I saw this and thought I would make a project out of keeping and organizing every receipt I got in 2008. The morning of January 1st, finding only pre-made screwdriver mix and half of a mysterious Red Baron pizza (note: I have never bought a Red Baron pizza) in my fridge, I stepped over my unconscious houseguests and went to the corner store and the Walgreens for hangover supplies. At the Walgreens I accidentally threw out the receipt from the corner store.

Long story short: the personal fortitude it would take to track the particulars of one's life in this fashion is nothing short of miraculous. Keep setting the bar, Feltron.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 6:58 PM on June 8, 2008 [1 favorite]

This is pretty fucking cool. But I'm looking for the heading: OCD MEDICATIONS TAKEN: ZERO
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:23 PM on June 8, 2008 [2 favorites]

[citation needed]
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:09 AM on June 9, 2008

For anyone interested, the display font used (not the one with ligatures) for the titles is Steelfish which is a free font:

http://www.dafont.com/steelfish.font
posted by rmmcclay at 2:19 AM on June 9, 2008 [2 favorites]

I need to add that I'm an infographic and typography freek (ie lover!).

This is one of the best modern examples I've seen of both.

I still can't get over how well Feltron keeps track of his minutiae.

Thanks, signal, for the signal.
posted by rmmcclay at 6:58 AM on June 9, 2008

You're very welcome rmmcclay. Glad to meet a kindred spirit.
I too would like to know what the ligature-ish font is. Whatthefont was no help.
posted by signal at 8:58 AM on June 9, 2008

Wait a minute, am I the only one who can't read the text? Six point glyphs and antialiasing from the 90s kinda defeats the purpose of pretty fonts, don't you think?
posted by ryanrs at 2:15 PM on June 9, 2008