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Shutterstock founder Jon Oringer is stepping down from his role as CEO

14 Feb

Jon Oringer, founder of stock image company Shutterstock, has announced plans to step down from his current role as CEO after 16 years. Oringer won’t be leaving the company, however; he’ll transition to a new role as Executive Chairman of the Board. Stan Pavlovsky, Shutterstock’s current President and COO, will take over the role of CEO starting on April 1.

Oringer announced the news in a Medium post on Thursday, explaining that Shutterstock has ‘reached a pivotal juncture in our growth trajectory […] our business has grown and evolved to a point where we could all benefit from a CEO that has a different set of skills than I have.’

Shutterstock was launched in 2003 out of Oringer’s small New York City apartment and the company has managed to be profitable every year since. Pavlovsky joined the company in 2019, bringing what Oringer says is ‘the ideal skill-set and mind-set to take our business to the next level and it is all of these qualities that gave us the confidence to elevate him to COO, President, and now CEO.’

The news comes alongside Shutterstock’s Q4 2019 financial results, which reveal that the company made $ 166.4 million in revenue, a 3% increase over the same quarter in 2018. However, the company’s net income dropped by 63% to $ 20.1 million in 2019. Over the last few years, Shutterstock has seen its market cap drop from a 2014 peak at around $ 3.5 billion down to less than $ 2 billion.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Future Fonts: Tracing the Role of Typography in Science Fiction in Films

04 Aug

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Whether intentionally retro, as in Stranger Things, or overtly futuristic, as in RoboCop, the role of typography in a movie goes well past the title, subtly but powerfully shaping the world viewers are invited to experience.

Dave Addey, author and creator of Typeset in the Future, is as meticulous as he is obsessed, analyzing appearances of type in film line by line, providing insights, context and speculative answers to various uses (as well as typo corrections).

It started with Eurostile Bold Extended, which has made appearances from Star Trek to Wall-E. Since then, he has written about typography in Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Moon, and in anticipation of the sequel: Blade Runner.

With fonts you get a lot of context for free,” says Addey. “You’ve established the time frame for your movie in seconds without a lot of special effects or backstory.” It also tells you something about the world, like: when a single megacorp runs everything and its typeface is consequently found everywhere.

He watches films over and over again, taking notes then tracking down type, sometimes manually by searching through old books to find exact matches (in other cases: the typography is custom, making the process frustrating).

And type is just part of the equation: he looks at iconography and other design elements too, piecing together a larger picture of the various strategies in play and how they relate to the core narrative.

By zooming in on this one aspect of films, he often traces connections that are easy to miss, like: a newspaper being held by the lead character in Blade Runner later appearing as the liner for a drawer. For fans of sci-fi and design, his blog will take you deeper into films than you realized you could go — it is well worth checking out.

More about the project: “This site is dedicated to typography and iconography as it appears in sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV shows. It’s inspired by the Typeset In The Future trope I added to TV Tropes. (If you know of more good sci-fi font examples, please do add them to that page.)”

Just Your Type: Kooky, Real & Physical Typography & Fonts

The art of typography goes far beyond Arial and Helvetica. There is a certain elegance in the way that typographers can take a standard set of letters and turn them into unique and lovely works …

In Your (Type)Face: 12 Textual Examples of Typography Art

Typography is traditionally a rather flat pursuit: letters on a page, as beautifully designed as they may be, are still just two-dimensional images. But a growing number of artists and designers …

Down to the Letters: Amusing Animated Helvetica Alphabet

Unusual fonts and fun typefaces are fantastic enough, but when you combine unusual typefaces with stop-motion animation you’ve got something really special. The Alphabet 2 project from Italian …

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Upgrading and its role in the art of mobile photography

28 Nov

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Mobile photography has often made a virtue out of the comparative technological restrictions of phones’ relatively primitive cameras, but that doesn’t mean its practitioners are immune from the lure (and benefits) of upgrading. Over on Connect mobile photographer Star Rush talks about how her photography changed, and how it didn’t, when she upgraded her handset and found herself with an upgraded shooting experience.

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Connect: Does the iPad have a role to play in your photo workflow?

16 Oct

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Since the launch of the original iPad, Apple’s tablet has held great appeal for photographers as a way to show off their work on a sleek, portable, stylish device. But, with its high resolution ‘Retina’ display, does it deserve to be taken more seriously, and given a chance to earn its place in your photographic workflow?

News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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