Archive for July 2004

Karmann chartreuse    (2004.07.28)

Somewhat more nauseating colour than last time, but at least the Karmann Ghia script is nicer than the VOLKSWAGEN nameplate.

For fun, it’s the loneliest toy    (2004.07.28)

Yes, a pink slinky alone, abandoned, forgotten down on the subway tracks.

Avant Garde cyclists    (2004.07.28)

These delightful, anachronistic blue-green signs are virtually unnoticeable as one whizzes, or indeed wheezes, along the boardwalk.

I prefer my ligatures bold, capitalized, and decked out in bell bottoms (which dutifully snag in your cogs).

Design sites do Web standards    (2004.07.28)

Or rather, they don’t do Web standards, either

Date-due receipt    (2004.07.27)

Text on Things: Date-due receipt

Division of Human Engineering Personality Inventory    (2004.07.26)

You could be Warren Beatty. I mean, *he’s* an actor

Invert truisms articulated by the Pet Shop Boys (I)    (2004.07.25)

First in a series

‘The Collected Works of Jan Tschichold Turn Up’    (2004.07.24)

Peter Saville; ‘24 Hour Party People’

Sorry, wrong number (and font)    (2004.07.21)

I just love the Ombudsman’s commitment to accessibility: Tacking on a corrected TTY number using not only the wrong font but Is for 1s.