http://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/09/solidbore/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/09/solidbore/comment-page-1/#comment-1800 1 ≠ I ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:37:26 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/09/solidbore/#comment-1800 [...] nonsense, promulgated by snobs like that bore Bringhurst who have not read anything written after Jane Austen croaked, ostensibly improves typographic [...] [...] nonsense, promulgated by snobs like that bore Bringhurst who have not read anything written after Jane Austen croaked, ostensibly improves typographic [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/09/solidbore/comment-page-1/#comment-1494 People are books too! ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:55:05 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/09/solidbore/#comment-1494 [...] I am pretty much the only person who thinks graphic-design criticism is a rotting corpse. Barely anyone has noticed. But what has made me unpopular in certain snob circles is calling Robert Bringhurst a crashing bore. [...] [...] I am pretty much the only person who thinks graphic-design criticism is a rotting corpse. Barely anyone has noticed. But what has made me unpopular in certain snob circles is calling Robert Bringhurst a crashing bore. [...]

]]> http://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/09/solidbore/comment-page-1/#comment-565 Why accountancy is not boring – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:17:50 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/05/09/solidbore/#comment-565 [...] It is only in recent years, and through the popularity of the Web, that it has become OK, at long last, to be interested in linguistics through the lens of writing. It is suddenly OK to find writing systems interesting, and not merely as juvenile Bringhurst-style showcases of just how bizarre foreigners’ writing can be. It has never been more OK to be interested in fonts, or typography (not quite the same thing), or graphic design (also not quite the same). It is even OK to be interested in psychology of reading. [...] [...] It is only in recent years, and through the popularity of the Web, that it has become OK, at long last, to be interested in linguistics through the lens of writing. It is suddenly OK to find writing systems interesting, and not merely as juvenile Bringhurst-style showcases of just how bizarre foreigners’ writing can be. It has never been more OK to be interested in fonts, or typography (not quite the same thing), or graphic design (also not quite the same). It is even OK to be interested in psychology of reading. [...]

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