Archive for September 2006

Encroaching ceiling insulation    (2006.09.30)

If you don’t want to take my word for it    (2006.09.29)

Myths about Canadian English, and why your B.A. in English lit does not set you up to do captioning

Beach BIA banner    (2006.09.29)

Yeah, so this is the kind of pole banner the street-furniture committee didn’t know about.

It also represents the chosen typography of the Beach BIA (né Beaches BIA), Dax. Certainly such typography is not trendy and will in no way clash with existing and future streetsigns and street furniture.

And by the way, why not Barmeno instead?

Confidential to Jeremy Kramer    (2006.09.29)

Notes from an argument I had with Toronto streetsign designer Jeremy Kramer

Notes from Toronto streetsign introduction    (2006.09.27)

Notes from public meeting on proposed new Toronto streetsign designs, Metro Hall, 2006.09.26

Script or italic?    (2006.09.25)

Curious orange bleachers    (2006.09.24)

Mosaïcism    (2006.09.23)

Throughout the east end, there are several such entranceway floors reading TAMBLYN in mosaic tile.

Engineers and AIDS    (2006.09.23)

Things must have changed mightily if the engineer marching band serenades participants of the AIDS Walk.