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Archive for March 2007

   (2007.03.16)

But almost no nonsense

   (2007.03.16)

Or, more accurately, about TransitCity.CA

   (2007.03.16)

We are getting a mere three hours to tour Bay Lower station during Doors Open, but it will be free

   (2007.03.16)

I don’t know where to begin with this one, given its mishmash of el-cheapo jumbo Arial, delicate Optima subheds, and extremely superklassy faux-marquee. (Do you really think parking is ever worth $20,000 anywhere outside Japan?)

Storefront completely covered in type for the Star of Downtown ‘townsuites,’ with drawings of light bulbs, like a marquee, at the edges of some signs

This development, by the way, is half a block down the street from the fantastically overdense and troubled St. James Town, and right across from the Food Basics.

   (2007.03.15)

Can somebody tell Larry Kramer to shut the fuck up?

   (2007.03.14)

What are those ‘small square containers’ out of which Starbucks pours its organic milk?

   (2007.03.14)

Web typography sucks, apparently. But ‘ and ” are not ′ and ″

   (2007.03.13)
Script and handlettered type on silvery store-window vestibule reads 724½ NEW Doyle’s DISCOUNT CIGAR STORE

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