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Archive for December 2007

   (2007.12.15)
Corrugated metal letters in sidewalk read BETT (with two boots at bottom of frame)
   (2007.12.15)

Gee, there’s confirmed Web skeptic Rick Poynor back writing for the Web. And without an (ac)credited editor!

   (2007.12.15)

Christopher Hume: “It will take time, but eventually Torontonians will learn to stop hating and love the new ROM”

   (2007.12.14)

As brilliantly summed up in Vanity Fair

   (2007.12.13)
Giant claws of yellow pavement grader dump dirty snow into yellow-green dumptruck
   (2007.12.12)
Huge doors of a streetcar garage are numbered 7 through 1 in fluorescent orange Frutiger
   (2007.12.11)

Further dissection of the Failed Redesign of the Year

   (2007.12.10)
Two green front doors are numbered 122 in an OCR-like font and 121 in metal adhesive numbers

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