Archive for category: Typography

‘Why can’t computers read the Goof sign?’    (2011.02.09)

Come out to my Ignite Toronto presentation, 2011.02.10 at the Drake. (Keyword: Mongolian cheesemonger). (Updated)

‘Mad Men Unbuttoned’: Sometimes blogs should stay blogs    (2010.12.08)

Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s Mad Men Unbuttoned worked better as postings on the Awl

The crisis in book design (for once, averted)    (2010.12.03)

I have the scoop on the design of the Giller-winning Sentimentalists. Also: Family Compact publishers, could you go fuck yourselves?

Canada’s national newspaper covers the pressing issue of ‘diary subsidies’    (2010.11.28)

There is no central copy or readback desk at the Globe and Mail. The tale of Australia’s “diary subsidies” tells us why that is actually not a good idea

Possibly not the best way to discuss ‘plain text’    (2010.11.10)

David Pogue’s mishmash of ASCII and em dashes

Angie    (2010.09.30)

Have you seen my calling card? Perhaps, if you are especial, the red one?

Battle of the business card    (2010.09.23)

Patrick Bateman, American Psycho: “Look at that subtle off-white colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God – it even has a watermark”

Another failure of public typography    (2010.09.07)

Women’s College Hospital in Toronto proposes to plaster Arial caps (with neutral apostrophe) all over their windows