Archive for the year 2004

Quintessential ’80s Helvetica signage in Lucite    (2004.05.07)

Firefox: Still a ridiculous name    (2004.05.07)

From Bruce McCall’s Zany Afternoons, p. 107:

So All-Fired New They Make Tomorrow Seem Like Yesterday!

’58 Bulgemobiles!

Fireblast · Flashbolt · Blastfire · Firewood

Too Great Not to Be Changed,
Too Changed Not to Be Great!

Blacklister    (2004.05.05)

Blackletter type: Know the connotations!

Great artists get demoted to ‘entertainment reporter’    (2004.05.04)

Judy Stoffman: Inaccurate and a little too derivative?

¡Ay curmudgeon!    (2004.05.03)

Seeing oneself in ‘I, Curmudgeon’

They have nothing to lose but their haitches    (2004.05.03)

The startling letdown of meeting the authoress of ‘Eats, Shoots & Leaves’

1:½(1+√5)    (2004.05.01)

What everyone needs in a statue, or in a man: Proportion

Why all the photos?    (2004.04.30)

About fawny.blog: Why all the photos?

Derelict on Heward Ave.    (2004.04.30)

As the graffiti (unexpectedly, it is not actually found on this building) otherwise tells us, THIS SHOULD BE HOUSING. A suspicious fire drove tenants out years ago. Suddenly there’s scaffolding. No doubt they’ll remove the apartment block’s signal feature: It carries one of the few remaining street signs actually affixed to a building.