Archive for July 2005

Miami Is for Tackies    (2005.07.24)

Cletus and Brandine write Miami’s gay advertising copy

There’s no such thing as a footnote    (2005.07.24)

Gruber’s footnotes are nothing of the sort

Mofo    (2005.07.24)

‘McKnight mouths the word “motherfucker” ’

Close-Order Swanning About    (2005.07.22)

‘I’ll scratch your eyes out’

I just saved you 17 grand    (2005.07.21)

How to debunk typographic research

Longhorn type and accessibility    (2005.07.20)

I AM PRIMED (R) AND OPTIMIZED (R) FOR BLINDNESS

Cranes building cranes    (2005.07.19)

How do they get those giant cranes onto construction sites? They use other cranes to build them.

AK2K    (2005.07.19)

It figures that Alaskans would be übersurvivalists and would still feel cheated! that Y2K didn’t result in apocalypse after all.

(If the notation really refers to the Alaska Gold Rush Centennial [Caslon Antique, anyone?], then why doesn’t it read AK 1K or AK K?)

Collect-o-Mania    (2005.07.19)

I have a vague memory of Letraset faces like this one.