Archive for July 2005

B-links, July 18    (2005.07.18)

B-links, July 18

Hella    (2005.07.18)

Wow, this takes me back. Do they also still make Hakkapeliitta fog lamps and driving lamps?

(Hella, admittedly, fits on a lamp cover hella more conveniently than Hakkapeliitta would. And it’s a classic Helvetica usage. But are you supposed to stop your car in the pouring rain, walk out to the front bumper [at risk of being hit by another vehicle], and pull off the antimacassars just so you can switch the lights on?)

‘Nostalgic’ my arse    (2005.07.18)

Lucida fucking Fax is not fucking “nostalgic,” unless you were born in the 1980s.

Jittery Urdu outlining    (2005.07.18)

I don’t get this at all. The black type seems OK, I guess (and appears to show the Nastaliq writing style, with the shifting and angled baselines).

So why’d they have to go and outline everything in blue ballpoint?

Nixon in China; Mrs Eaves in Indochina    (2005.07.17)

Novelty Shoe Rebuilders    (2005.07.17)

Where they rebuild only the shoes that, say, Krusty the Clown or Sideshow Bob might wear.

Töö mänÿ dïërësës    (2005.07.17)

Is this like Walker, where the snap-on serifs can be attached even to the letter O?

The only good songs by Ladytron    (2005.07.15)

The only good songs by Ladytron

I’m supposed to read that?    (2005.07.15)

On a billboard that drivers are expected to read in an instant, yes, Audi typesets the phrase “going backward” backwards.

Good thing these fuckers got airbags out the arse, because after that kind of distraction, you may need ’em.