Author archive

Bay-relief    (2007.01.19)

The backlighting straddles the border between two greens, 1980s-condo/bridesmaid-taffeta sea-foam and minty-fresh.

In which Web design reaches print    (2007.01.18)

Unreadable grey text

It’s Write Stephen Merritt Lyrics with a Diacritic on Every Letter Day    (2007.01.18)

‘Ƭȟëřè åṝé ƫŵõ ķïńđš óƒ ƥèöṗḹȅ: (ã) Ṁÿ ľȭṽȩ ȃňḓ İ; (ḇ) Ṑȶḧḛṟ’

TTC redesign    (2007.01.16)

Souris, station de métro Boisvert, janvier 2007

High-fructose Queen St.    (2007.01.15)

The letterspaced Century caps are an oldschool embellishment to this tanker o’ obesity.

Garish bus wrap    (2007.01.14)

Sometime in the mists of the ’90s, I wrote an article for Publish on large-format printing. I became something of an expert, and I really wanted to see bus wraps used for some kind of artistique purpose, particularly if applied to a postmodernist vehicle like an Orion II. It never happened. Babs Kruger’s bus wrap (1997; later co-opted) was a disaster: Never send a polemical feminist artist to do a typographer’s job.

Nonetheless:

In order, I would use the current lexicon to describe these colours as violetred3, yellow3, lightslateblue, and sandybrown.

Children of MoPix    (2007.01.11)

After an interregnum of two full years, I finally went to a movie

Rows o’ soup    (2007.01.11)

Saville fears for us in our mid-life    (2007.01.11)

‘I find it quite worrying meeting people in their mid-life who are still fascinated by, you know, typefaces and layout’