Author archive

Type Week, allegedly    (2005.07.12)

Nobody else bothered to look up Bloomberg’s official proclamation of Type Week in New York, so I did

Lapidary and raised letters    (2005.07.11)

A complex and outstanding example of three-dimensional type and natural building materials that is difficult to photograph.

Lande Rovère    (2005.07.11)

Who knew there was so much of interest in the topography of the ancient Lande Rovère?

Post no green    (2005.07.11)

The Owl of Caerbannog?    (2005.07.10)

Yes, that was a giant bronze statue of an owl found in a BACK OF TRUCK.

Then of course they had to install it.

And now they’ll have to shut the branch down for a full day to pour additional reinforcing concrete.

I joshed with the grizzled, chain-smoking sculptor that we needed a matching statue of the owl’s prey. A couple of rats, he said. No, I countered, a bunny.

No-longer-mystery vehicle    (2005.07.10)

Actually, it was a 928.

The lay-back (“slantnose”) headlamps were the dead giveaway – though I did photograph them ambiguously and Porsche had annoyingly diluted the design trope through reuse in 968s and a few other models I can’t track down.

Homage    (2005.07.06)

‘An embodiment of physical beauty so self-contained that sex in any form is just a type of homage’

Great moments in epenthesis    (2005.07.02)

Silent secret sacrifice is so passé anyway

Corbelosaurus    (2005.07.01)

Microsoft Office dinosaur ads: Now also typographically anomalous-cum-insulting!