Author archive

Wurman’s Thought Process    (2016.01.22)

The kid hosts of Thought Process get their asses handed to them by Richard Saul Wurman. (Not the actual title of the show)

This week in type: All Bat-Helvetica breaks out over emoji dumplings (and: Spiekermann)    (2016.01.22)

(2016.01.22; posted 2017.06.27)

‘Cruising the Movies’    (2016.01.18)

Boyd McDonald, of Straight to Hell infamy, watched old movies in his fleabag rooming house. “Apart from the æsthetics, we know, do we not, who is more intelligent: Men who have sex or queens who represent themselves as being above it”

“Graphic design has become too easy”    (2016.01.09)

Fraser Muggeridge (no relation): “[P]rinted matter is about what you communicate subconsciously”

Worst gender politics of the year, wheelchair division    (2016.01.09)

Supercrip Bo Hedges: “[S]pinal-cord injury is one of the more heteronormative-looking disabilities you can have” (sic)

Not Russell Tovey’s bulldog    (2016.01.09)

Russell Tovey has no culture, let alone gay culture, and his poor snoutless hound is an abomi·fucking·nation

Book of the year    (2016.01.04)

Here by Richard McGuire, which has radically recalibrated my sense of time. (Nº 2: Norwegian Wood)

“Stefonknee units”    (2015.12.28)

You’d think people would know better than to be taken in by this month’s Worst Transgender, Paul Wolscht. And introducing Stefonknee units

This week in type: ä 4 SVG    (2015.12.21)

(2015.12.21; posted 2017.06.27)