Author archive

News photo of the year    (2013.02.17)

Oscar Pistorius in court, by Antoine de Ras, who offers superexclusive details on how he got the shot

Etsy: We’re ‘diverse’ because we let a few girls program    (2013.02.13)

At Etsy, as elsewhere in Silicon Valley, computer programming is identified as a desirable male-dominated job half of whose positions must simply be handed to women

…needed a hug    (2013.02.09)

Árpád Miklós needed a hug

Courier Prime: Continuing to solve the wrong problem with screenplay typography    (2013.02.08)

John August’s Courier Prime typeface gets its problems exactly backward

Spencer Cox    (2013.02.03)

Spencer Cox memorial service

A bad month for pop linguistics    (2013.01.29)

“Toronto,” words of the year, “sk(c)optical” (all sic)

Ryerson prof lets students contemplate manslaughter of blind pedestrians    (2013.01.24)

Ryerson architecture prof George Kapelos failed to teach his students that woonerfs are lethally dangerous to blind people

‘Eye’ 83    (2013.01.22)

Eye 83, filled to the brim with features on designers you’ve read about for decades and other designers so successful they don’t need clients anymore

‘The Coach House way of doing things’    (2013.01.21)

What is “the Coach House way of doing things”? (I expect artisanal publishing to produce beautiful objects you will love to read)