Archive for category: Asides

The problem of small caps    (2011.06.27)

Interview with Tim Ahrens

Ed Bernero: Male-oriented TV shows    (2011.06.27)

TV showrunner Ed Bernero: “Something with real sort of male themes and male strength… the things that appeal to us, the things we compete for. Macho in a different sense – the kind of things that we think makes us a man. It doesn’t really exist”

‘Trying to find answers to original design challenges’    (2011.06.27)

Gerard Unger: “If type designers would concentrate more on originality – not only personal originality, but trying to find answers to original design challenges — then I think we could use more designers”

The House of Homosexual Culture    (2011.06.25)

A cultural institution unthinkable here

Library copy of ‘Gay Times’ with half the nude bodies rubber-stamped    (2011.06.21)

An issue of Gay Times I borrowed from the library has rubber-stamp markings plunked onto many pages showing bare-chested or nearly-nude guys

Slavoj Žižek ends an interview    (2011.06.21)

“This is all? My God! Good. Goodbye!”

Peter Saville’s unprecedented freedom    (2011.06.17)

“At Factory, I had a freedom that was unprecedented in communications design. We lived out an ideal, without business calling the shots. It was a phenomenon”

Memphisean    (2011.06.16)

The mottled, aqua-triangled Memphis-manqué ’80s æsthetic

CBC Electronic    (2011.06.16)

CBC Electronic has no mandate and no budget, and next to no profile