Archive for category: Books

Stupid code pays    (2009.07.28)

Tumblrs have stupid code and attract stupid – and smart – writers. It’s the stupid ones who make off with the loot

‘Unwebbable’    (2009.07.21)

Today my article, long in gestation, appears at A List Apart: “Unwebbable” examines how not every document can be folded and mutilated into a “Web page.”

‘Do Good Design’    (2009.07.17)

Do Good Design by David Berman lays on the ethics a bit thick, I think

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (5)    (2009.07.03)

Mocking billionaire’s son and author Alain de Botton: “I recognized my desire to submit to the report’s conclusions in the hope of quelling my doubts about my future”

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (4)    (2009.07.02)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “In the evening, I ordered a breaded chicken escalope from room service, and ate it whilst sitting on my bed, reading a book on the history of art in the Low Countries.” (Then he cruised personal ads)

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (3)    (2009.07.01)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “ ‘Fuck off. We don’t give tours,’ he responded decisively”

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (2)    (2009.06.30)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “[I]t seemed not to have a centre where citizens could gather for fellowship, javelin contests and philosophical debate”

Mock the Poncy Anglophile Week (1)    (2009.06.29)

Mocking Alain de Botton: “It should not be presumed from this image that the author is in any way lacking in empathy or bonhomie, or that he would be unable (as is sometimes suspected of intellectuals) to take his place, man to man, amongst a group of illiterate Indian Ocean sailors [continues for some time]”

‘Women of Design’    (2009.06.27)

Why aren’t there more wymmynz in graphic design? This new book answers a nonsensical question