Archive for category: Books

Overpromised, underdelivered    (2007.08.19)

Why Chris Calori’s Signage and Wayfinding Design is shite (vague shite at that)

‘Canadian Television Today’    (2007.07.31)

Canadian TV in a sentence: “[W]hat Human Cargo offers is the unsmiling, straightforward and sincere version of a myth of Canada that may well be desirable but comes with so much elitist baggage that it needs to be taken down a peg or two by also embracing Trailer Park Boys”

‘Design City Toronto’    (2007.06.16)

A book by Toronto writers about Toronto architecture… written in British English and typeset in Helvetica Light

‘Dispatches from the New Frontier: Writing for the Internet’    (2007.05.05)

By, of all people, Camille Paglia. Is Web writing really ‘evanescent’?

‘We must reject European music categorically’    (2007.04.28)

Shteyngartism

Quest for Farber    (2007.02.15)

Trying to find Celia Farber’s book. Also, editor’s note: How do you spell ‘saliva’?

Cipe Pineles    (2006.12.10)

Cipe Pineles: A Life of Design by Martha Scottford

Acronyms in Paradise    (2006.12.09)

Excerpts from Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks

DS silhouettism    (2006.12.08)

Surely every household requires an outline of a Citroën DS