May 28, 2008
Last week I was in the vast, wild, and sparsely populated lands of Alaska, where the air is crisp and moose roam free. Tonight my wife and I watched Manufactured Landscapes, a documentary film about Edward Burtynsky's photography of quarries, ...
May 10, 2008
I was just sifting through some of my old design work and found this illustration I made right after I finished school four years ago. Oddly, and perhaps ironically, the design program that I was enrolled in didn't offer any classes on typography. Thankfully, however, one of my teachers gave me ...
May 09, 2008
I'm over 20 years late to comment on this, but I found it to be quite fascinating: Erik Spiekermann's Post Mortem (PDF) article from ...
May 09, 2008
Certainly applicable to more than just type design — Fred Smeijers prefacing his book Counterpunch:
It seems that anything is possible now. We experience a world in which time, distance and production circumstances hardly seem important any more. But for this very reason,...
May 09, 2008
Milton Glaser in 2004, from Short History and the Longer View:
Being a legend is an accomplishment that is hard won and sadly ephemeral, but being part of human kind’s desire to make useful and beautiful things links us to a glorious history. … What...