January 2008
7 posts
A little bit of Milk
Castro Street, nexus of San Francisco’s greatest neighborhoods and a cultural and historical home for the gay right’s movement, is turning back the clock to the mid 1970s for Hollywood. Store fronts all along the neighborhood’s main strip are being redone in period style, most notably - and nosalgically - Milk’s Castro Camera is back, at least with Sean Penn’s face in...
Hot or Not: Trying my hand at web dev
I’ve been out of touch lately, but among other things am back to vigorous design work for Diesel/Bloc 11. Already I’m a design-loving layman getting paid to do the stuff for real (is there any more reviled stripe of graphic designer?), and now I’m diving into from-scratch web design. I welcome comments and stinging criticism as we hastily try to get this thing up and running,...
The wrath of the glue stick
Scrapbooking bloggers called it “Hall of Fame-Gate,” naming it the top scrapbooking scandal of 2007. They compared it to the performance-enhancing-drug controversies involving major league baseball player Barry Bonds and Olympic track star Marion Jones.
Fantastic, from the L.A. Times: A scrapbook career in shreds.
The great thing is that all these forty- to sixty-something women...
Moving on up
Rolling Stone/Chicago Tribune columnist Greg Kot has noticed our boy Ezra; the very favorable piece ran in yesterday’s Trib, and Ezra (along with the rest of us) was pretty excited to see it.
Coupled that with an appearance on a Best of 2007 list at Time Out New York, and it would seem like the boy is moving somewhere fast. Better listen up if you want to stay ahead of the curve!
links for 2008-01-12
The Hardest Working Presidential Candidate Logo
In defense of Barack’s campaign logo, which I think is pretty gosh darn brilliant.
(tags: obama politics branding color graphicdesign design logo)
Twelve Essential Photographic Rules - - PopPhotoSeptember 2007
A collection of rules of thumb for photography: how slow of a shutter speed you can pull off, calculate print size, and how to...
Which Garamond do you prefer?
Some fascinating and well-written analysis of the many faces of one of the greats, in Garamond v Garamond: Physiology of a typeface
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My year in cities: 2007 edition
Reprising last year’s meme, here is my year in cities. Alas, no foreign travel for me in 2007, though I did get around the northeast pretty handily - I guess that is what comes from a summer spent back in Boston. Our low-budget spring break road trip through California barely registers here, with only a night at Rosie’s down in San Diego and a few nights at my house in the Bay Area....