Wednesday, September 19, 2012

:-)

"When an interviewer asked Nabokov how he ranked himself among great writers, [...] the writer replied, ''I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile -- some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.''



TYPOGRAPHIC MILESTONES; Happy Birthday :-) to You: A Smiley Face Turns 20
By Katie Hafner
New York Times September 19, 2002

Monday, September 17, 2012

Class prep



...thought I would show a video of Marshall McLuhan to my Visual Studies class today (after all, the medium is the...well, you know the rest...)

This one didn't make the cut, but it sure is good...

Saturday, September 08, 2012