Machines to Enlarge the Ears - Noise for Airports

http://noiseforairports.com/post/243891819/machines-to-enlarge-the-ears

cynthia

I started writing a new series of poems today. What does it feel like when writer's block ends? It feels like somebody has left a hot bowl of soup inside my doorstep on a freezing night. Soup & buttered bread. I feel grateful.

Design - Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/arts/16iht-design16.html?_r=1

jerry

FYI - Above is a link to my Congressman Jerry Costello's page, which has links to complete versions of the recent bills passed on Health Care and versions still in the Senate committees.

rachel, wendy, steven, nora, jonathan, susan

I just checked out Rachel Carson's The Edge of the Sea (Houghton Mifflin 1998), the catalogue for the 2009 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian titled Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture by Wendy Wick Reaves, Woody Guthrie Art Works by Steven Brower & Nora Guthrie, Billy Bragg & Jeff Tweedy (Rizzoli 2005), and the book published on the occasion of the exhibition Goya's Last Works by Jonathan Brown and Susan Grace Galassi (the Frick Collection and Yale, 2006). Mostly I'm just glancing over at the books while moving between tasks like grading student projects, revising a long contract and rearranging my office to serve as both a meeting place and studio. So glad the sun is shining today!

IKEA says goodbye to Futura: idsgn (a design blog)

IKEA says goodbye to Futura: idsgn (a design blog)

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I just read that the Ikea catalog has the 3rd largest print run on earth, next to the Bible and Harry Potter.

I have used Futura in my paintings and installations since 1985. I used to be obsessed with the shape of the uppercase O, having projected it onto large canvases and painted it freehand with a brush many times in the days before large-format printing became affordable. I was also into the historic uses of it, and how very black, crisp, pompous and geometric it looked (looks). Now I admire it but totally dig so many other fonts.