A Quiz I Actually Wanted to Take

Go ahead, go find out. I’ll wait; after all, you’ve been waiting on me.
It was some time, wasn’t it? The snow, the wind . . . In my twenties, I was surprisingly well-acquainted with a guy who spent several months every couple years in Antarctica, where it is as cold and windy as it has [...]

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At Last, An Interesting Take on the U.S. Presidential Campaign

 
Yes, it still looks like this here.  Moscow School District has declared two snow days in a row–an unprecedented decision.  Between the snow and the wind, we’re only about one hatchet away from Overlook Hotel status.   
Luckily, our net access remains intact.  Which is how I found, at last, an interesting approach to the ongoing primary [...]

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Beck’s London Underground Map and Some Musings on Design

Joan gave me the coolest thing the other weekend–a long sheet of Italian wrapping paper with the London Underground map on it.   I’m in love with that map for a million reasons, including the fabulous Johnston Underground font (a collaboration with Eric Gill, no less), the use of color, and the memory of my own [...]

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Order of the Phoenix

Since the Harry Potter movies first started coming out, my parents have taken all the local grandchildren to see them; today we hit “Order of the Phoenix.”  And for once I found something to love:  a truly superb and inventive use of font throughout the film.
The wizarding newspaper, The Daily Prophet, is a central expositional [...]

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Another Marvelous Thing

Finished Light
Originally uploaded by Patrick Kovacich

Trolling the internet for steampunk coolness–because I am a big geek who would love to have this DIY “Problem Light” in my office, where it would have to be lit all the time–I came across this truly wonderful thing:
The Retro-gram!
Proving once again that I cannot resist good design, and that [...]

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