Posted in dublin, Planning, Art, Images, Ireland on Sep 4th, 2007 4 Comments »
‘Well the plinth has arrived on O’Connell Street’, posted GrahamH on the Archiseek forum at the end of August, ‘it’s located to the northern end of the taxi rank, at the junction with Cathal Brugha Street.’
This created a certain amount of interest on the forum, as many were eager to discover what last minute addition […]
Posted in Helvetica, Typeface, Art, Images on Jun 28th, 2007 6 Comments »
A movie about typeface! Are you fucking serious? Apparently he was. We both have the same job, and some of that requires a working knowledge of different sorts of font. ‘Okay’, I said, ‘its one thing selecting the right font for a document that’ll be read by a maximum of 15 people in order to […]
Posted in Art, Images on Dec 18th, 2006 No Comments »
A very long time ago on this blog, there was mention of a certain Twenty Major and his almost Proustian interest* in the naming of female genitalia. In a spirit of digression, this reminded me of a poetry class back in college where the brandname of ‘Silk Cut’ cigarettes was referred to.
In Elizabethan times a […]