Chris Blog: August 2009

Weekend typographic treasures

Vintage Speedball lettering booklets, circa 1940 and 1922 (respectively)

Oh SK, how I love thee

Inspiration for a new painting, via Google Earth

Poetry Friday

In the Beginning was the End.

And God saw the Beginning and the End and was pleased.

And He asked the Beginning and the End to separate.

And they said No.

Then God was not pleased and threw a tantrum,

And said Why Not?

And the Beginning and the End said We Cannot.

And God said What Will You Do Then?

And the Beginning and the End said Just Watch Us.

-Gwendolyn MacEwen

"Genesis 2" (from Afterworlds)

Everything falls into place.

Window Triptych, Avery Coonley Playhouse, Riverside IL, 1912

By Frank Lloyd Wright

The Art Institute of Chicago

Drink of the gods.

"Dark Side of the Mug" drinking chocolate shot

Soma Chocolatemaker

55 Mill St., Toronto (The Distillery District)

Memory lane

Visual treats at the St. Lawrence Antique Market

Life in little squares.

One of my favourite pieces of art. Ever.

By Heather Corbett

"Even as a recalcitrant teenager I sensed graphic design's emotive potency. I didn't even know there was such a thing as graphic design, but I lovingly copied lettering from album covers, magazines, cereal boxes and comic books. I didn't copy other elements; only the lettering. I liked the way the particular letterforms gave words added meaning. I noticed the same words in a different typeface were not necessarily as beguiling."

-Adrian Shaughnessy

(source)

Small world.

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:

57 Asians

21 Europeans

14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south

8 Africans

52 would be female

48 would be male

30 would be caucasian

70 would be non-caucasian

30 would be Christian

70 would be non-Christian

89 would be heterosexual

11 would be homosexual