How to Say: Van Gogh by the BBC Pronunciation Unit.
Author: Stef (Page 40 of 61)
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Citing usage from 1949, the OED calls this mark the dog?s bollocks, which it defines as, ?typogr. a colon followed by a dash, regarded as forming a shape resembling the male sexual organs.? This is why I love scrounging around the linguistic scrap heap that is the OED. I always come across a little gold. And by ?gold,? I mean, ?vulgar, 60-year-old emoticons.?
The Secret History of Typography in the Oxford English Dictionary ? The Bygone Bureau
Good leading can carry the eye optically from one line to the next, giving it confidence and stability, and enabling it to absorb and remember more easily what has been read. When reading is smooth and easy, the meaning content of the words is grasped more clearly; they acquire more character and expression and etch themselves more sharply on the mind.
? Josef Müller-Brockmann, Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Inspirational magazine design by Anouk Rehorek (via AisleOne)
Phillippe Halsman?s Jump book at the Iconic Photos blog.
Ars Technica – frontpage
via Analysis shows genetic link between major mood disorders.
The blogosphere was born and the global economy fell to pieces. And yet nothing in the corporate zeitgeist shifted an iota. Though the cells were constantly regenerated, the parent entity remained exactly the same. Like hundreds of American businesses, it was obsessed with short-term profitability, the future be damned. And no one who had any serious power over I.D. seemed to understand anything about design.
(via A Photo Editor)