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Paula Scher on the Bush administration’s record

July 6, 2007 Blog

Pentagram partner Paula Scher speaks truth to power. A timely reminder for those designers who claim that graphic design has nothing to do with politics.

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Helvetica: A Film by Gary Hustwit

February 9, 2007 Uncategorized
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As part of the forthcoming Logo Cities Symposium, we’ve secured the Québec premiere of Gary Hustwit’s new documentary Helvetica. And Gary will be there too. Yay.

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The Best War Ever

October 9, 2006 Uncategorized
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Do you see what I see?

September 26, 2006 Blog
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When I opened Saturday’s edition of The Globe and Mail and saw this photo, all I noticed, at least initially, were the two white horns protruding from the man on the left’s head. On further inspection, I decided they weren’t so much wildly out of place as simply on the wrong head.

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Save Farine Five Roses

September 5, 2006 Uncategorized
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I’ve just launched a simple website to join the effort to try to save the Farine Five Roses sign in Montréal. One feature that people seem to be enjoying is the anagram game, which allows reimaginings of the sign’s lettering in order to send a message to the city, to ADM (the owners of the [...]

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Of Pageants and Publicity

August 22, 2006 Uncategorized
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John Berger, in his classic book Ways of Seeing, writes eloquently about the often bizarre juxtapositions that occur between editorial and advertising messages. Here, for example, the unfolding news story about the capture of a suspect in the murder of a young pageant queen sits adjacent to an ad for the movie Little Miss Sunshine [...]

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Back – and Blue

August 17, 2006 Uncategorized
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Well, not blue exactly, but still immensely ambivalent about blogging. However, since I’ve been too busy enjoying my Summer to completely revamp my website, I’m just going to use this space as an ‘occasional noticeboard’. So: it’s not a blog, OK? This image is a delectable example of public lettering, captured just a few days [...]

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May 12, 2006 Uncategorized
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New issue of Public

February 26, 2006 Blog
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Now that’s what I call public lettering

January 20, 2006 Uncategorized
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“44 activists from the Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise appeal for help in their campaign to end whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale sanctuary, by spelling out the words `Help End Whaling!’ using their bodies. After spending a month battling to defend whales from the grenade tipped harpoons of the whaling fleet, the international [...]

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The persecution of Steven Kurtz continues.

January 18, 2006 Uncategorized
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New year, old joke.

January 4, 2006 Uncategorized
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(Original sketch courtesy Hugh Macleod.)

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