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Archive for October 2010

Milton and the Road to Hell

October 28, 2010 | No Comments | View

With Halloween nigh (and daylight savings next week), this week feels like the perfect time to get a little darker with the content. Plus, any time we can make reason to mention Milton Glaser and his lists, well you know we do. So here we have it: Milton Glaser’s Road to Hell. Not as in [...]

Street Level and Rising: Dulux Let’s Colour

October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment | View

“If your world was all black and if your world was all white, then you wouldn’t get much color out of life now right?” – {If you need to Google that quote, then you should definitely Google that quote. You’ll be in for a treat.} When it comes to the Aluminum/Aluminium spelling quarrel, after you [...]

Where it’s at: The Typographic Map

October 14, 2010 | 2 Comments | View

This week, we stumbled across another of those articles of badassery that immediately becomes the coolest thing we’ve seen all week, and so of course we felt obsessively compelled to share with you. The typographic maps Axis Maps are turning out don’t need a whole heck of a lot of introduction or explanation, and that’s [...]

Helvetica, Condensed

October 7, 2010 | No Comments | View

What makes Helvetica great outlives the ebb and flow of people thinking it’s great–and that’s pretty great. While Helvetica’s 50th birthday was almost four years ago, and the full-on milestone fontcrush party is officially in the “if we go to sleep now, we’re not gonna get up in time to check out of our room” [...]