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The Strange Typography of Andrea Arnold’s ‘Wuthering Heights’
Update: an expanded version of this post, with new and more definitive information, has been published at Fonts In Use. Andrea Arnold’s transgressive adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel...
View ArticleJonathan Hoefler Talks About Webfonts
Type at the Crossroads, Jonathan Hoefler’s presentation about designing fonts for the screen, is essential viewing for designers and type enthusiasts. Hoefler, the preeminent type designer and founder...
View ArticleBehind Facebook
It’s rare that discussions about the people behind Facebook go beyond Mark Zuckerberg, but two recent articles offer some new insights into the company’s unheralded design and content strategy teams....
View ArticleThe High Art of the Airline Safety Card
In the Paris Review, Avi Steinberg offers a sardonic yet insightful analysis of the design of airline safety cards: A 1992 cross-cultural study conducted at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University...
View ArticleSkeletons in the Portfolio
Recently, while discussing with a friend a logo I designed some years ago, I left him almost shellshocked when I condemned it with savage force. The poor guy: all he could do was stand there frozen,...
View ArticleMiranda July presents ‘A Tip for the Easily Distracted’
Care of Nowness, artist/writer/filmmaker Miranda July (who is, incidentally, one of my creative heroes) uses an offcut from her film ‘The Future’ to demonstrate one method for avoiding today’s...
View ArticleSusan Cain on Creativity, Solitude and the Dangers of Brainstorming
Susan Cain’s article, The Rise of the New Groupthink, in the New York Times confirms something I’ve known instinctively for a long time: you’re more creative when you work by yourself. As she puts it:...
View Article6 Holocaust Sites
In May 2011, I went to Poland to visit a number of Holocaust sites — including the Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Krakow Ghetto — and this is the 1-hour video diary I made, complete with commentary: The...
View ArticleSession One
In October 2010, I made a film of two of my good friends — Precocious Mouse and Roberto Crippa — performing their first improvised experimental music collaboration. If you like analogue electronic...
View ArticleMy ‘Wuthering Heights’ Article — in Expanded Form — on ‘Fonts In Use’
Just in time for the U.S. theatrical release of the film, the crew at the inimitable Fonts In Use asked me to publish an expanded version of my blog on the typography in Wuthering Heights on their...
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