I've just been dying for an excuse to blog about the logo for the 2012 London Olympics, and at last I have it: designer and critic Michael Beirut was on WNYC talking about the logo, product packaging, and fonts, and his book Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design. So I can with a clear conscience tell … Continue reading The 80s Weren’t So Good the First Time Around
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Embarassment of Riches
I can't resist a headline like the one I saw today: "Blind author to hold 'clothing optional' book signing."It seems a bookstore in Vermont is holding an after-hours reading by the author of Nudity & Christianity by Jim Cunningham, lifelong promoter of both causes through his "Theology of the Body Retreats." He calls his latest … Continue reading Embarassment of Riches
My Hero
Edna Foulds, of the town of Redcar in the north of England, is my new hero. Over the last 40 years, she's borrowed an estimated 20,800 books and only once been late returning them! I wish I could do as well.Read the full article here.--David E