Today the blog at Encyclopaedia Britannica begins a handy series of postings sure to help literary fakers everywhere. "20th-Century Literary Genres in a Nutshell: Part 1" lists movements and key authors. So if you're not clear on Acmeism ("Russian poets who reacted against the mystical, vague, and allusive qualities of symbolism: Anna Akhmatova, Chetki (1914); … Continue reading Faking It
Fly on the Shelves
Design Observer has posted an article about Jack Stauffacher's storied Greenwood Press. My favorite bit, though is the slideshow of Stauffacher's shelves. I'm always reading the titles on bookshelves in the backgrounds of photographs, so I'm glad for a chance to be able to stare openly for a change.--David E
The 80s Weren’t So Good the First Time Around
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
