We watched Helvetica yesterday, the documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of the typeface with a peek into the world of graphic design and specifically, type. It's a fascinating story, and I was amazed at how Helvetica is everywhere and, depending on how it's used, can be hip, pedestrian, ugly, elegant or assertive.The movie features the "rock stars" of graphic design from the last half-century, and one of my favorite moments is with designer Michael Bierut as he gives an example of how fresh and clean Modernist design must have seemed in the 50s and 60s as companies moved away from the traditional design of the previous decades.He imagines a 1950s meeting between a graphic designer and a company wanting to change its stationery:"'Here's your current stationery and all that it impli
Here comes the much awaiting post . GRE Analogies by GRE KRUPA SHANKAR.In these files many a number of relations between words have been covered . Also use the Special Words which are extensively...
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The Editors at The Times continue on about Iraq and contribute with fuel to the fire during the "War of the Analogies."According to them:"Blaming the prime minister of Iraq, rather than the president of the United States, for the spectacular failure of American policy, is cynical politics, pure and simple. It is neither fair nor helpful in figuring out how to end America’s biggest foreign policy fiasco since Vietnam."Their closing two cents:"If Mr. Bush, whose decision to inject Vietnam into the debate over Iraq was bizarre, took the time to study the real lessons of Vietnam, he would not be so eager to lead America still deeper into the 21st century quagmire he has created in Iraq. Following his path will not rectify the mistakes of Vietnam, it will simply repeat them."Bizarre" they call it..."inject Vietnam" have they no shame? Do they just forget what is necessary to pump their trash out?I'm pretty sure the board hasn't been too pleased with Maliki in the recent past...have the
As I struggle in the role of book doctor for a writer friend whose manuscript needs, shall we say, a little work, I am able to keep charging through, because at least I haven’t come across any of these! If you need a good laugh, go ahead and click.
Very odd to criticize a film for ‘raping’ a figure that sold cancer to millions: “Brokeback Mountain: Rape of the Marlboro Man” by David Kupelian. An amazing tour through the mind of a propagandist intent on selling America same-sex marriage through film.
The e-mail says they are taken from actual high school essays and collected by English teachers across the country for their own amusement. Some of these kids may have bright futures as humor writers. What do you think? 1. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up. 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances
