B(R)KLYN January 25, 2012
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Etcetera, FFFFOUND!, Ire, Spellcheck, The Ether.Tags: Bicycles, Brooklyn, FFFFOUND!, New York
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{ Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe via FFFFOUND! }
I just can’t stop wondering why Brooklyn (as in New York) is popularly (and officially) abbreviated to BKLYN.
À la:
{ Brooklyn Spoke }
If we’re getting rid of vowels (which is the NRMAL… I mean, NRML way) shouldn’t it be BRKLYN?
Ffffinding penguins January 23, 2012
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, books, Design, Etcetera, FFFFOUND!, Pretty!.Tags: books, FFFFOUND!, Penguin
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It’s been so long since I even looked at FFFFOUND!, let alone succumbed to the Gen-Y overshare impulse to repost everything that tickles my fancy.
{ The Pursuit Aesthetic, via FFFFOUND! }
Are some of those penguins Emperors, and others Adélies?
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Better than alphagetti*: edible gelatin typography January 19, 2012
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Pretty!, Typography, Words.Tags: alphagetti, American English, Food, gelatin, Typography
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{ via Colossal }
Current distraction: wondering about the mouthfeel. Chewy? Sticky? Sans-serifs-y? Alphagetti?*
(Subsequent distraction: the curious difference between American “jelly”, which is Australian “jam”, and Australian “jelly”, which is American “jello”.)
*If it’s named after what it clearly IS named after, shouldn’t there be an H after that G?
Unicorn ampersand (or, “I really do love you, Marc Johns”) June 1, 2011
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Blogging, Etcetera, Pretty!, Punctuation.Tags: Ampersand, Marc Johns, Unicorn
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Unicorn ampersand
(or, “I really do love you, Marc Johns”)
[From Everything wants to be a unicorn on Marc Johns's blog.]
Have I mentioned that I love Marc Johns? I’m pretty sure I have. Well, I also love that this is categorised as ‘serious drawings’.
Escape from Comic Sans: would you, if you could? January 31, 2011
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Etcetera, FFFFOUND!, Pretty!, The Ether, Typography.Tags: APOD, Comic Sans, FFFFOUND!, The Oatmeal, Women Laughing Alone with Salad
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{ Design Work Life via FFFFOUND! }*
IF ONLY.
Online publishing prefers sans serifs fonts for legibility and general easiness on the eyes. So if one, for some reason, determined (or was forced) to operate solely in the digital realm, the risk of encountering Comic Sans would always exist. That most aesthetically base typeface would always hover in the infinitely nearby ether, waiting to leap out and insult one’s intelligence and sense of sincerity.
If, however, one decided (or, in fairness, was forced) to remain solely in the world of tangible readables, maintaining daily contact with printed matter**, excluding all online readables, one MIGHT, in theory, achieve said escape.
Personally, I’d rather risk potential exposure to abominable web-friendly fonts than miss out on all the glory of the interwebs. Who in their right mind would intentionally shelter from that font of caustic, truthful wit The Oatmeal; NASA’s always-humbling Astronomy Picture of the Day; or, at the more frivolous end of the online gamut, Women Laughing Alone With Salad?
The enjoyment of these wonders might render impossible a guaranteed escape from Comic Sans, but it’s worth it.
* Also, how BRILLIANT is this faux-retro image‽
** (Proper printed matter like books and newspapers and magazines, not printouts of documents typed in Comic Sans.)
Because QWERTYUIOP isn’t a real word January 10, 2011
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Etcetera, Pretty!, Spellcheck, The Ether, Wisdom, Words.Tags: imgfav, nailing jelly to a wall, qwerty, tumblr, Typewriter, vague and nebulous
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{ Learn Something Every Day, via imgfav }
This is pretty fabulous. But I still think QWERTYUIOP should be a real word.
Unrelatedly*, I have returned to the tumblr fold, that I might post links to all the pretty things I find scattered throughout the ether. My tumblog is vague and nebulous**, in name and in purpose. Drop by if you wish to look upon naught but nice and/or pretty things.
*Also not a real word.
** “Vague and nebulous” is one of my favourite phrases, though I know not its origins. I frequently encountered it while reading law reports and parliamentary records at university, in reference to concepts so abstract that to define them would be like nailing jelly to a wall. Incidentally, “like nailing jelly to a wall” is another of my favourite law-school judicial phrases.
The book[ing] desk December 1, 2010
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, books, Design, FFFFOUND!, Pretty!.Tags: books, Bookshelf, Chromatic, Colour, FFFFOUND!, Information desk
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{ Information desk, via FFFFOUND!}
I’m not sure I’d trust information sourced from behind a desk made of books that clearly can’t be opened for information-sourcing purposes, but I would certainly trust the person who designed said desk.
It’s rather reminiscent of that favourite chromatically arranged bookshelf of mine:
{ from Periodic tables of everything, which is definitely a related post }
A bouquet of alphabetically sharpened pencils September 17, 2010
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Cinema, Design, FFFFOUND!, Pretty!, Typography, Words.Tags: Alphabet, FFFFOUND!, New York, New York City, pencils, Stationery, You've Got Mail
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{ by Dalton Ghetti, on Designers Go To Heaven, via FFFFOUND! }
“Don’t you just love New York in the Fall? Makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of alphabetically sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address…” — (a slightly altered) Tom Hanks as Joe Fox in You’ve Got Mail (which, I confess, I have seen at least 200 times).
I am going to New York in the Fall. Am very excited. Excited enough to buy a bouquet of pencils in celebration. If only I could get a set of 26 like this, it would certainly heighten the vacationary* stationery loveliness.
* No, not a real word.
General admits bullets don’t solve everything April 28, 2010
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Design, Etcetera, Laughing, Pretty!, The News, Words.Tags: bullets, bullets neologisms, Colours, irony, nytimes, PowerPoint
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“Some problems in the world
are not bullet-izable”– Brig.Gen. H. R. McMaster,
We Have Met The Enemy and He Is Powerpoint, nytimes.com
Does the General realise that his anti-PowerPoint quip is also a marvellously ironic anti-war slogan?
PS. No, “bullet-izable” is NOT a word.
PPS. The PowerPoint slide in question is actually rather pretty (if you ignore the content).
{ click for detail/zoom }
Even Nonomnivores Make Misteaks March 16, 2010
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Blogging, Design, FFFFOUND!, Spellcheck, Wisdom.Tags: FFFFOUND!, Mistakes, Monsieur Cabinet, Pescatarian, SwissMiss, Typo
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We learn from our mistakes. We learn from others’ mistakes. “The perosn (sic) who doesn’t make mistakes is unlikely to make anything”. If we didn’t make mistakes, I’d be out of a (new) job. AND I’d have nothing to quibble about. And nothing to scold myself over. For to err is human, and we are Errthlings after all.
{ by Monsieur Cabinet on Swiss Miss, via FFFFOUND! }
…but could you make mine an eggplant steak?
Or tuna if you must.
I don’t eat mammals.
