October 2006

On the Web

• Web Design Is 95% Typography: Hear, hear!
• When Animals Attack!: Just in time for Halloween, Posterwire unleashes a great collection of classic creature feature posters.
• Mark Gervais: Exemplary vector illustration with bold, rich colors, a polished line, and a keen design sense.
• The Origins of Letterforms: U&lc Magazine constructs hypotheses for the origins of the Roman alphabet“s letterforms, numerals, and punctuation.
• The David Zucker Albright Ad: An unused GOP propaganda video from… See more →

Almost a year ago, on the way home from an evening at a local bar, three of my friends and I were robbed at gunpoint as I was unlocking the front door of my apartment. It was over pretty quickly and the robber made off with a modest amount of cash. As freaked out as I was by the experience, I wouldn’t say that it necessarily caused me any lasting psychological trauma, beyond the fact… See more →

When I saw the gorgeously dreadful October 2006 edition of Stan’s site on Sunday, I remembered that I had intended to dust off my site’s costume from last year and put it back on. I dug around in my files, and was somewhat horrified to discover that the costume had vanished. Then I realized that if I was looking for that costume, summer must have ended. And boy oh boy, was there a lot of… See more →