December 2006

On the Web

• NRA’s Secret Graphic Novel Revealed!: Right-wing propaganda just got a serious face-lift.
• The Most Dangerous Roads in the World: Yowza! Just like the title says.

In the Stereo

• Crooked Fingers: Reservoir Songs
• Afghan Whigs: Going to Town
• The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
• Deerhoof: +81
• Dmitri Shostakovich: The Symphonies
• Scott Walker: The Drift
• The Knife: Silent Shout
• The Simpsons: Songs in the Key of Springfield

This could be a great book if it bothered to go into any actual detail or offer any really compelling arguments for or against abiding by typographic principles. Instead, it offers two equally under-developed halves. The first half gives us the ten “commandments,” several of which are typographically context-specific, and each of which has barely a sentence of explanation or justification for why it should be followed. The second half of the book supposedly describes… See more →