I’m not a marginalia person.  I don’t do it myself, and I don’t like seeing it by other people in my books.  So when I buy used books I flip through them first to make sure they’re clean.  Sometimes I … Continue reading →

This is belated, but here’s a guy who’s turning his facial hair into his own font: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/feb/23/man-turned-beard-alphabet-alphabeard

So, in anticipating all the very interesting marginalia next week, I thought I’d share a site that I’m rather in love with. http://readingmarksonreading.tumblr.com/ If you’re not familiar with him, David Markson (died at 82 in summer of 2010) was a … Continue reading →

Speaking of writers using materials in compelling ways, it just occurred to me that the Shelley Jackson currently making headlines (“Story in the Snow“) for her gorgeous snow project short story is the same woman responsible for the skin project! I remember yearning … Continue reading →

Testing…    

So…. At this point, I’ve spend about 4-6 hours on this. But I don’t have a finished product. My original idea for this signment was to create a variation on a “Dr. Seuss” font. When I was in high school, … Continue reading →

Worth a read   http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole

Right now I don’t think I have the capacity to string together anything remotely intelligent, so I hope the font speaks for itself. It may look like this did not take me any time at all. But it did. Here … Continue reading →

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