by Mark Van Steenwyk 26 November 2007Recently, I watched a fascinating little documentary called Helvetica, which explores the ubiquitous nature of the font of the same name. It has been 50 years since the font made its debut. Since then, it has become the standard for brand logos, government documents, street signs, and word processing (Windows uses Arial–a cheap [...]
by Mark Van Steenwyk 20 November 2007 I know how it is: most people don’t read the poems posted on blogs. And poems don’t provoke conversation. You can’t skim a poem…you can’t easily extract meaning. You have to submit to a poem before she will share her secrets.
So, even though I recognize many (if not most) of you [...]