Life &Literature Entropy | 30 May 2011
In the words of Eduardo Malleaan an Argentine essayist and writer “Each man’s destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen resemble what is already in his memory” This post is for my friend Nimesh, a restless incorrigible traveler.. I am sending you postcards from a place where I am not. We’re not tourists, [...]
Art & Design Entropy | 27 May 2011
I use letters like a photographer does a camera: I use them to illustrate emotions.- René Knip 158 Answers published by Typotheque presents eleven interviews with renowned type designers and writers [including Ken Barber, John Downer, Jan MIddendorp, Alejandro Paul, among others], interviewed by students of Type Media postgraduate course in type design. Via- Typotheque
Thought Provoking Entropy | 18 May 2011
The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? – E. O. Wilson In the words of David Brooks NYT columnist and author – We have [...]
Zbigniew Herbert – (1924-1998 ) was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. The important, and known for his poetry, which from his very debut had a distinctive, recognizable tone , which feature in an era of unbridled and extravagant individualisms: the most important thing shaping the poet’s style was [...]
Art & Design Entropy | 06 May 2011
Elegant, quirky, fluid, brutish, ostentatious— a visual resource of cursives and other typefaces that resemble handwriting. Introducing Steven Heller and Louise Fili’s latest collaboration, Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age. This book includes over three hundred examples of elegant and eccentric scripts from pre-Modern to Modern—from France, Italy, Germany, and England as well as [...]