April 2010 archives
Why would you not illustrate a jazz festival with a certain aesthetic? Why wouldn’t you use a conservative ‘American country club’ serif font in gilt, with mahogany highlights, to illustrate a jazz festival? I don’t mean an ironic aesthetic, but the real thing – uptight and frankly bad. Why wouldn’t you do this, and what [...]
As part of my intermittent and yet ongoing programme of peronal obtuseness, I have begun to wear a pocket watch, and leave all of my twelve wristwatches at home. There are many fine pocket watches available to the contemporary consumer, including an androgynous and unisex Skagen watch with a leather ‘chain’, but I wanted none [...]
