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 false Charlie Trotter 2006-10-25T17:48:00-04:00 2006-10-26T16:53:35Z 2006-10-25T21:49:14Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33136608.post-116181295404455571 B-A-N-A-N-A-S The other day, while moving the fruit bowl aside on my way to the dish of Almond M&Ms, my eye got hung up on the slight difference between the two blue stickers on the bunch of bananas. One was the Chiquita logo, one was a little message to me. At first I thought it was yet another manifestation of the Relevancy Shuffle, invented that one time people started to tune out traditional media. A false Charlie Trotter 2006-10-11T10:55:00-04:00 2006-10-11T15:18:45Z 2006-10-11T15:18:45Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33136608.post-116057992517550776 Land Developers, Broadband Providers and the Puny Concerns of the Everyman I just got my internet set up yesterday and found out that, instead of being DSL, it would be dial-up, because no one had run any broadband abilities into this community yet because it was too new. So, until broadband adoption climbs from it's apparently too low percentage of 42% of middle-income Americans, it will not have proved its marketability/market penetration to the providers enough for false Charlie Trotter 2006-10-06T19:19:00-04:00 2006-10-06T23:43:40Z 2006-10-06T23:40:04Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33136608.post-116017800477693276 Blueprint If you care at all about setting your peepers on tight, beautiful typography, you will love, LOVE reading Blueprint. It's Martha Stewart's new magazine and it's impeccably designed. The typography is as bang-on as it can be and it's chock full of great ideas for designing your living and work space. I'm a big believer in designers being designers in every aspect of their lives. We all do it false Charlie Trotter 2006-09-21T13:42:26-04:00 2006-09-21T17:48:26Z 2006-09-21T17:48:26Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33136608.post-115886090610427832 A Typographic Grudge IMG_2222.JPG Originally uploaded by typeiswhereitsat. Well, I just recently moved my office and family out to Fort Worth (Fowert Wuth to the natives). My brother-in-law flew down to Tampa to help me with the drive back and we decided to take in some sights along the way.We stopped in Mobile, Alabama to see the USS Alabama. I highly recommend your stopping there if you are passing through. false Charlie Trotter 2006-09-05T18:21:00-04:00 2006-09-05T22:37:38Z 2006-09-05T22:23:07Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33136608.post-115749498789928362 Better Type-Setting Through Clean Living After reading this excerpt from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, you may, like me, be newly-curious to have a look at books printed in London in the early 1700s to see if they look like they were type-set while drunk. "At my first admission into the printing-house I took to working at press, imagining I felt a want of bodily exercise I had been used to in America, where press-work is false Charlie Trotter 2006-08-29T21:19:00-04:00 2006-08-30T03:07:20Z 2006-08-30T03:05:34Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33136608.post-115690713491149128 Michael, the 80s hate you back. The other day during one of our weekly coffee sessions, my buddy and I were venting about poorly treated 80s kitch. The latest offense being the still-in-production Transformers live-action movie. From the production photos on the intertron, it looks bleek and unfaithful. So, as our angst grew, we imagined what it would be like if our youth culture avenged itself in semi-tarantino-style. This is false Charlie Trotter 2006-08-23T16:41:00-04:00 2006-08-23T20:50:51Z 2006-08-23T20:50:51Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33136608.post-115636625152963021 Form and Function The other day, while I was surfing one of the design forums I frequent, some one posted a link to an article called The Surprising Truth about Ugly Websites. If you like feeling industrially undermined and marginalized, read it. If you are trying to justify having not so much as Googled the word "design" before uploading your electronic dry-heave of a website, read it. But don't read what's false