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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Complaining about typography

I’m reading Old Men in Love by Alasdair Gray: a Small Beer production touted (along with its more obvious literary qualities) for its design. And indeed it’s very lovely: two-colour (black/blue) with chapter decorations and the occasional sidenote in blue, frequent illustrations (by the author?), and each chapter ending with a gloriously antiquated tapering layout.1 [...]

Lessons from yoga

If you’re practising a headstand. If, while you are practising a headstand, your teacher gives you advice. Even if it’s advice you are in complete agreement with. Even if it is advice that sets off little lights of understanding blinking and flashing all over your mind. Even if you feel the utmost need to express [...]