Moharram Black
"The mourning of Moharram allows people to superimpose and put into perspective their own grief."
Design
Making visible the "aesthetic envelope" that expresses and shapes feeling, belief, and moral conviction.
Hermès vs. Hotdog
"In the most primitive part of our brains, we are all permitted to feel superior to anything written in Hotdog."
Barbie Pink
"It is important that emancipated women feel free to wear pink if they wish."
Wilkins’s Real Character
"Building each signifier out of a natural description of the thing it signifies."
Pier Blue
"A stable bridge across a sea of change and a million colours."
Comic Sans
"Comic Sans joins the ranks of Nickelback and Hot Pockets as a thing you’re only allowed to like in a so-bad-it’s-good way."
PMDD Red
"Those of us with PMDD sometimes describe the days leading up to our period as the 'Red Zone' or 'Red Mist.'”
Shatter
"It attacked the Establishment’s preferred information typography style with a sharp edge."
Jacaranda Purple
"The color suggests a form of joyful spirituality: grounded, immediate, and lived rather than contemplative."
Chinese Shipping Box
"For those of us who crave the off-version of your basic commercial reality, this is all just great."
Eastern Bloc Grey
"Being between two apartment buildings you could be anywhere: in a random Bucharest neighborhood, a small, but heavily industrialized Russian town, in Bulgaria, Ukraine or Slovakia."
Chicago
"The secret was in the spaces between the letters."
Amaltas Yellow
"An Amaltas’s brightness is an accent that lifts the scene up."
Scream Queen
"Flexible enough to evoke both Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth and The Exorcist."