Medium Cool
"It was three months before the August 1968 Chicago DNC. Wexler knew that if he took his camera into the chaos, he could capture lightning."
Analysis
Viewing a subject though a semiotic lens — in order to ascertain not only what it means, but how.
Die Gedanken Sind Frei
"There are always voices of resistance."
Zazous
"Êtes-vous swing?"
Once Upon a Honeymoon
"Suave antifa films that were also rollicking entertainment were, briefly, the state of the art."
Gotham
"It has a powerful presence yet it is approachable and even friendly."
Hermès vs. Hotdog
"In the most primitive part of our brains, we are all permitted to feel superior to anything written in Hotdog."
Wilkins’s Real Character
"Building each signifier out of a natural description of the thing it signifies."
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."
Shatter
"It attacked the Establishment’s preferred information typography style with a sharp edge."
Chinese Shipping Box
"For those of us who crave the off-version of your basic commercial reality, this is all just great."
Chicago
"The secret was in the spaces between the letters."
Scream Queen
"Flexible enough to evoke both Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth and The Exorcist."
Diploma Regular
"My tattoo indelibly links me to a nine-hundred-year-old scholastic tradition of writing and reading."
Electronic Display
"Getting early electro-mechanical systems to dynamically display changeable text was a pain in the ass."