May 2005

Letters

  • May 25, 2005 at 8:07 am
  • Categories: Design

  • I went to to what was probably an interesting lecture last night. Some chap, a typographer, had become fascinated with inscriptions on Welsh stones dating to about 400AD. So he’d wandered around Wales taking ‘squeezes’ (a sort of advanced form of rubbing) from these various stones. I tried not to fall asleep. The long words, [...]

Lettuce

  • May 23, 2005 at 4:30 pm
  • Categories: Rant!

  • I’ve just spent five minutes fighting my way into an iceberg lettuce. The plastic straitjackets within which UK supermarkets imprison these unfortunate vegetables appear, at first glance, to be mathematically impossible. And at second glance. In fact, for all my years of liberating lettuces, I have yet to understand how to open the damn packaging. [...]