Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

APRIL 23, 2010

When we designed the Knockout type family, which celebrates the exuberance of nineteenth century wood type, we wondered: what designer would knowingly use the fonts to recall a world of quack medical cures and traveling vaudevillians? The answer, as it so often turns out to be, is “smart aleck Canadian advertising agencies.” Behold the truly excellent Grip Limited , who have created a typographic tour-de-force in Knockout (and a little Archer ) that really repays scrolling in all dir

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Illustration Art

APRIL 8, 2010

Has every bad thing that can possibly be said about the art of Jeff Koons been said already? It is worth revisiting this question at regular intervals because you don't want to let an opportunity go by. You never know when someone might invent a new word for "stinks." There are many reasons for disliking Koons' work. My personal favorite is that he pilfers images from honest, underpaid commercial artists, sprinkles them with an invisible layer of irony and resells them as "fine" art for huge sum

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