WORK + STUDY, September 1945: “A two-sided graphic depiction of the farming program at Black Mountain College” [See inside.]
Hiroshi Yoshida: Kasuga sandô (Way to the Kasuga Shrine), 1938. Via John Resig’s ukiyo-e.org.
The photo that spawned a dumb tumblelog. But still my favorite Morrissey picture.
Close-up of typography by Phil Baines, via Eye magazine’s photo stream
Talking type with Phil Baines
I had the pleasure of meeting Phil Baines today for an 8 Faces interview. I’ve been a long time admirer of his work since I saw his beautiful, typographic paschal candles that appeared in Typography Now: the Next Wave in 1991.We met at the stunning Central Saint Martins building in the heart of London’s Kings Cross redevelopment area, and settled in to the typographic archive room for a chat. We went through some of Phil’s recent work and spoke about his experience and views on design and typography.
‘Carpe diem’ doesn’t mean seize the day – it means something gentler and more sensible. 'Carpe diem’ means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be 'cape diem,’ if my school Latin servies. No R. Very different piece of advice.What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day’s stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things – so that the day’s stalk or stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a thinness, and a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, perhaps leaking a little milky sap, and the flower, or the fruit, is released in your hand. Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant – pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don’t freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it. That’s not the kind of man that Horace was.
Place Lope de Vega à Valence, remploi d’élément gothique dans une arcade murée de l’église Ste Catherine. juin 2013.
L’Himalaya vu de Nagarkot, au-dessus de Katmandou, le matin. février 1988.