My mother-in-law phoned last night whilst I was watching the flash opera on BBC3. We were talking about the new embroidery course she’s just embarked on and her horror at discovering that she is required to design her own cross-stitch patterns as well as sew them. Self doubt is creeping in and she’s convinced herself …
No, I’m not talking about web site animations delivered through a particular type of browser, I’m talking about flash mobs meeting up with an opera performance. It’s on BBC3 right now, and repeated/reperformed at ten o’clock. It’s sufficiently odd for me not to have formed an opinion yet, but it’s making me smile so I …
And then came the web. And the mass amateurization of aesthetic skill. These days many programmers fancy themselves web designers and the terminology of typography is disappearing from what will one day be the primary medium of publication. Web designers in general don’t seem to spend a great deal of time on even typographical basics. …