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Category: Effortless

  • Karaoke on a school night

    That would make a good name for a cover band, if I were the type to make up names for bands I never intend to start.

  • Toasting every day is puffer than I thought


    From ffffound.

    Visually represented here are three of my favorite pastimes: playing on words and literary devices (spoonerism, in this case) typography, and talking about feelings.

  • Amp&rsAnd

    The ampersand is my favorite punctuation mark.


    From Sarah France.

    Technically, it’s a logogram, which is a written symbol that stands for a complete word or phrase. The ampersand represents the word and.


    From Swiss Miss.

    Its shape has evolved in different directions over time, but it was originally printed as a ligature of the letters in the Latin word for and: the capital E and the lowercase t.


    From Andrew Young.

    In a brief biography of their “middle name,” typography designers Hoefler & Frere-Jones write, “the ampersand is considerably older than many of the letters that we use today . . . one appears in Pompeiian graffiti, establishing the symbol at least as far back as A.D. 79.”


    From otherthings.

    I think what I like most is that the ampersand often resembles a capital letter E. As in Emily.

  • “Most things look better when you put them in a circle”

    I’m testing the theory put forth by Banksy in this trite and yet oft referenced drawing.

    Well, I guess it couldn’t look any worse.

  • When Henry Miller gives you an out, you take it.


    via Design Crush

    Henry Miller wrote a self-published novel called Into the Nightlife, which inspired Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry collection, A Coney Island of the Mind, which inspired the images of New York City nightlife in Cyndi Lauper’s new single, Into the Nightlife, coming out this month.

    Shot up like a satellite
    Into the night
    —    Into the Nightlife, Cyndi Lauper