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NO SLEEP IN SAVANNAH

In design, gradschool, home, kat parr, spaces, travel on 8 March 2010 with no comments

There are times when your mind goes in wonderful directions; other times, less so.
I awoke in the wee hours of morning gripped by an awful sense of dread and the image of a dead deer flickering through my head like an old film reel. The deer I had actually seen earlier in the day on [...]

KNIFE FIGHTS

In design, kat parr on 28 January 2010 with no comments

What it says.

MATH FOR ENGLISH MAJORS

In art, design, kat parr, typography on 4 September 2009 with no comments

I learned two three things this week.
(1) If I am bored enough, I will painstakingly copy a complicated equation into Grapher for Mac, attempting to produce this:

But will instead get this:

That is to say, my equation will not work, because I am bad at complex math, and I will produce a graph of absolutely nothing. [...]

GOT A FONT

In art, books, design, kat parr on 31 July 2009 with no comments

I love fonts. And typography. And lettering. And design. And all that jazz. But I don’t know a whole lot about it, technically speaking. I did buy a book — Anatomy of a Typeface, by Alexander Lawson — but I haven’t had time to read it and actually internalize all the vocabulary and details on [...]