Straighten Out the Language It’s hard not to feel sympathy for Dr. Ludwig L. Zamenhof, the idealistic if misguided soul who created Esperanto. Dr. Zamenhof hoped to simplify the study and learning of language; to let users of Esperanto communicate with other...
Attacked By the Blob! Horror-movie buffs may recall The Blob as the 1958 film in which Steve McQueen had his first starring role on the big screen. (He had a smaller role in Never Love a Stranger the same year.) That particular version of The Blob might have been any...
To Have and To Fold We don’t know if you’ve ever witnessed The Great Escape. But it’s a fairly common occurrence in our business (creative services, that is): Here’s how it typically plays out: Client: I need a trifold. Designer:...
White Space Perhaps nothing is so vaunted, so cherished, so coveted, so misunderstood, so misused, and so thoroughly abused as white space. Conjointly, and in relation to the use of white space, perhaps no group is so celebrated, so mimicked, so misunderstood, so...
The Sound of Silos It’s a little-known fact (or a well-kept secret) that, many years ago, we worked in the grain industry. We were, in fact, grain farmers. And one of the people we worked with was Paul Simon. (Yes. That Paul Simon.) Back then, Uncle Clem had a...
Ghostwriters and Other Hobgoblins We recently went to visit a client who’d hired us to create cartoons for a speech he was scheduled to give. To accompany his speech, he wanted to use the cartoons, as slides, to illustrate a series of points he intended to make....
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