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The 2014 Olympic Games are going to be a (visual) disaster
Let’s get two things straight: I love the Winter Olympics, and I love Russia. But I also love good design, and Sochi.ru is already shooting itself in the face in that department with sophomoric typography, an out-of-touch grab at being “digital,” and now these cutesy-wutesy pictograms. Are these Cartoon Network characters supposed to represent the…
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Wild American
For the love of a genre — inspired by/in response to this article about Beasts of the Southern Wild. I’m a big fan of magical realism, and more specifically the genre referred to in the article as “American Exotic,” but which I’m choosing to call “Wild American.”