blueprint...where are you going???

i just heard the news. martha stewart is discontinuing blueprint. i'm certainly not happy about this. i love that magazine and i was just getting ready to order a subscription for next year. not only does it contain wonderful things in its pages, but it's designed so well! the graphics are creative and wonderful! martha! why do you forsake me?!? ok, that was a smidge on the melodramatic side...but i'm disappointed none the less. i guess i'll just have to get my fill through bluelines...it doesn't feel as satisfying though. :(

ice, ice, and more ice

i don't remember if i've mentioned in previous posts, but in july i moved to the northeastern part of oklahoma from texas. we are fortunate to be living in one of the few neighborhoods in town that has power. at this point, there's not ice on the roads (with the exception of the bridges) but there's ice everywhere else. our house is brand new so there are no trees in our yard (there's a field behind us with trees), but many of our neighbor's trees have split right down the middle like a banana peel in their front yard. these broken limbs are doing damage not only to houses, but also to power lines.

i have a lot of family up here and some of them have power, some don't but we're all taking care of each other. my heart goes out to those with no power that don't have a place to go. keep warm and i hope your power comes back soon. in the mean time, here's some images of our frozen land:

oh massimo...

so we were watching some of the helvetica film in several of my design classes and denny (my design prof) was flipping through some of the extras. there was one with massimo vignelli and he was bitching about "flower children". it was so freakin hilarious! he was basically saying that back in the sixties and seventies, america had done everything right (up to the vietnam war of course) and that while he understood that hippies were reacting against the war, he basically felt they were everything that was wrong in the world. of course now, america does a lot of things wrong and he said he wished bush would just go back to texas. um, hello...we don't want him either. anyways, it was just funny how he was calling them flower children and bums "who just lay on the sidewalk".
erik spiekermann was funny too. he basically said he'd rather look at type than "girl's bottoms". he said he can't even read a magazine if he doesn't know what font it is. you know, i really love graphic design and typography but i don't think i'll ever be that obsessed with type. at least, i really hope i won't. i do love me some helvetica though. it's certainly not my favorite font, but it's in my top three favorite sans-serif fonts. anyways, it's fun to watch the type fanatics talk about helvetica. well, for me it is at least.

oh, by the way, yes...massimo vignelli is brilliant (and he knows it) but for the love of god, someone please tell me he needs to trim those furry creatures growing over his eyes! at least get those two big hairs in the middle.