So you may have gathered from previous posts that we’re doing some pretty exciting stuff in collaboration with the City of Boston and Mayor Thomas Menino in coming up with a strategy to revitalize their downtown, which has been known for generations as Downtown Crossing. A little less than two years ago, we teamed up [...]
Type design is like one of those alleyways between Brandywine and Green that you can hop over with a quick pace and and lofty launch. While sometimes smelling like Saturday night’s trash, most reveal a subtle beauty so intrinsic to the city’s allure. Ever wonder whether the handwriting of your favorite type designers encodes some [...]
—————————– John Grider/Broken Crow Imagine you’re walking through an abandoned parking lot at 10:30 at night. Rusting, twisted shopping carts and dead lamps surround you, part of the landscape, archaelogical. The terrain is muted. Buffmarks, dull-dusty concrete, cracked tar, peeling paint falling off the wall in cloud-colored flakes. And in the center of this scene, [...]
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To compliment Adam’s Ping Pong Showcase, I thought I would start a new column called Philly Showcase, highlighting some of our more outstanding members of “The City Of Brotherly Love”. Meet “Jo On Rails – 48(Philly)”. He enjoys HO Scale trains, stomping around and kicking them like a monster, immitation crab meat, and Men age [...]
Andrzej Grubba (R.I.P.) From Wikipedia: “Grubba was born in Brzeźno Wielkie near Starogard Gdański. He was the recipient of numerous medals for the world competition in table tennis as well as for the European competition. He was one of the best players in this field of sport in Polish history, together with Alojzy Ehrlich. Three [...]