With jarring colors and a set of interesting evil robots, we brought visual impact to this alarming set of statistics and are helping Symplified get it shared around on the internet. Here’s hoping it makes some waves!
If you drive down 14th Ave every day (like Brittany does), you might have noticed a new building pop up and open this summer—the Denver Police Crime Laboratory, at 14th and Cherokee. Zigzagging along its façade are organic window elements inspired by DNA helixes, as seen in the photo above.
Romantic history aside, there are many advantages to restaurant owners and operators in going digital. ERJ Dining LLC, a 122-unit Chili’s Grill & Bar franchisee, has shaved an average of three minutes off its table-turn times, seen unspecified higher per-person check averages and experienced a significant increase in its loyalty club enrollment.
Well, suffice it to say that because I’m such a nerd (Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots and Leaves sends me into paroxysms of laughter anytime I crack it open) I was amazed to find several entirely new words for familiar typographical symbols in yet another favorite book, Robert Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style. I thought I’d share the best of them with you below, and offer some explanation as to how they came to be.
If you’re anything like me, on any given day the intricacies of punctuation can seem completely fasinating or utterly mind-numbing. On one hand it’s a fantastic system of marks that adds meaning and organizes thoughts, and on the other hand it’s just a series of dots and squiggles. As an Illustrator and Designer (but mostly schooled as an Illustrator) I want to think of punctuation as dots and squiggles, but I need to know the rules and intricacies.