So I have this assignment (which I’ve just completed) where we have to replicate with precision a double spread layout from a magazine. It took me hours just to find one that wasn’t using a commercial font (ie. Go and pay for it) in the end the one I used DID use something commercial, but [...]
Bigger than Helvetica
http://allsaidanddone.com/2008/03/12/bigger-than-helvetica/
Deeply flawed
After a lovely dinner at the Pig last night, Geoff and I went to see Definitely, Maybe. We came out of the movie laughing… I claim and still claim that it was attrocious (even though it was enjoyable) and Geoff is leaning towards, ‘enjoyable but deeply flawed’. On the way home Fred (the last remaining [...]
http://allsaidanddone.com/2008/03/08/deeply-flawed/
Discipline
On Sunday, we showed the youth the Nooma DVD – Noise. They coped remarkably well with a dominantly reading-the-screen type of movie. It is about silence. We managed 5-10 minutes of it afterwards. I don’t make a habit of silence, not a set habit anyway. I can sit at home for hours in front of [...]
http://allsaidanddone.com/2008/02/20/discipline/
Fantastic
Oh my gosh. I found this totally by accident. It’s like the best Roald Dhal book ever!!! (Except George’s Marvelous Medicine would come a close second). And Wes Anderson, Cate Blanchet, Bill Murray… this means that they won’t even destroy it, it’ll be freaking amazing. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. This is almost more exciting [...]
http://allsaidanddone.com/2008/01/30/fantastic/
Gold Stars
Due to her resplendent kindness (hehe) I’m going to share that my friend Jess has recently started blogging. This is not her first endeavor – the last you might remember was Exchange Me, which very well would have gone ahead except for the fact that she wound up not going on exchange and so couldn’t [...]
http://allsaidanddone.com/2008/01/29/gold-stars/





