Megan Power

Bonding by Mariel Franklin

"Independence was expensive—or to put it another way, freedom only came at a cost."

J.G. Ballard's Death of Affect

British novelist J.G. Ballard wrote the postmodernist classic Crash and coined the phrase "Death of Affect". 'Affect' i...
Highway Gothic and Other Iconic Typefaces

The font most commonly used on road signs and highways in Canada and the U.S. is FHWA Series E Modified . This is a sans-serif font infor...
Labov's 6 Basic Elements of Storytelling

Classifying and delineating story patterns is a vast field of study, but one of the most influential theories was written in 1972 by socioli...
Birkhoff's Formula for Aesthetic Measure

Paul Octavious' s 51 books on love Mathematician George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) had a keen interest in aesthetics - ...
Barbara Kruger & Futura Bold Oblique

American collage artist Barbara Kruger is internationally famous for superimposing messages in Futura Bold Oblique font on pre-existing ph...