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Typography of the NYC Subway (from New York Times)»
Describes the cage-match between Standard Medium and Helvetica through the latter half of the century.
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This Heat: Health and Efficiency (via digitaldrift)
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If you like spy films, and don’t mind when they get pretty “groovy”, then check out the The Ipcress File. Part of a Len Deighton-based trilogy, with Funeral in Berlin and The Billion Dollar Brain. No wonder Michael Caine set all of the “birds” alight.
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Facial Hair and Presidential Elections»
It’s articles like this that stoke my beard fires once again. 1904 was a good year for the American Moustache (is that a Guess Who song?).
