Persons attempting to find a "text" in this [story] will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in it will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise "understand" it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR - Wendell Berry's introduction to Jayber Crow.
This article was posted to Jayber on 25 February 2008 by to the following categories: Residuals.
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I've waffled for a few days on whether to post this or not, but the font that Obama's campaign uses for their "Change We Can Believe In" marketing material, uses Gotham, which was originally designed for GQ by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, inspired by a sign for the NY Port Authority.
H&FJ say of Gotham's original aesthetic intent:
GQ had a dual agenda of wanting something that would look very fresh, yet very established, to have a credible voice to it. It also needed to look very masculine and 'of-the-moment.'
Seems to go well with Obama's message. Perhaps we should add Typography to the list of our country's important political issues.