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...staff writer Michele Orecklin, borrows ideas from literature and anthropology but animates them with materials provided by new technology. In that vein, Susan Casey, a TIME Inc. editor at large who designed our new sister publication eCompany Now, paid a visit to typeface designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, who take classical styles and put electricity into them to create the hieroglyphics of the cyber-era. Staff writer Joel Stein writes about industrial designer Ben Beck, whose back-to-basics approach brings a magical simplicity to everything from snowboards to bird feeders...
...probably haven't heard of Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones (unless you're an art director, in which case you've got their number on speed dial). But if you've picked up Rolling Stone, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, the New York Times Magazine or the hip new business magazine Fast Company, if you've strolled through the Guggenheim or Whitney museum, if you've dutifully filled out the 2000 Census form or watched ESPN, you've seen a sampling of the 500 original typefaces they've designed...
...less than 1% of the population who suffer from amusia, or true tone deafness. They literally cannot recognize a melody, let alone tell two of them apart, and they are incapable of repeating a song (although they think they are doing it correctly). Even simple, familiar tunes such as Frere Jacques and Happy Birthday are mystifying to amusics, but when the lyrics are spoken rather than sung, amusics are able to recognize the song immediately...
...first portion of the symphony, which starts out as quiet as death, grew louder then softer as the piece progressed, and never let its ominous undertones escape. Before too long, the familiar melody of "Frere Jacques" creeps into the orchestra, seducing one section at a time until every instrument had slowly succumbed. This movement is known to parody a funeral march, but what is being parodied--the funeral or the children's song--remains a morbid mystery...
Walk the island's one-mile circumference, and you'll notice a number of FOR MONKS ONLY signs. When I checked in for the first time, Brother Jean-Marie, the frere hotelier, observed that he seldom returned to "the other side," which is what he called Cannes and the material world beyond. On my arrival, we spent an hour discussing things like Aristotle, St. Augustine, the human condition and contemporary affairs before he reminded me of the house "rules." "Do not talk to monks, go into the monks' living quarters or chat with other guests inside the abbey grounds...