Word: freres
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...Most roads remain unpaved. In Mthatha, 74% of the population earns less than $150 a month and 43% are unemployed, according to a June 2008 report by the South African Medical Journal. In 2007, East London's Daily Dispatch newspaper revealed that poor maternity care at the city's Frere Hospital was resulting in around 200 stillborn babies every year - and that the corpses were being buried in mass paupers' graves. A tour of Mthatha General Hospital suggests conditions as grim: paint peels from rotten ceilings, the floors are filthy and in the casualty department, an old woman lies slumped...
It’s somewhat worrying when your musical heroes talk about packing their bags during their own zeitgeist. In the New York Times earlier this month, Sasha Frere-Jones quoted Timbaland: “I’m tired of stuff now, even stuff that I do. Coldplay and Radiohead are the illest groups to me. That’s music. Norah Jones is music. I love real music that I can play and never get tired of. The stuff I don’t get tired of is the stuff that’s musical...
...FRERE JACK...
...very few straight lines--is always exquisitely legible without sacrificing high style, somehow managing to synthesize classical elements with the churning pop culture. "Typefaces have a viral quality," says Hoefler. "It's always amazing to see where they wind up and how they transform the things they inhabit." Adds Frere-Jones: "When you're designing a typeface, you're not really making a product. You're building a machine that will go and make other products...
...modern as its approach is, the firm's aesthetic is rooted in the past. "A conversation with Hoefler and Frere-Jones is an instant education, not only in letter design but also in history, fine art, literature and music," says Michael Bierut, a partner at the global design agency Pentagram and a frequent client. Such context is important. Whether it is Sumerian hieroglyphs on clay tablets or cybertext on the Internet, the written word is made up of assembled shapes, and the tiniest details--the contour of a serif, the slope of a curve--can evoke mood and emotion...