Faëry Font Friday
Ok, so this is a total cheat. Today’s Font Friday is “font” as in “fountain”: in this case, a font created and guarded by faeries. I came across the poem when I was looking for font-related words that start with “f,” and I thought it was interesting.
Mysterious paper sculptures carved from books
From thisiscentralstation.com: Those of you who don’t keep up with Edinburgh’s literary world through Twitter may have missed the recent spate of mysterious paper sculptures appearing around the city. [Nicola’s note: This post is from 2011 but the story is still wonderful.] One day in March, staff at the Scottish Poetry Library came across a […]
A Second Life in a Second Language: A Change of Language for a Writer Is a Dangerous Thing
![Illustration: "Later that day, just when everything had [undecipherable text] into a giant ball of flames."](https://www.nicolaginzler.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/second-language-writers.jpg)
By Costica Bradatan from newyorktimes.com: In her exploration of the Catholic religion, “Letter to a Priest,” written the year before her death in 1943, Simone Weil noticed at some point that “for any man a change of religion is as dangerous a thing as a change of language is for a writer. It may turn […]
Fantastic post from designer Meng To: How Writing Makes You a Better Designer
Expressing your thoughts through design is great, but is it enough? Can you become a better designer by writing? Designer Meng To thinks yes. Writing Makes Me A Better Designer About a month ago, I decided to start a new discipline: write a short piece about design every day using Day One, which has a […]