Category: creative contributions to society
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Konzo
A few important things: Phronk.com is a real web site now! All the URLs around here now start with “phronk.com” rather than “phronko.blogspot.com”, which never really made sense, and nobody took me seriously, and I cried about it a lot. NO MORE. However, this has caused a bunch of comments to be lost. I guess…
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Me in Maclean’s, + Wrinkly Nuts
Sooo there’s an article about me in Maclean’s Magazine (April 12th issue, page 62). It goes like so: Plain old coffee can be boring, so Mike “Phronk” [my last name] of London, Ont., likes to put “weird things” in his (he keeps a blog about it). [etc.] Conspicuously absent? The address of said blog. I…
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Fonts Don’t Matter
If you’re a graphic designer, a typographer, or an amateur font enthusiast, this might piss you off. That’s okay. Channel that anger towards flawless kerning. I’ve seen people vomit because the Papyrus font was used for subtitles in Avatar, or get a boner every time a poster is in Helvetica. These people, they know they’re…
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