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Quotation marks are awesome. They let us talk about words like “hornswoggled” in a sentence without creating confusion. They let us directly quote people, like Jim, when he says cool stuff like, “my teeth are weirdly falling out sideways.” They clearly identify chapters from entire books, like “The Route to

It’s long been said that the devil is in the details. Is it also safe to say, at least visually, that masculinity is in the minutiae? A photographic series created by French-Canadian artist and photographer Ulric Collette provokes fascinating questions about the nuances in men and women’s faces that we interpret

Grammar mistakes on public signs can be tacky (at best) or downright embarrassing for you or your business. Spelling errors on your new company billboard or résumé may even cause you nightmares. In a visual world, there are general “rules” of design that ought to be followed as strictly as grammar

The two posters below technically communicate the same thing: promoting a car wash. However, the poster on the right has been improved dramatically with a few quick changes. Even when you don’t have a lot of money to spend, you can make an attractive design for a flier or poster

My Rating: 4/5 About the Book Eats, Shoots, & Leaves is a humorous (and sarcastic) book that explores how punctuation affects our day-to-day lives. Written almost as an inside joke to those self-appointed “grammar sticklers,” author Lynne Truss points to all her pet peeves about how people misuse punctuation, and how

1. Conan O’Brien: Correcting Jennifer Garner’s Verb Conjugation Jennifer Garner attacked him first, insulting his poor grammar despite his lofty education. Conan got her back by proving her wrong. Who is right?   2. Weird Al Yankovic: “Sticking It” to Grocers everywhere Is there a single grocery store out there

Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway is making a name for herself by colorizing famous photographs from our history. According to an article about her in Time Magazine, Dullawy digitally removes “spots, dust and scratches from archival…photographs, [then] digitally colorizes the files to produce realistic and modern versions of the portraits, which look

The English language is filled with wonderful compound and metaphorical words like “slaphappy” and “scatterbrained” to describe emotions. The right emotional term can visually describe just precisely how you are feeling. You’ve probably heard people use words like “birdbrained” when they feel like they did something dumb or “bamboozled” when

If you haven’t yet delved into the wonderful world of fonts, now is a great time! All computers these days come pre-loaded with several dozen typefaces, but sometimes that pre-packaged collection just isn’t enough. After all, just how much longer can you get away with using Papyrus as your go-to