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A weblog from the editors of Linebreak

The regulars

Ash Bowen's poetry has appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Blackbird, and Black Warrior Review, among other publications. He lives and works in Texarkana, AR.

Jennifer Jabaily's poetry has appeared in Mannequin Envy and Fickle Muses. She's a second-year MFA student at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

Ashley Anna McHugh is a third-year MFA student at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Measure, DIAGRAM and Memorious as well as other publications.

Johnathon Williams's poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2009, the Pebble Lake Review, and Unsplendid. He lives in Fayetteville, AR, with his wife and daughters.

Insert joke about Serifs and (Eames) Chair-ubim here? Or not?

By Jennifer on Nov 17, 2009

Design nerds unite!  These shoes, by United Nude, patterned on the Eames chair, sent me round the bend:

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There are different levels of design nerd.  To me, the name “Stefan Sagmeister” rings a few bells, and an Eames shoe is an appropriate dinner-table topic.  Others (and I suspect Johnathon is in this camp) have visceral, inexplicable reactions (of disgust) to (bad) design.  Something that’s off isn’t just ugly, it’s wrong.

If you fall into this category, proceed to this article on the New York Times on typography at your own risk.

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