The Seventh-day Adventist denomination revealed its latest visual identity standards today at the General Conference’s spring meetings in Maryland. I’m impressed. The core font family, Advent Sans, is open source, based on Google font typography, and designed for more languages than those that use the characters A-Z. The twenty-year-old Bible-cross-flame symbol is unchanged and set on a […]
Control and courage
On my way out of the office last Friday, I saw a single white wildflower growing out of a crack in the parking lot. It was nestled right in the corner between the level that the cars drive on and the sidewalk that people walk on. It was about eight inches tall with Irish green leaves, […]
The Components of Privacy—Defining the Beast
Today I bought Janna Malamud Smith’s Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life (2003) and will be sharing content and reflections on it going forward. The following quotes come from pages 27-41; in that section, Malamud Smith builds on Alan Westin’s 1967 definition of privacy as four-faced and composed of solitude, anonymity, reserve, and intimacy. I’ve bolded […]
