Broader Crises

When it comes to politics, content is king. Our obsession (mine included) with the horse race of presidential politics leads us to obsess over the minutiae of campaigns, and in this endeavor graphic design is tasty chum. After all, in a world this batshit insane, analyzing inconsequential matters like font choice is an appealing distraction from darker topics like, say, the fact that our planet is dying.

The Gateway to the Consumer Earlier this year, some sixty slathering publishing would-bes jammed the upstairs of a brew pub in San Francisco’s SOMA district to hear the fifth in a series of “soirées” sponsored by the San Francisco writer’s guild. The soirée organizers looked warily at their dwindling stack of folding chairs—never before had one of these informal gatherings drawn more than ten or fifteen chronically unemployed writers.