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Essay on Bruce Mau and “Life Style”
Posted on 05/10/2006 by fish • Permalink • Comment (1 so far)

I wrote an essay on Bruce Mau and “Life Style” last year, for my book on bullshit language in design discourse. Now that I’m finishing that project up, I thought I’d post it here and maybe get some feedback. Because, like, everyone has so much free time on their hands, with finals and all. Erm.

This is last year’s PDF. Just so all you graphic designers know, I’ve totally redone all the type/layout shit since then, and anyway this was from before I took type 2, so I was a little retarded. I’m just sayin. Yeah.

-fish

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