Archie McLeish: Long Story Short Typography

I’m lov­ing Long Story Short, a project by Archie McLeish which typo­graph­i­cally ren­ders com­mon dig­i­tal speak acronyms in a decid­edly non-digital style.

 

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This entry was written by Courtney, posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:00 am, filed under Design and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. Franklin Campo
    Posted April 23, 2012 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    “PWNED” does NOT mean “Perfectly Owned”

    The “P” is a delib­er­ate typo used for ironic effect. On its deep­est level it is sort of a legacy insult towards script kid­dies, but if that sen­tence doesn’t make sense to you then suf­fice to say that it is a some­what self-effacing com­ment to say that you PWNED some­one. You are being self aware and ironic when you pwn.

    Maybe peo­ple don’t KNOW that any­more and so they aren’t being self-aware or ironic at all, but that’s where it comes from. You are SUPPOSED to be mim­ic­k­ing the retarded ass­holes on XBOX live or Battle​.net or wherever.

  2. Annie
    Posted April 24, 2012 at 4:35 am | Permalink

    Surely LOL is laugh out loud, no?

  3. Courtney
    Posted April 24, 2012 at 7:51 am | Permalink

    I thought so too, so I actu­ally looked it up before I posted it. Apparently some peo­ple inter­pret it at Lots of Laughs as well.

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