Tom Vanderbilt
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Tom Vanderbilt|Essays
A Pictograph Is Worth a Thousand Words?
I braved the midway point of one of Seoul's ever-snarled streets yesterday to take this photo, whose scene I found compelling for the strange concentration of varying visual information. Seoul is in intensely graphic city, its commercial …
Tom Vanderbilt|Essays
Rise and Fall of Rock and Roll Graphic Design
Browsing recently through a collection of "band fonts," my memory drifted back to Middle School where I, plastic Bic in hand, would spend countless hours carefully inscribing the covers of my Mead notebooks with the logos and signature …
Tom Vanderbilt|Essays
A Review of a Show You Cannot See
Stuck the other day at John F. Kennedy airport in New York, with inescapable CNN thoughtscreens blaring, cell-phone dialogues traversing my own personal airspace, and every decent magazine already read, I longed for a moment of quiet …
Tom Vanderbilt|Essays
Pleasures and Pathos of Industrial Ruins
A few months ago, I met with a contractor to discuss building a small bridge at my Catskills property in upstate New York. When I blanched at the price, he noted that steel, at the moment, was quite expensive. "It's all going to China," he …
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