Cheers!

Outside of an office park somewhere outside London, there is this:

Depending on your worldview it is either an uplifting goal, or a demoralizing co-opt of an idea that is, in itself, an oxymoron. You decide.

P.S. I'm pretty sure they've used Bell Centennial, designed by Matthew Carter for use in the phone book. A lot more people are using that lately. The tipoff is those little cutouts where the Ns diagonal stroke joins the stems.

And P.P.S. I'm told by a British friend that Chiswick is pronounced "chissick", with a silent W. I was also told that Chiswick is very "swish".

Communication

Hitting a wall. Firewall. Brick Wall. The visual metaphor for getting nowhere bizarrely appeared in the office soon after I spent a day sans internet and on the phone with the other service provider. Coincidence?