Biblonia

Biblonia

More is not always more

biblonia
Nov 23, 2019
∙ Paid

You've heard this before: 'less is more'. It applies to design, fashion and technology.

Sometimes more is not more.

We're surrounded by typography and script. Printed words on bags, on billboards everywhere we go, ads of all sizes following us around like Pullman dæmons. That doesn't make us more literate.

More text doesn't make us more textually-minded. I…

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