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David Platzker on the art of Ed Ruscha

THE DISTANCE from the Knox-Less service station in Oklahoma City to Bob’s Seaside Service, not so far from the Santa Monica Pier at the terminus of Route 66—both pictured in Ed Ruscha’s 1963 artist’s book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations—was about 1,400 miles. It’s a drive Ruscha has taken many times since he traveled it with Mason Williams in Ruscha’s lowered 1950 four-door Ford, with throaty Smitty Glasspack dual muffler, following their graduation from Oklahoma City’s Classen High School in 1956.1The trail from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles via Route 66 holds a mythic place withi...

A printing and advertising workshop opened in deaths out in one thousand nine hundred twenty five. the workshops head was how about buyer who designed the new type faces that would help define the bell house style he was a pioneer of what we now call corporate design. when among the capital of jordan decided it needed its own branding it hired graphic design a young gal who specializes in type faces. it was a pretty daunting task. the. first came to a modern two thousand four. as a young student and then i came back in two thousand and eight to develop a typeface for a month an arabic and lati...

who will fill the shoes and be the product visionary. steve jobs could understand what consumers want before they wanted all these products. who will step in and be able to sort of create the next iphone or the next ipad? that's the own question here. i don't think anybody can answer that, kyra. >> i think a lot of people are asking that question. i understand there are some special services for employees today. >> we don't know when they're going to occur, what we know is that when steve jobs died ceo tim cook put out a statement and said at some point there will be a celebration of...

have a significant effect for our economy and for middle class families all across america. what these independent experts have also said is that if we don't act, the opposite will be true. there will be fewer jobs, weaker growth. so as we look towards next week, any senator out there who is thinking about voting against this jobs bill when it comes up for a vote needs to sdmran exactly why they would oppose something that we know would improve our economic situation at surnl such an urgent time for our families and for our businesses. now, congressional republicans say one of the mo...