No one was more gifted at a kind of porous, graceful, magnificent, experimental understanding of that line between the numerical and the visual, and the lived experience of what geometry could be.The also explore the phenomenon of corporate humor, from the Google Mic Drop fiasco to the mock branding agency Bland.ly, which Michael calls
a parody so vicious in a way it actually will put everyone on notice… There may be at this moment a bunch of firms going through their websites and carefully extracting the turns of phrase that now have been rendered toxic by the precision of this parody.
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