Urban Acrobatics

You’ve seen them bounding up walls and hurtling across rooftops in the latest action film, maybe even streaking across town. The ordinary rules of physics don’t seem to apply to them, as if their hands have suction cups and their feet are shod in Go-Go Gadget sneakers — but, in…

Rick Griffith’s Westword cover gets spoofed around town

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if that’s the case, everyone involved in coming up with the cover image for Westword’s recent feature on local type and design maestro Rick Griffith — and the list includes photographer Eric Magnussen, Westword Art Director Jay Vollmar and Griffith…

Boulder B-cycle: Google helps get new bike-sharing program rolling

With the success of Denver’s B-cycle program, it was only a matter of time until Boulder, our pedalicous neighbor to the north, would be clamoring, “Me too! Me too!” It turns out Boulderites won’t have to wait much longer: A recent Boulder City Council report noted Boulder B-cycle will be…

Taxicab regulations: Senator Ted Harvey introduces bill to deregulate industry

The November cover story “Mean Streets” revealed allegations of discrimination and abuse at Yellow Cab, the city’s oldest taxi company, and detailed how attempts to launch alternative companies have been stymied by Colorado’s restrictive taxi regulations. That may change, however, since Senator Ted Harvey just introduced legislation that would strip…

Rick Griffith’s “Definition of Graphic Design”: Can you dig it?

“Extra Bold,” this week’s cover story, details the creations of Denver type maestro Rick Griffith, including his “Definition of Graphic Design,” a 59-word sentence he spent eighteen months crafting that now appears on T-shirts, posters and scarves. Jeremy Peterson, art director at Griffith’s studio, MATTER, says it took him a…

Rick Griffith has designs on Denver. Bold ones.

The admonition greets visitors as they arrive for MATTER’s eleventh annual print sale and party. High on a wall of the design studio’s cavernous warehouse space on Market Street, the two-color screen-print poster warns in severely modified Helvetica Bold: “You may not steal the font library here, nor may you…

Medical marijuana to treat PTSD? Army personnel form MMJ advisory board.

In September, Colorado’s health department rejected the use of medical marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, a common affliction for veterans. But that doesn’t mean the military and MMJ have been divorced once and for all. Cannabis Science, a Colorado Springs marijuana pharmaceutical company, has formed a military advisory board…