Imagine if Saul Bass had designed the Star Wars intro. Via Jason Kottke.

Call it the influence of MySpace or a reaction to the slick clean design status quo, but the Creative Review blog discusses what it is (possibly) calling “The New Ugly”. The most high profile example of this is, of course, the Olympics 2012 logo.

We’re sticklers for detail, but getting typography to work well on the web is not easy. Or, as Mark Boulton and Clearleft put it, typography sucks on the web - and they have a SXSW presentation online that goes into detail of how to improve it.