Notes from the press at Blacks For Sale — short editorial pieces on paper, ink, and the single hue.
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On robots, intent, and the architecture of pages that are not for the index.
Some pages are not for the index. Notes on the robots directive as a statement of editorial intent rather than a privacy control, the back-room register of the checkout, and the 404 as the only page that exists to acknowledge an absence.
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A short manifesto against the hero-features-pricing reflex. Notes on the three-card stage direction, the word ‘features’ as a software-marketing tic, and the catalogue-and-manifesto page we keep writing instead.
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