Meanwhile #029
A roll of tape in a box, essentially an office supply.
NYPL – The New York Public Library have just made over 187,000 digital items in the public domain available for high resolution download. This in itself is pretty amazing, but what makes it even better is the visualisation tool, which allows you to browse the collection by colour. You could lose yourself in there for hours.
Wright on – Theo Inglis pays tribute to typographer, concrete poet, printer, painter, collagist, exhibition designer, historian, writer, teacher and New Scotland Yard sign-twirler, Edward Wright. I bet his LinkedIn profile was a mess.
At the Caslon Letter Foundry – Stunning set of photographs from 1902, revealing how type used to work. Just imagine the noise and smell of the place.
When designer housing goes wrong – How did innovative Winnipeg social housing, designed by one of Canada’s most talked about architecture firms, become a haven for drink and drugs?
NYT on our misplaced nostalgia for cassette tapes – “As a format for recorded sound, the cassette tape is a terrible piece of technology. It’s a roll of tape in a box. It’s essentially an office supply. … It’s true that the cassette tape is portable, affordable, disposable. But so are condoms made from lamb intestines.”
Do you like my tight sweater? – Creative Review talks to Róisín Murphy about two decades of pop, art and generally being the British Björk. She favourited one of my tweets. I will never stop telling people this.
Lego sets are a better investment than gold – Of course, gold is worth a lot more if you keep it in its original packaging.
That is all.