Meanwhile #044
A flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.
This is an old edition of Meanwhile from an inferior, more simian newsletter platform that has unhelpfully severed all the hyperlinks. It’s included here in the archive simply for sake of completion.
Rod Serling's thoughts about science fiction and children's imagination make for a lovely animation. I adore that man's voice.
Every one unique – how Penguin blended coding and design to revisit Richard Dawkins’ classic texts. More of this sort of thing please.
Gather is a new social network for designers, developers, writers and other creatives who live and work near each other.
"I’ve always been taken aback by the assumption that my vision is fundamentally dystopian. I suspect that the people who say I’m dystopian must be living completely sheltered and fortunate lives." – fantastic Paris Review interview with William Gibson.
Sometimes I don't read the whole book – wonderful cover designer Oliver Munday on capturing fragments of a story, and the pleasures of the backlist.
An obsessively detailed map of American literature's greatest road trips.
"It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles." – Carl Sagan on books.
"The jackets become part of the story … it’s like a Möbius Strip." – Rhapsody interview cover design/pianist Peter Mendelsund.
Ten things I have learned, by Milton Glaser. Contains a good joke about a rabbit.