Meanwhile #076
But the real culprit was a teacher with an old map.
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 completeness.
My new favourite word: dinkus. What’s a dinkus? Oh you know what a dinkus is. You just don’t know that the thing that you know is called a dinkus. Anyway, here’s Daisy Alioto’s ode to dinki.
Somehow the universe is still without a hefty Farrow monograph. While I wait impatiently for it to appear, I’m making doing with their instagram account, drip-feeding fantastic work from their archive – loads of Pet Shop Boys and Kylie and Spiritualized bits and pieces.
Go Poland! etc. – Nick Asbury reviews the underwhelming and curiously numeric fan-written slogans of the World Cup.
Adobe and Erik Spiekermann are reviving a batch of long-lost Bauhaus typefaces – one of which looks like somebody dropped Josef Albers’ Stencil Lettering System and couldn’t remember where all the bits went.
Alexandra Lange on the future of school design – from her new book The Design of Childhood, which looks smashing.
Hoxton Street Monster Supplier and all round nice chap Alistair Hall answers some questions about playfulness, design and and frisbees.
Matthew Clark celebrates the production design and in-film branding of Jurassic Park. With all the twenty-fifth anniversary stuff out there, I’m amazed they haven’t published an “Art of” book, or at the very least reprinted the excellent The Making of Jurassic Park.
Monks at Mont Sainte-Odile believed they were being robbed by a poltergeist – but the real culprit was a teacher with an old map. Geoff Manaugh on burglary and architectural puzzles.
Six books we could and should all write – which basically amounts to: diaries and lists are fun, write diaries and lists, never stop writing diaries and lists. Hard to argue with that.
David Byrne’s Reasons To Be Cheerful website is full of nothing but good news from all over the world. More of this please, internet.
Dutch artists Bruno van den Elshout’s book New Horizons is nothing but 300 photographs of the North Sea and is quite, quite beautiful. Come for the view, stay for the stunning custom lay-flat binding (seriously, watch the video – it’s lovely).
That is all.