Meanwhile #077
Feuding brothers, thwarted lovers, and a lot of spoiled views.
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 contribution to this year’s Secret 7”: a sleeve for Manic Street Preacher’s No Surface All Feeling. Check out @Secret7s for lots more no-longer-secret contributions – some of which are still available on eBay. All proceeds support Mind, the mental health charity.
Swiss graphic design lab Emphase has designed Diglû, a set of 440 characters and 404 pictograms developed for the analysis and mediation of archaeological finds.
David Airey revisits a 1972 Graphis article on how Paul Rand presented logos to clients.
I knew shamefully little about Frida Kahlo until I read this excellent profileby Jessie Burton (to coincide with the V&A’s new exhibition). Now utterly obsessed. The opening paragraph alone is … yeesh.
Feuding brothers, thwarted lovers, and a lot of spoiled views – on the architectural pettiness of spite buildings.
I need me some Eric Carle tats.
Unit Editions on how Letraset became part of the DIY attitude to music of the 1970s and 80s. Also, their new book all about everyone’s favourite rubdown lettering system looks niiice.
Lubalin 100 – celebrating Herb Lubalin’s centenary with 100 posts – is now complete, and what a wonderful thing it is. Incredible project by the Herb Lubalin Study Center.
Thomas Hellum on the appeal of slow, long, boring television. I spent a large chunk of father’s day watching a seven hour train journey from Bergen to Oslo and I have too say it was strangely wonderful.
These recently discovered map concepts, designed by Massimo Vignelli for the Washington DC transit authority around 1973, are quite lovely.
Booktuber and binding nerd Holly Dunn on the history, technique and lovely-feeliness of deckled edges.
Cameras, boots, golf balls, wet wipes, feathers, bags of vomit, improvised javelins … and everything else we’ve left on the Moon.
That is all.