Meanwhile #079
Abandoned military checkpoints and beautiful margins.
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.
Somehow it’s autumn. Not one to let a season pass without an unnecessary and time-consuming redesign of my website, I’ve rejiggered everything at danielgray.com. Again. I’ve added a load of covers – including new ones for Head of Zeus and Penned in the Margins – and tidied up the blog with lots of old Creative Review and MacUser columns. And the cherry on top: an about page portrait by wonderful illustrator James Weston Lewis. Now I just have to step away from it and resist the urge to redesign it all over again. At least until Winter.
Marginalia. Craig Mod on the importance of margins in book design. Includes the line “never be fooled by a fancy cover … covers are just there to protect pages with beautiful margins”, which you should of course disregard entirely.
One room with a view. Smashing independent film site. Aa great mix of news, reviews, analysis, nostalgia. I particularly like the best films never made posts. Well worth signing up for their weekly newsletter.
Pensom. Loving Paul Pensom’s new Creative Review series on setting up your own design studio. Only a few posts in, but I’m thinking this will eventually make a great book.
Small joys. Inspired by Moose Allain, the nice man who lives in my computer, I’m compiling an ongoing list of small joys (e.g. looking up at the sound of a passing jet, only to see a tiny bird flying past). Making twitter an ever so slightly happier place, one smile at a time.
The Design Museum. They’ve just announced Stanley Kubrick and Mars exhibitions for 2019, which both look fab (although I’m not so sure about the opportunity to “relive scenes from Eyes Wide Shut” … do you have to bring your own mask?). In the meantime, check out the designs of the year show, which runs until January.
Full table. In which I explore one of the strangest, most Aladdins-caviest websites out there. Be warned, this one hyperlink will completely take over the rest of your day and scupper all plans for productivity.
Übergang. Abandoned military checkpoints from across Europe, shot by Josef Shulz. I’d gladly convert any of these into an incredibly beautiful if somewhat impractically-commutable studio of my own.
That is all.