Three-Martini lunches, outrageous expense accounts and office affairs – Donald Morrison on life at Time magazine in the 1960s.
Where are the world's ants? The University of Hong Kong have launched a new project that maps the location/distribution of 15,000 types of ant across the globe. Fascinating stuff.
Austin Kleon on the writers, film-makers and comedians who all rely upon one obsessive, admirable stationery habit: index cards. All sounds very familiar: I used to be a carder myself; seeds of ideas and incoherent narrative fragments scattered across my walls.
In 1968, David Lynch made a disturbing short film about the alphabet because he's David Lynch and of course he did.
The Atlas of the United States Printed for Use of the Blind – an interesting experiment in accessible cartography from 1837. Rather than use the relatively new Braille, an angular, exaggerated typeface is embossed throughout.
I've just lost mine, so here's a timely reminder to anyone even remotely interested in the art of book design: you need a copy of Derek Birdsall's Notes on Book Design in your life.
How to turn your iPhone into a hologram projector.
Designs on film – depictions of designers on the big screen are so few and far between, the film that best reflects our profession may well be one about vermin …
I've written a thing about Dante's Inferno, The Thing and other chilly horrors for Tale, a new kickstarted journal about storytelling. Back it. Back it real good.
Great interview with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, in which he expresses mixed feelings about farming out his baby to other artists' visions. All mention of the films clearly through gritted teeth.
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