Meanwhile #017
The claw chooses who will go and who will stay.
TeddyBär – the mysterious early-twentieth century German fad for posing with a polar bear imitator.
Well this is lovely: 1948 showcase from the Book Jacket Designers Guild. Entirely free of “conspicuous top-heavy ladies draped in undress”.
Interview with William Grill, author/illustrator of Shackleton’s Journey – fantastic new picture book about Ernest Shackleton’s attempt to cross Antarctica in 1915.
Coudal Partners have every Stanley Kubrick link you will ever need. And then some.
Explore Eero Saarinen's magnificent TWA Flight Center – a pristine architectural time capsule from 1962 – before it gets butchered into a crass boutique hotel.
The war between man and claw machine rages on. So many have suffered. These tips may finally give us the upper hand.
Can a font make us believe something is true? Michael Bierut and Errol Morris think so.
Yes, androids do dream of electric sheep – Google set up a feedback loop in their image recognition neural network and the results are very, very odd. Everything about this hurts my mind.
Edward Gorey's illustrations for HG Wells' The War of the Worlds.
Mass and density, repetition and rhythm, scale and texture – developing design skills with Lego Architecture Studio.
That is all.