September 2008
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“What do you want for tea?/I want crisps.”
– Don’t expect too much from the new Kaiser Chiefs album… (Via the Quietus.)
Kenneth Branagh to direct Thor. How very odd. →
“Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re...”
– Paul Newman
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This week, I have mostly been:
making my side of the bed, when gently reminded
getting quite, quite excited about W. and Repo
discovering the true meaning of the words “dank”, “pokey” and “overpriced”
on a hen night
coming to the conclusion that the Genius function on my iPod is actually my brain, digitised and sent back from the future to save mankind through the medium of astonishing playlists
spending fifty pounds of...
“It’s been said that most graphic design monographs are adventures in narcissism...”
– Chip Kidd, Dreaming about designer monographs
Can one piece of luggage turn you into a cliché? →
793 Penguin Book covers →
“I have a physical aversion to shops like Magma, stocked to the gills with what...”
– Dreaming about designer monographs - the johnson banks thought for the week
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Awesome new theatrical trailer for Oliver Stone's... →
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Five crucial plot points to remember before... →
“A sans-serif face walks into the street and is hit by a Swiss Modernist truck....”
– Typographunnies
Typography for lawyers (or anyone else for that... →
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority. They...”
– Socrates, 5th Century BC
“Before 1454 (the year the printing press was introduced) witchcraft was...”
– David Crow, Left to Right/ the cultural shift from words to pictures
“Palin is a politician who sincerely believes that - no matter how bad her...”
– Steven Wells, “Palin puts America in the naughty corner”
1001 rules for my unborn son →
(via lumentree)
Polaroid kill off instant photography, and replace... →
Indiana Jones and the fonts on the maps →
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This week, I have mostly been
perfecting a strange sleep pattern
posing in my new coat
waiting for babies to arrive
tossing my Companion Cube about the place
viewing apartments (yeep!)
coming up with a genius idea
playing with my new iPod Nano
quizzing (one filmic victory, one musicular failure)
moving my design portfolio to another site… yes, I know, again.
“The first page of editorial is on page 76, and there is only one right-hand page...”
– Bloody hell. Andrew Losowsky’s review of the relaunched Interview magazine.
