Binky the doormat
An ongoing collection of inspirational design, wisdom and ephemeral loveliness found by Daniel Gray.
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Curated Chelsea Home, at Loft Life.
See George? See how much better it looks with real locations? DO YOU SEE? Star Wars on Earth, via @mightandwonder.
Damn that’s a fine magazine cover.
Esquire’s London Fashion Week zine.
Nikola Tesla’s letterhead. Preposterous accent not shown.
“Having an end makes things better. Movies end. Symphonies have a final note. Shows have finales. Books end on a period (or sometimes a question mark). Websites do not. The constant stream of content is the beauty and the shame of them. To “finish” a website typically means to abandon it. We thought there had to be another option.”
Frank Chimero on the design rationale behind Thinking for a Living.
I don’t know if I’d ever use it, but by golly I want this white Olivetti Valentine S typewriter from City Furniture (via Handmade Charlotte).
A. F. (Korky) Kaulakis, inventor of the bullet point. Seriously.
“We took our website and turned it sideways. Why? Well, the site is for reading on screen, and I don’t know about you, but our screens are wider than they are tall. Putting text in columns makes it easier to read by providing a proper line length too.”
Well that makes sense. Thinking for a Living: my new favourite website.
Yes, I think I may have to go to this.
