Damn that’s a fine magazine cover.
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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.
Under Ware poster, via eins-ah.
“In 1631 Robert Baker, the King’s Printer, produced a Bible with the little word ‘not’ missing from the seventh commandment, thus instructing worshipers: ‘Thou shalt commit adultery.’ Known as the Wicked Bible, the Archbishop of Canterbury ordered the book be burnt and Baker was sent to prison where he stayed until his death. Which all goes to show, type most certainly matters.”
Type, who host some damn fine-looking typographic walking tours.
S-131 passive comms satellite, 1965. From the NASA image archive, via vibegota.
