Observed | March 29
Over on
Curbed one writer dives into the belly of the assembly-required beast:
How 12 hours in the biggest Ikea in the U.S. destroyed my soul. [BV]
How America‘s
obsession with hula girls almost wrecked Hawai‘i. [BV]
What author uses the most exclamation points? Or,
literature by the numbers. [MB]
Trying to save you from yourself a
Dutch town installs traffic lights on the ground for texting pedestrians. “They were looking down there anyway.” [BV]
Observed | March 28
Hungarian government
could ban Heineken‘s red star logo over communism concerns. [MPL]
Annals of material culture: the Bodlean Library at Oxford mounts an exhibit of ledgers revealing what famous people once paid for shoes. [JH]
New one-pound coin in Britain
is designed by a 17-year-old! [JH]
Design as tourism :
Sweden edition. [JH]
Observed | March 27
The smartphone with
a mission to be used less often. [MPL]
Mike Monteiro:
Ethics can‘t be a side hustle. (Thanks to Ashleigh Axios.) [MB]
Target is redesigning to take on Amazon. [MPL]
Observed | March 24
A history of the zipper. [MPL]
Designer vs Developer: Google‘s YouTube and podcast series aims to
help bridge understanding. [MPL]
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
on the early days of design at Apple. [JH]
Observed | March 23
Norway has redesigned its banknotes:
here’s a preview. (Via Kevin Hicks.) [JH]
Gurafiku founder Ryan Hageman on
Japanese graphic design. [MPL]
How a photo of a tour van became a “lovely graphic tool”
in the hands of Harry Pearce. [JH]
The US Supreme Court
rules that design elements can be copyrighted ... if you’re a cheerleader, that is. [JH]
Observed | March 22
10 notebooks for designers. (And they‘re not all Moleskines.) [MPL]
All of Frida Kahlo‘s anguish, beauty, and pain in, what else,
160 FridaMoji. [BV]
A collection of
East German beer and drink labels. [MB]
"The standards of good design don’t change when designing for doing good.”
Why the Resistance doesn’t need another logo. [MB]
“So now is a good moment to think about
how protest works and what it can achieve.”
An exhibition on the visual history of protest opens tomorrow at the Imperial War Museum in London. [JH]
Observed | March 21
Why Christopher Gray was
the witty architectural historian everybody loved. [BV]
The Resistance has a
logo. [MB]
Chicago gang
business cards from the 70s and 80s. [MB]
Roman Mars ranks government logos. [MPL]
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
artistic expressions of mathematics over seven centuries. [MB]
Observed | March 20
Black + blue + swoosh = space logo. Cosma Schema wants to
blast this to outer space. Meanwhile, SpaceX wants to
have internet in space. [MPL]
“That is the great learning tool and the great joy of life: this idea that you sit down and out of nothing, you create something.” On the 50th anniversary of his iconic poster for Bob Dylan,
an interview with Milton Glaser. [MB]
