Observed | May 24
“Design in this century has little use for anything that can’t be quantified. And yet, here is Apple’s App Store, presenting
new, original illustrations several times a week.” [BV]
Observed | May 23
Bill Gold, the seminal designer who created posters for some of Hollywood‘s most famous movies—from
A Streetcar Named Desire to
The Exorcist—has died. [LS]
Pilot and photographer Christiaan van Heijst captures
his stunning view of weather from the cockpit. [BV]
Goodbye Philip Roth,
designer manqué. [BV]
Observed | May 22
Sadly we must
say goodbye to Robert Indiana, who brought his world-famous LOVE sculpture to NYC in 1971. [BV]
Adherents to Design Thinking believe it
will save higher ed. Are they delusional? [BV]
Adieu
Interview. Almost 50 years after it was founded by Andy Warhol,
the magazine is shutting down. [BV]
Observed | May 18
A Qin dynasty document from the third-century B.C.E, titled “The Volume of Crime Scene Investigation—Burglary,” pointed up fingerprints as a means of evincing whodunnit:
The surprising history (and future) of fingerprints. [BV]
Observed | May 16
Glamour shots of chickens. [BV]
This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center presents
The Ark. [BV]
Observed | May 15
There’s very little advice or collective wisdom about
how to properly end a creative project. (h/t Kottke.org) [BV]
Observed | May 14
Some afternoon eye candy:
1930s interior architecture illustrations. [BV]
Katherine Small Gallery is a new gallery in Somerville, Massachusetts dedicated to small exhibits about graphic design and typography. Their first exhibit is “
Ivan Chermayeff: Mostly Early Covers”. [BV]
Observed | May 11
Explore the Marché du Film with the
14 craziest movie posters in Cannes. [BV]
An integral part of NYCxDESIGN, the
Design Pavillion opens tomorrow in Times Square and is hosting some amazing talks next week. [BV]
Observed | May 10
How multimodal city councilor Michelle Wu
gets around Boston. [BV]
Rather than a golden ratio or a moral judgment,
beauty is more like a radical jolt that awakens us to the world. [BV]
Observed | May 09
The rise of the
rural creative class. [BV]
Congratulations to design director extraordinaire
Fred Woodward on receiving the 2018 SPD Herb Lubalin Award for Lifetime Achievement. [BV]
A thoughtful response to the recent “
two spaces after a period” research. (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
Observed | May 08
Opening this Friday, Penguin Random House and Strand Book Store present
Be My Cover, an exhibit of contemporary cover design. [BV]
Women, design, New York.
Discuss! [JH]
Observed | May 07
Where
is design going? [JH]
A brief history of the
dust jacket. [JH]
Observed | May 04
Friday Fun:
stained-glass windows of R. Crumb comics. [BV]
A lovely profile of
Maira Kalman, “for whom image and word are intertwined and of equal importance”. [BV]
Observed | May 03
Truthiness, Kinfolk, and everything you ever wanted to know about
the death of authenticity. [JH]
Maps for Good! [JH]
Observed | May 02
Julian Rothenstein’s
compendium of rare and wonderful alphabets and signs, A2Z+, is out now from Princeton Architectural Press. [MPL]
Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth’s
newest book is a celebration of the original emoji. More
here. [JH]
Bonnie Siegler is an award-winning graphic designer. She is the founder of Eight and a Half, a multidisciplinary design studio based in New York, and before that, was the co-founder of Number Seventeen. She got her degree at Carnegie Mellon University, has taught in the graduate design programs at Yale University, RISD, and the School of Visual Arts and was the 2014 Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the University of Hartford. 
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