Hansel and Gretel concertina book (above) by illustrator Owen Gatley. Underground Berlin: the film treatment by Lebbeus Woods. Tungsten: A new font family from H&FJ. Brian Eno on composing: “The avant-garde technique would be to go ahead with it anyway, because the process is supposed to be interesting in itself. I don’t go for that. [...]
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A.V. Club interviews John Crowley on the occassion of the 25th-anniversary of Little Big (above) We are all mutants say scientists. Books to read now, from Seed magazine. Forget design thinking and try hybrid thinking. Human Centered Design Toolkit from IDEO. Spirograph, spirographs, spirography. Get your Philip K. Dick collection boxed set from The Library [...]
Kind of Bloop (above): An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue. How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?. Art of the arcade. How to develop groove in your playing. 12 Greenest colleges and universities in the U.S. Osmos has a [...]
We Are The Friction (above) is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs A short manifesto on the future of attention. The mystery of Times New Roma. Finalists for the 2009 James Dyson Award. Lessons from slime mold: how to survive and [...]
Track and Field: Drawing from the Arena (above), by Cassandra Jones. 5 Reasons your marketing plan will fail. New editions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series let you create your own cover art. An investigation by The Smoking Gun unmasks the leader of Pranknet and the miscreants behind a year-long wave of phone [...]
The State: The Complete Series (above) is finally available on DVD (affiliate link). Consumers get paid to reduce their emissions. The fifth edition of The Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt is now available. Michael Bay as Generative Art: Explosion Action Painting with oF. An essay against Situationism. Open Atrium is a customizable, [...]
Hayo Miyazaki’s Ponyo (above), a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Little Mermaid.’ (video) Futurespeak: Shane Hope’s keywords defined. Gary Hamel on managing Generation Y. The evidence is growing that privately owned, consumer-driven, small-scale, geographically distributed renewables could deliver a 100% green-energy future faster and cheaper than big power projects alone. The [...]