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Link love for January 20th

by Jeffrey Melton on January 20, 2010

A Tree in Jars, an art installation by Naoko Ito (above).
Synth Britannia and Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany are two great BBC Four documentaries, but you’ll need to find torrents to watch them, as they’re not streamable online (even to rent) due to music licensing restrictions.
On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an [...]

Link love for December 4th

by Jeffrey Melton on December 4, 2009

The artwork of Chiharu Shiota (above).
The other extreme: low-alcohol beers.
Deep below New York City’s bustling streets lies a dangerous world inhabited by “sandhogs.”
The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach.
How Robber Barons hijacked the “Victorian Internet”
Robert Henke talks with Rashad Becker about audio mastering.
Apple’s Mistake: An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose [...]

Link love for August 26th

by Jeffrey Melton on August 26, 2009

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 sublime electronic soundtrack by Loscil, [...]

Link love for August 17th

by Jeffrey Melton on August 17, 2009

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 thrive in ever-changing organizational environments.
Top [...]

Link love for July 21st

by Jeffrey Melton on July 21, 2009

Sp #1 (above): soot on plexiglass by Daniel Adam Turner
We love (and wish we could afford) Aether’s jackets.
Design Ignites Change promotes and encourages talented high school and college students across the country to use design thinking and innovation to create messages for, and solutions to, pressing social problems.
Complete Yale courses now on iTunes U.
Eros, a [...]

Link love for June 18th, part 1

by Jeffrey Melton on June 18, 2009

Modern Fire Extinguishers (above) by Fire Design.
Warp20 box set celebrates 20 years of warped goodness.
Photos of Edwardians, or “Teddy Boys”, by Ben Watts.
Mad libs official website.
OneLessOffice suite of products by Heckler Design.
Architecture of energy, by Lebbeus Woods
As the focus of design shifts from the production of finite goods to a practice of experimentation, ideas take [...]