This entire post from the people at Optional in Iceland. Business-card sized notebooks, flipbacks, prototypes – must re-read and digest. I still have some of their excellent island-themed notebooks.
Category: links and bookmarks
links and bookmarksTaking a moment to look back on my mark-making here recently and pick out the pieces I thought worked better than others, mostly for my own consideration going forward.
Donnée Book – which I should have just added to the “notebooking patrol“
Proust And His Fucking Biscuit (this thought is still too half-formed)
The Google Trends Window – (useful to people other than me!)
How To Organise A Writing Office On The Cheap (useful to people other than me!)
DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT Wrapped
Flash Fictions – a large and almost complete thought, which I need to revisit
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Enjoying the design choices for the food products now being offered by NOMA Projects. I never got to eat at NOMA, obviously; and, of course, now I never will, as the restaurant is closed. But I have read Rene Redzepi’s books (which are excellent), and even got to talk to him a couple of times back in the days when you could use Twitter to talk to people. And now they’re releasing food products, which promise the tiniest hint of what it must have been like to dine there. I really hope it works out for them.
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Our Otl Aicher inspired passport cover is ideal to hold your passport plus up to three bank cards or rail tickets. Available in Dark Blue for you traditionalists and Bright Orange for those who want a completely non- traditional connotation free colour (unless you are Dutch of course)
The pictogram system, designed by Gerhard Joksch under the supervision of Design Commissioner Otl Aicher, originally for the Munich Olympic Games, was intended to be easily understandable and accessible to every visitor, irrespective of their native language. The visual identity for the Munich Olympics and the pictogram system has endured way beyond the 1972 Games. It is now considered a benchmark in visual identity and graphic design.
I already own the card wallet version, but I am sorely tempted by this passport cover.
I have feelings about these things. For me, where I’m from, at my age, those pictograms still signal promise and a new future.
Comments closedTaking a moment to look back on my mark-making here recently and pick out the pieces I thought worked better than others, mostly for my own consideration going forward.
I will say that I’ve been really slack on LTD, and notemaking in general, this year so far.
On Creating THE AUTHORITY With Bryan Hitch
MISTER MAMMOTH, Matt Kindt & Jean-Denis Pendanx
FASSBINDER THOUSANDS OF MIRRORS, Ian Penman
The City Is Ribbed For Your Pleasure
Comments closed- INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS SAY U.S. HAS RETRIEVED CRAFT OF NON-HUMAN ORIGIN – it’s that time again, I guess. This link actually showed up on Politico
- ‘Dealing with kidnappers is easy!’ A hostage negotiator reveals the secrets that can transform your life – fairly desperate headline from the Guardian lifestyle section there
- Chapels of the Plain | World Heritage Journeys of Europe
The stages of Alban Fischer’s cover for BARILOCHE:
Oliver Munday:
Carlos Esparza;
Latter two from Casual Optimist’s essential monthly round-up.
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At the weekend I discovered that the Google Trends real-time visualiser is still up. I remember when this launched – I have a feeling it was an experiment back then, possibly out of Google Labs. Each of these windows changes every three seconds or so. I like to imagine something like this with headlines and RSS as close to an ideal informational environment. I wish something like that existed. I find this very pleasant to spend time with. It’s the glinting light on the surface of the river of what the world is talking about.
Comments closedTaking a moment to look back on my mark-making here recently and pick out the pieces I thought worked better than others, mostly for my own consideration going forward.
Apparently We Just Give Up And Call It Magic Now
On The Speaking Of Names: TOURS OF THE BLACK CLOCK, Steve Erickson
Swim Against The Current: NOVELIST AS A VOCATION, Haruki Murakami
One Hell Closes, Another One Opens
CARNAGE: Web Of Carnage
Audiobooks Without Audible, Books Without Amazon
Comments closed(Edith) Wharton always kept a donnée book (a French word meaning the nascent elements of a story) in which she recorded the plot outlines, little one-liners, social critiques, and clever analogies that would someday be used in one of her books.
Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors, Sarah Stodola (shop)
Manuscript notebook with names of characters, pieces of dialogue; excerpts of what would become The House of Mirth.One Comment