Sunday Scraps #15

A guide to modernism in Metroland / Mike Davis talks about coronavirus / A french podcast about Eileen Gray (yet another book came out back in Feb) / Making art work / Why Is the West So Powerful—And So Peculiar? / The impact of Brexit on food / Nora Ephron’s 1996 commencement address / The future of… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #15

Sunday Scraps #14

Senscommon overcoat / Why facts don’t change our mind / Travelling Salesman Problem / If the Chair Fits: Sexism in American Office Furniture Design / Happy Rainy Days long raincoat / A Message from your University’s Vice President for Magical Thinking / Designerly Ways of Knowing: Design Discipline versus Design Science / The “Visual Depiction… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #14

Sunday Scraps #13

Long Barn, Vita Sackville-West first prototype garden 15 years before Sissinghurst / What to do with leftover fabric (I’m sewing and can’t believe how much waste there is) / Thai style omelette / another Steigler talk this time in January at Transmediale / The law of evolution as maximal principle which he mentions / Project Drawdown… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #13

Sunday Scraps #12

Attachment theory / Design in innovation report that was just published by Innovate UK (my quick critique on Twitter) / Grace Dent‘s perfect commentary on eating out in a pandemic / Dr. Joan Sinner gives me hope that you can become someone completely different later in life / Golden Lane Estate (the prototype for Barbican)/… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #12

Sunday Scraps #11

The story behind that burning man photo on the Pink Floyd Album / I don’t have a lot of time for Nick Cave as a politically literate person but at least he wrote a nice thing about Nina Simone / Brenda Vale on Autonomous Houses / The Climate House in a building which was ‘saved‘… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #11

Sunday Scraps #10

Caresse Crosby‘s mad life (no decent biog yet) / On whether there’s a sense to history / The history of California based Architectural Pottery (yes that’s the name of the business) whose founders interviewed J.B.Blunk / Pain scales / Immunology and intuition / Dos and don’ts of designing for accessibility / World Wide Waste /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #10

Sunday Scraps #9

Sam Chermayeff (his father was a graphic designer, his grandfather was a product designer) is an architect talking about collective housing like his grandfather’s peers used to / the art of Constant (there doesn’t seem to be many video interviews which is annoying) / a decaying 1960s modernist seminary built by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #9

Sunday Scraps #8

A deep clean of some phone tabs which have been opened since last November. HoroHoro Cookies (found in Kanazawa) / Katrien de Blauwer’s exhibition at the Foto Museum in Rotterdam (one of my favorite artists) / I didn’t necessarily agree with this NYTimes article on the patriarchy of Alcoholics Anonymous but it was an interesting… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #8

Sunday Scraps #7

Human Systems (Berlin) / The home and ‘digital glimpsing’ / The first 1968 First Things First graphic design manifesto / Arthur Pieper’s House / Jonny Hill’s house for the wealthy Corbetts /First Things First 2020 podcast on climate change education / the now demolished 60 Hornton Street house / the powerful myth of sunscreen /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #7

Sunday Scraps #6

(Office deep clean kind of day) The problems of restoring light art / The open society and its enemies / Japan Dome House / Mr Straw’s House / the architect Charles Holden / Excellent pecorino and almond biscuits / Allan Octavian Hume who ran the South London Botanical Institute and was linked to Helena Blavatsky‘s… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #6