{"id":3378,"date":"2025-12-22T18:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:05:16","slug":"sunday-scraps-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/sunday-scraps-106\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #106"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ayjo0OqzN80?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSYuM0iDBzJ\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\">critique<\/a> of the Vanity Fair White House photoshoot is on point \/ I&#8217;m late to the party but <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/aoi\/\">Articles of Interest<\/a> is an excellent podcast about clothes which led me down a rabbit hole where I found out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levistrauss.com\/2014\/07\/07\/dockers-and-the-birth-of-casual-fridays\/\">Levi&#8217;s created &#8216;casual fridays&#8217;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Somerton_Man\">a mysterious death<\/a> in the 1940s \/ I&#8217;m not sure we should be using <a href=\"https:\/\/themidst.substack.com\/p\/aging-out-of-fcks\">science to talk about this late stage of feminism<\/a>, but hey if it helps us make space for difficult feelings, why not \/ finding out about <a href=\"https:\/\/designafterprogress.uni.mau.se\/\">design circles<\/a> \/ I think it&#8217;s important to read pre-internet visions of the internet&#8217;s impact and <a href=\"https:\/\/monoskop.org\/images\/b\/be\/Nelson_Ted_Literary_Machines_c1987_chs_0-1.pdf\">Literary Machines<\/a> (1981) is such a thing \/ I&#8217;ve been told I need to read <a href=\"https:\/\/erinmeyer.com\/books\/the-culture-map\/\">the Culture Map<\/a> \/ again, late to the party but I have fallen in love with matcha which means I&#8217;m replacing coffee with an even more expensive foodstuff so thank god i can save on postage by picking up from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postcardteas.com\/site\/product\/uji-matcha\/\">Postcard Teas<\/a> who stone roll their own \/ incredible that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whosampled.com\/Sister-Irene-O%27Connor\/Fire-(Luke-12%3A49)\/\">James Blake sampled Sister Irene O&#8217;Connor<\/a> \/ some beautiful candid photos of <a href=\"https:\/\/ccmht.org\/breuerhouseproject\">Marcel Breuer<\/a> at home in Cape Cod.<\/p>\n<p>In social news, it&#8217;s my birthday tomorrow so if you enjoy these notes, please let me know in the comments. That will feel like candles on a cake.<\/p>\n<p>In job search news, I&#8217;m half way through my contract with the Energy Systems Catapult Living Lab so will be available from Q1 if you&#8217;d like to talk to me about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/services\/\">what I do and how I could help<\/a>, slide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/contact\/\">into my DMs<\/a>. If there&#8217;s a full time role, that would be even better but hey, I&#8217;m easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The critique of the Vanity Fair White House photoshoot is on point \/ I&#8217;m late to the party but Articles of Interest is an excellent podcast about clothes which led me down a rabbit hole where I found out Levi&#8217;s created &#8216;casual fridays&#8217; and a mysterious death in the 1940s \/ I&#8217;m not sure we&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/sunday-scraps-106\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #106<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-Su","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}