{"id":3420,"date":"2026-02-01T18:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:47:36","slug":"sunday-scraps-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/sunday-scraps-112\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #112"},"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\/vACGIhzwUu0?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>A book about the <a href=\"https:\/\/laddesign.net\/Supersonic\">Concorde<\/a> \/\u00a0 can&#8217;t wait until <a href=\"https:\/\/scenesdenuit.ch\/scenes\/nightclub\">Pol Esteve Castell\u00f3<\/a> publishes their book about the architecture of discos \/ will someone curate an exhibition about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-to-film-ice\/\">instructions we give to protestors<\/a> \/ I posit architects started using <a href=\"https:\/\/drawingmatter.org\/arrows\/\">arrows<\/a> when universal road signs were developed \/ Scrutton street might be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.createstreets.com\/projects\/will-shoreditch-works-make-london-better\/\">redeveloped<\/a> and i&#8217;m a bit heartbroken \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/innovator-passports-set-to-accelerate-cutting-edge-nhs-care\">innovation passports<\/a> sound interesting \/ i think we can all agree <a href=\"https:\/\/mahadk.com\/posts\/ai-skills-hub\">a page with links<\/a> isn&#8217;t worth \u00a34.1M \/ went past the smallest <a href=\"https:\/\/livinglondonhistory.com\/keystone-crescent-the-smallest-crescent-in-europe\/\">crescent<\/a> in Europe \/ all due respect but &#8216;treating technology as a public good&#8217; is one of those unworkable vapid statements I wish foresight <a href=\"https:\/\/futuresdigest.substack.com\/p\/shaping-cities-of-well-being-at-the\">consultants<\/a> would stop using \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/antirender.com\/\">antirender<\/a> should be part of local planning processes \/ Ruby Tandoh&#8217;s latest book was a terrific <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7cjR2JLG5jbKxKlEmXdwae?si=8b1b9757ea8c420c\">soundtrack<\/a> to my weekend \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/exhibitions\/expecting-birth-belief-and-protection\">Birthing exhibition<\/a> at the Wellcome is small but oh so worth it \/ i&#8217;m very late to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m00055q2\/episodes\/player\">Rewinder<\/a>, the BBC Radio 4&#8217;s show based on its archive \/ looking forward to seeing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidzwirner.com\/exhibitions\/2026\/r-crumb\">R. Crumb<\/a> show.<\/p>\n<p>In job seeking news, I got my first automated rejection of the year. I don&#8217;t hate the players, but I do hate the game. If I lived in Manchester, I&#8217;d apply for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk\/Job\/JobDetail?JobId=34140\">CEO role at Unit M<\/a> (although shame on them for not posting the salary range). A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/JD-VP-Innovation-Learnign-Strategy-4.pdf\">VP of Innovation, Learning and Strategy role at Tent<\/a> looks interesting. The <a href=\"https:\/\/tbinstitute.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com\/TBI\/job\/London\/Director---Product-Management_JR001880\">TBI AI Director<\/a> role looks interesting but I think that business might be too high octane for me.<\/p>\n<p>In social news, going to pop in to St Leonards-on-Sea for Valentine&#8217;s day to distract myself from the fact that it&#8217;ll mark a year since mum died. I&#8217;m also counting down the days to my April trip to Greece (Athens, Hydra and Aegina). I don&#8217;t holiday often but when I do, I go hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book about the Concorde \/\u00a0 can&#8217;t wait until Pol Esteve Castell\u00f3 publishes their book about the architecture of discos \/ will someone curate an exhibition about the instructions we give to protestors \/ I posit architects started using arrows when universal road signs were developed \/ Scrutton street might be redeveloped and i&#8217;m a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/sunday-scraps-112\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #112<\/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-3420","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-Ta","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","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=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}