{"id":3523,"date":"2026-05-25T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:40:36","slug":"sunday-scraps-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/sunday-scraps-121\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #121"},"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\/sFX5kkTAnYY?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>500 opened tabs on my phone are burning a hole in my pocket so here we go.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to hear <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Surkin\">Gener8tion<\/a> (yes from that amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x6_mbnsh6VU\">video<\/a>) studied art in <a href=\"https:\/\/villa-arson.fr\/en\/\">Villa Arson<\/a> which I visited last Christmas \/ Steven Ahlgren&#8217;s photographs of offices in the 90s are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2022\/feb\/26\/writer-of-american-office-parks-and-recreation-michael-schur-returning-to-work\">iconic<\/a> \/ a lovely and deeply depressing visualisation of <a href=\"https:\/\/blinddates.rory.codes\/\">Guardian Blind Dates<\/a> \/ I&#8217;m not into horror films but I would start a romcom equivalent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenickel.co.uk\/\">Nickel Cinema<\/a> in a heartbeat \/ my work commute is making me think of buying a <a href=\"https:\/\/ukdepartureboards.co.uk\/\">train departure display<\/a> \/ a very funny take on how to behave like an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JgVBqcqUGE0\">AI snake oil salesman<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/platform.coop\/blog\/solidarity-gaps-why-french-nannies-want-their-own-platform-cooperative\/\">French nannies<\/a> probably need open source platforms \/ a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nebriefing.org\/screening-map\">map<\/a> to show you where you can see the National Emergency Briefing film \/ the word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/garner\">garner<\/a> used to describe a form of leased storage \/ having flashbacks to 2006 with <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/personal-software\/making-software-without-having-learned-to-program-87f8caa0ebeb\">thought pieces<\/a> about how easy it is to program now \/ I didn&#8217;t know the founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z1U5Pave3jM?si=WE58FfaoCP8AOZU2\">Mati\u00e8res F\u00e9cales<\/a> met in Montr\u00e9al at College Lasalle \/ a fun interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NFF4xgAlZ8A\">Paulina Borsook<\/a> and friends is a good reminder the web was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cyberselfish-Critical-Through-Terribly-Libertarian\/dp\/1586480383\">hippies<\/a> \/\u00a0 an incredible doco about the bloody history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F4uHlI6ASlc\">sugar trade<\/a> \/ this short <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GMFyg3VFSeQ\">political film<\/a> gets right to the point and I wish liberal governments would deploy the arts in more strategic ways \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/humorphism.com\/\">humorphism<\/a> feels like service design on crack \/ a friend interviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/go.gale.com\/ps\/i.do?id=GALE%7CA263034731&amp;sid=googleScholar&amp;v=2.1&amp;it=r&amp;linkaccess=abs&amp;issn=13658190&amp;sw=w&amp;p=AONE&amp;userGroupName=anon%7E2525e237&amp;aty=open-web-entry\">Marina Abramovi\u0107<\/a> when she turned 50 \/ still thinking about this <a href=\"https:\/\/xrysessyntages.com\/syntages\/glyka\/1-2-3-4-o-afthentikos-chalvas\/\">Greek semolina cake<\/a> \/\u00a0 a new magazine about <a href=\"https:\/\/toothsome.xyz\/\">food and conviviality<\/a> \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/katerinaskouzina.com\/blog\/katerinas-top-5-things-to-do-on-poros.html\">mountain range<\/a> that looks like a woman sleeping \/ a great read on design and <a href=\"https:\/\/productpicnic.beehiiv.com\/p\/designers-will-never-have-influence-without-understanding-how-organizations-learn\">organisational politics<\/a> \/\u00a0 this two day anti-conference by <a href=\"https:\/\/luma.com\/z8ip5g34\">Made by Many<\/a> looks cute \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSclhQnqL31riIh78TPYDwWvP4J3KfCwKGvMDtuQ30-9WZjYpQ\/viewform\">Peckham Digital<\/a> have an open call for submissions.<\/p>\n<p>Some health related links (because of new job):<\/p>\n<p>How <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.uol.edu.pk\/the-sky\/article\/view\/2071\">PE classes<\/a> impact your appetite for physical activity later in life \/ Richard wrote a nice piece about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.platformland.xyz\/ways-of-doing\/lobster-pots-complexity-and-starting-small-in-the-right-way\/\">complexity<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthia.services\/insight\/problems-worth-solving-tero-vaananen\">Tero<\/a> was interviewed about design in the NHS \/ a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns\">heartbreaking piece<\/a> about preventative medicine hesitancy by parents and how it compromises infants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Added to my <strong>commonplace book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Likes are cool, replies are better, conversations are best<\/em> (found on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/psingletary.com\/post\/3mmlwmkic7c2v\">Bluesky<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>What you need won&#8217;t appear until you need it. [&#8230;] Sometimes you just have to decide. At other times you won&#8217;t even need to do that.<\/em> (from <a href=\"https:\/\/ckarchive.com\/b\/qdu8h7h45knx2azwnnmw7u8gm968gi4h4kglp\">The Imperfectionist<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>Images taken in the Cupola bear some thematic resemblance to representations of women in visual art in the late 19th century<\/em> (from a <a href=\"https:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/doi\/10.2514\/1.A35686\">journal article<\/a> about population distribution inside the ISS)<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>social news<\/strong>, I had a very busy week last week with something on almost every night. I gave a talk at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/camcreatives\/events\/312834119\/?eventOrigin=group_past_events\">CamCreatives<\/a> in Cambridge, went to <a href=\"https:\/\/interesting.blot.im\/\">Interesting<\/a> (which was lovely), ran the 154th edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/iotlondon\/\">London Internet of Things Meetup<\/a> and had a friend over for dinner. I haven&#8217;t been that busy since the early 2000s. Next week, thankfully, is quieter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>500 opened tabs on my phone are burning a hole in my pocket so here we go. I was delighted to hear Gener8tion (yes from that amazing video) studied art in Villa Arson which I visited last Christmas \/ Steven Ahlgren&#8217;s photographs of offices in the 90s are iconic \/ a lovely and deeply depressing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/sunday-scraps-121\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #121<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-UP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","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=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}