The Sony Music Timeline celebrates “125 years of musical history covering almost 150 square meters of wall space in Sony’s Derry Street offices. Using just CNC cut vinyl as the sole medium, 54 columns measuring over 2 meters tall cover feature nearly 1000 of Sony Music’s signed artists from 1887 to the present day.” I’m [...]
In celebration of The Rolling Stones’ 50th Anniversary, Japanese distillery Suntory has released 150 limited edition whiskey bottles shaped in the band’s iconic lips and tongue logo. It’ll be Suntory time for you, if you have $6,300 to spare for one of these bottles. Probably best to just get a bottle of Jack Daniels white [...]
When it comes to airline travel, there’s probably no more of a divisive issue than traveling with young kids. Single adults and business travelers hate being around messy, unruly kids. The parents of said kids are just trying to hold on and make it through as best they can. It’s a situation where no one [...]
Lauren Leto has a new book out, ‘Judging a Book By Its Lover‘, and the website set up for it is positively astounding. Well worth checking out on your lunch break or later tonight. Clicking through the site gets a bit annoying, but stick with it. Leto is best known for “Texts From Last Night“.
What is this voodoo magic? Josh Bechtel’s Bicymple prototype is an interesting evolution of the bicycle. By removing the chain, the number of moving parts and overall complexity is significantly reduced. A direct-drive, freewheeling hub joins the crank arm axis with the rear-wheel axis, shortening the wheelbase and minimizing the design. More than just a [...]
Inspired by Bob Dylan’s cue cards from his “Subterranean Homesick Blues” video in 1965, Artist Leandro Senna made his own cue cards featuring handmade type. Only pencils, black tint pens and brushes were used on the cards, which makes the lack of computer assistance all the more impressive considering how lovely his types are. [via [...]
The latest from PBS Off Book: “The explosion of the internet over the past 20 years has led to the development of one of the newest creative mediums: the website. Web designers have adapted through the technological developments of html, CSS, Flash, and JavaScript, and have mastered the balance between creativity and usability. Now with [...]
The London Underground map is iconic in every way possible. It was first conceived by Harry Beck, an engineering draftsman, in the 1930s drawing inspiration from electrical schematics. Flash-forward to the 2012 and Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki, inspired by that historical footnote, created a functional radio circuit board resembling the famous subway map.
