2013-03-04
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Len Deighton, quoted in an article about his book Bomber, the first ever written on a word processor in Slate Magazine.
(The entire article’s fascinating, but I thought this was a particularly Tumblr-ish quote.)
2012-10-04
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Underground Maps Unravelled: Explorations in Information Design, by Max Roberts (via things)
This sounds like one to get.
Despite the link to the Amazon page in the thingsmagazine post, the book is only available direct from the author.
2012-05-01
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Architectural Signing and Graphics by John Follis and Dave Hammer, as posted by Joe Kral to Flickr.
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A Sign Systems Manual by Theo Crosby, Alan Fletcher, and Colin Forbes, as posted by Joe Kral to Flickr.
If you’re curious, there’s a set of photos from inside the book on Flickr, and a few on Amazon (although you’ll do well to find the book).
2012-04-11
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Phonebook documenting calls to every 765-4321 phone number in America
2012-03-27
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Back Cover of the Pan An Complete Reference Guide to France.
Azimuthal polar projection, cropped and rotated. See also.
2012-03-23
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“The Glitch Moment(um)” by Rosa Menkman, reviewed by Greg J. Smith:
One need only look as far as the upstart GLI.TC/H festival and its vibrant constellation of related practitioners to see that the glitch aesthetic is alive and well. Rosa Menkman has been active as an artist, theorist, organizer and agitator within this milieu and at the tail end of last year she published The Glitch Moment(um), which threads together a number of writing and research projects into a rather authoritative overview of engineered disruption as critical media practice.
More, and some screenshots, at the full review.
