100 and ninety-eight? Actually? Yep. I’ve had a little bit of a tidy and corralled all of my newsletters from ten years of platform-hopping into one place. Annoyingly, a number of the older hyperlinks are damaged (suffice to say MailChimp is an utter git should you dare to go elsewhere), nevertheless it’s been awfully satisfying to return by all of it and overview the ebb and circulation of my fascinations. Have a delve into the archive, see the place it takes you.
A brand new piece for the New York Occasions, illustrating an article on mind accidents attributable to blast publicity and the way artillery is actually killing members of the navy who don’t even see fight. Editorial work is such a distinct tempo to e-book design – turnaround of 1 or two days quite than a number of months (and even years). It’s intense, however rattling I find it irresistible.
Slightly blown away by the digital tour of the George Eastman Museum’s Crashing into the Sixties movie poster exhibition. Correctly immersive; a superb use of 3D modelling. One of many drawbacks of viewing posters on-screen is you lose a way of scale, however with this you actually recognize how monumental a few of these items are.
(thanks Eric for the tip)
Elsewhere within the newslettiverse:
Owen D. Pomery on architectural drawing and the artwork of making a plausible area;
Marina Amaral on pretend historic pictures and the way the growing sophistication of AI-generated pictures raises considerations concerning the reliability of visible proof; and
Gia asks, what’s a feminine robotic?
Finest phrases growled by Tom Waits in A Transient Historical past of John Baldessari: peepholes; biennale; pushpins; Giotto; dots.
Love this element from Frank Herbert’s wiki web page:
“The novel originated when he was assigned to put in writing {a magazine} article about sand dunes within the Oregon Dunes close to Florence, Oregon. He acquired overinvolved and ended up with much more uncooked materials than wanted for an article. The article was by no means written, nevertheless it planted the seed that led to Dune.”
Overinvolved.
My Threads has was one thing of a monochromatic scrapbook. Probably not positive why, however I like utilizing it in a totally totally different technique to twitter. Correct good quaint micro-blogging. It virtually looks like – ask your grandparents – tumblr.
As a brand new sequence of Neverending Story motion pictures is introduced, behold one of the all time great cosplays.
That’s all.
This was initially posted on In the meantime, a Substack devoted to inspiration, fascination, and procrastination from the desk of designer Daniel Benneworth-Grey.
Collage by the creator for the New York Occasions.
