#6 — Periscope
This week: memories of the space age.
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#226 — Pictureness
John Self recently bloosked this passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1997 novel Timequake, which feels exceedingly relevant to the current state of creative affairs: “People capable of liking some paintings or prints or whatever can rarely do so without knowing something about the artist. Again, the situation is social rather
#225 — Disillusionment
Reprise New cover for Dalkey Archive Press – Reprise, collecting three volumes of short stories by Nicholas Delbanco. That’s Ida In An Interior With Piano by Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi and isn’t it lovely? Disillusionment boom Creative Boom’s Katy Cowan on resisting Substack and disillusionment with the social
#224 — Wiki … ing
I’ve made my first ever Wikipedia edit! After a bit of lunchtime detective work and intense reverse image searching, I learnt that the image on the cover of Blur’s Blur is by American photographer Scott Goldsmith, licensed by designers Yacht Associates as a stock photo. The internet’s
#223 — Madness
I’ve found myself on the New York Times’ 73 Best Illustrations of 2024 list, for my front page of Sunday Opinion back in April. I’ve done a few NYT things recently, but this one was a real joy, working alongside art director Akshita Chandra. And a big thank