#64 — Unmonetisable
Unmonetisable enthusiasms.
"Whatever happened to that newsletter thing you used to do?” … Okay, yes, it’s been a while. I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time away from my desk these last few months (in summary: I heart the NHS), and Meanwhile has repeatedly been pushed to the bottom of my to do list. Anyway, enough with the vague apologies – here’s some hyperlinks!
- Russell Davies argues that we still need an internet of unmonetisable enthusiasms – i.e. more weird blogs please.
- Queen of the booktubers Holly Dunn looks at Art of the Film books.
- How the design of dice evolved over time – I haven't Warhammered, Blood Bowled or indeed Dark Futured for many a year, but I still find myself getting a weird hankering for a weighty bag of D20s every now and then.
- Phantom Thread is the best food movie in ages.
- Merriam-Webster’s backward index is wonderful, assuming you have a thing for fusty old card catalogues and rhyming dictionaries. Of course you do.
- How Michael Bierut picks a typeface (doesn't he just flick through a copy of 79 Short Essays like everybody else?).
- Christoph Niemann's minimal LEGO New York – might try an old York version with the boy, as long as I can convince him it's a First Order spaceship of some kind.
- Tate have been digitising artists' sketchbooks, letters and photos. Would love to see an exhibition of this stuff in the flesh.
- George Mayerle’s Eye Test Chart (circa 1907).
- Historical generals pointing out the toilets is much funnier than it should be.
- A short film about a one-of-a-kind collection of letterpress plates for printing film advertisements and yes I'm heading to eBay for some of these too get out of my way dammit.
- And a few things I've been up to: designing books; reading Deyan Sudjic's excellent B Is For Bauhaus; art directing Monotype's Wolpe Collection launch; watching films; getting distracted by collagist John Stezaker; and designing more books.
