Daniel Benneworth-Gray

Meanwhile #006

This week: memories of the space age.

Meanwhile #005

This week: sooner or later everything turns into television.

Meanwhile #004

Vacuum cleaners, chicken bones, vague promises, centripetal privilege and academia nuts.

Meanwhile #003

This week: boulders, novellas, giant crabs, chisels, backsides.

Meanwhile #002

Hello – Another week, another digest of reading material from the four corners of the web! First up, Peter Mendelsund's visual essay exploring his own approach to the work of Italo Calvino – fascinating stuff, and a great use of tumblr:  “As the same moment that this design was taking

Meanwhile #001

Hello — So this is the first edition of Meanwhile, a weekly digest of design-related links and thinks scraped off my desk and into your lap. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. “This sentence has been the talk of grammarians since 1972. According to William Rapaport, its creator and

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Music

So here it is, yet another version of iTunes. Another update, another shuffling around of bells and whistles. As with the last ten versions, there's a lot to love and a lot to hate about iTunes 11. It's still suffering from a decade of feature creep

Interviews

SPIN

Well congrats on the new design! First dumb question: why? Devin Pedzwater: SPIN had to change. Last April, we decided to completely rethink everything about the brand. We committed ourselves to the challenge of looking beyond how we were operating and re-conceiving the SPIN brand as if it were being

Interviews

Mark Porter

You've set up your own consultancy, Mark Porter Associates. How are you finding it, not being part of an in-house team anymore? It's very liberating. The Guardian was a wonderful place to work for a long time, and I got to do some some fantastic projects.

Paris

Armed with little more than a camera, a dog-eared Wallpaper guide and a pocket full of Euros, Dr B and I explored Paris over the weekend. A jolly good time was had, and we're now very tired. Very, very tired. In summary: * It's possible to get

Interviews

House Industries

Few type foundries display as much love for their craft as Delaware's House Industries. Established in 1994, they've amassed an impressive collection of fonts, and created all manner of type-related products along the way (clothing lines, furniture, toys – not to mention their exquisitely-designed catalogues). They'

The inevitable obsolescence of digital publishing

I love new inventions. I love using technology in new ways to solve old problems. The future excites me. On top of this, yes, I admit it, I'm a shameless Apple acolyte. And yet, with all the recent discussion about the iPad and the future of publishing, I