Meanwhile #027

The Typewriter: A Graphic History of the Beloved Machine – From the makes of Uppercase magazine, so you already know it's going to be good. Full of pictures, adverts, anecdotes and general typewritery loveliness. Really rather wonderful.

Here – Richard McGuire's book/comic/art is quite unlike anything else. It's the non-linear, overlapping story of the corner of a room between the years 500,957,406,073 BC and 2033 AD. It's incredible. Get your eyes on it before the idea is inevitably pinched and diluted for a furniture advert.

Judge This - Chip Kidd spouting forth his designly wisdom is always worth a read. One of several nice little TED books that will fit neatly into a stocking.

Brutalist London Map – Blue Crow Media's first cartographic collaboration with the Twentieth Century Society. If you're in London, here's your Boxing Day walk sorted.

Brusselmole – Then again, maybe not. 

Cosmos – Kickstarted magnetic wooden minimal modular space exploration toy kits. Enough boxes ticked for you?

A6 notebook – For jotting down your thoughts whilst driving the A6. Yet another brilliant-simple idea from the brain of Nick Asbury. Can't wait for the A1 edition. 

Sky High – If you really, absolutely must do some zeitgeisty colouring in, don't bother with yet another book of floral patterns. You can colour anything! This tall tale of competitive architecture is just the ticket – Albertine's outline illustrations demand a good inking. 

Absolutely anything from Unit Editions – Big and lovely printed lovely books that smell lovely. Garland, Henrion, Lubalin, Wyman, Brook, Shaughnessy, they're all here somewhere.  

Gradient jigsaw – Now this is some mindful puzzle-jazz. Exceedingly calming or exceedingly maddening, depending on your disposition. 

Björk: Archives – Look, if you don't like Björk, that's fine. Move on. It's not for you. If you do like her (and are therefore a superior human being to those puny little non-believers), you need this. You need it.

The deeds to a platinum mine – Did you know that everything on Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby wishlist would set you back $1,167,854,838.80? Of course you did. 

Concrete desk set – Tape dispenser, pencil pot and tray cast from solid concrete, designed by Magnus Pettersen for Areaware. Because your desk just isn't brutal enough. 

Dox Quixote  – Visual Editions' latest reimagined classic. With photography by Jacob Robinson, design by Fraser Muggeridge Studio and an introduction by Ali Smith, it's huge and beautiful thing.

Lego WALL-E – Come on, can you think of a single good reason why you shouldn't own this?

Creative Review subscription – Obviously.

That is all.