Meanwhile #066
The complexity is mind-boggling.
This is an old edition of Meanwhile from an inferior, more simian newsletter platform that has unhelpfully severed all the hyperlinks. It’s included here in the archive simply for sake of completeness.
- Joy Division artwork? Tony Wilson mosaic? Menus made out of bits of Hacienda sign? Or … how about some decent restaurants? On the theme parkification of Manchester.
- Simon Sinek on intensity versus consistency. Wise, wise words, plus fab animation by Jocie Juritz.
- Axonometric illustrations of London tube stations. We take these for granted so much, but when you look at them in a different way, the complexity is mind-boggling. How does one even go about designing underground?
- In search of lost time in Europe’s sanatoriums. Like strange, beautiful colonies on distant planets.
- This Eye/Anne Miltenburg interview with book design legend Irma Boom from 2014 is well worth revisiting. I just wish I could afford any of her books.
- Present & Correct’s Old Books We Saw At Markets But Didn’t Always Buy is a wonderful resource of mostly non-English mid-century graphic design.
- Disney’s script to screen videos are excellent little lessons in the art of screenwriting. The Anton Ego speech from Ratatouille – arguably one of the best films about design – is particularly good.
- Ralph Steadman visits Disneyland.
- Have you see Lady Bird yet? Why not? If you have, you’ll almost certainly want Girls On Tops’ Greta Gerwig tee.
- The second season of Legion is almost upon us. Very excited – the first season managed to blend the usual Marvel comics nonsense with some of the most experimental television this side of Twin Peaks. And it was FUN.
- Print Stuff is returning to York next month. Well worth a visit if you want to spend lots of money on lovely printed loveliness.
- WAR. What is it good for? Illustration.
That is all.
