Care Package—August 2023

”When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

via UNSTABLE FRAGMENTS

via Equillibrium. One reblog adds: “and effort”.

via Samuel Beek. The classic Swatch silhoette really lends itself to all sorts of crazy ideas, even several decades after its inception.

via Fast Company. This is Jony Ive’s new(ish) typeface. I can’t imagine myself going from designing the world’s most ubiquitous objects to designing characters. Still sounds like a happy retirement. Presumably, he isn’t dragging little nodes on a screen—it doesn’t look like this was made that way at all.

via griefcase

via GENERAL OFFICE STUDIO

via eccö archive. “An X-ray image of the blood vessels of the hand made using mercury injection”. That couldn’t have boded well for the hand.

via METAPHYSICS

via Ads of the World

via Jon Gasca. This looks like the ideal vacation—beach vibes, sans beach.

via BP&O

via Joseph Fasano. This is probably the most profound thing I’ve read all year. I’m on the verge of tears every time I read it. It reminds me of Matthew 6:26. There is something about nature simply existing, persisting, that convinces one to keep doing the same.

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Some stray links:

• Over on my Instagram, I’m talking about a potential design movement post-minimalism, and Filipino tricycles built like ATV’s.

• The Maker’s Schedule—“Don't your spirits rise at the thought of having an entire day free to work, with no appointments at all? Well, that means your spirits are correspondingly depressed when you don't.”

• An Architecture of the Place—“Frampton’s ideas of an architecture that is sensitive to tectonics, materiality, to the particularities of a site are equally valid today.” The phrase “ahead of their time” was made for minds such as Kenneth Frampton.