Monte Rosa Hutte

Paul Virilio's Terre Natale at the Cartier Foundation

Old post but I have been looking for this book for a while.

french bistros and cafes in sharp decline

Times are hard for Le Fontenoy, the only surviving cafe in this village in north-central France which once had three, as well as a butcher's, a boulangerie, a grocer's and a restaurant. Now, as changing habits and new laws alter the residents' relationship with an erstwhile local fixture, its future is looking bleak. It is a bistro with no kitchen, a former tabac with no cigarettes, and Letouzey's coffers are as empty as his bottle of pastis. read more

Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio
Born in 1932. Lives in La Rochelle.

Emeritus Professor at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris, and chairman and director of the same institution from 1968 to 1998, Paul Virilio became editor of the Espace Critique collection at Editions Galilée in 1973 after the publication of his first philosophical essays.

folding plug - genius

Plug design by Min-Kyu Choi

Dan Perjovschi

British Library agrees a deal with Amazon on ebooks

mixed links from aday

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http://www.grahamsweet.com/

Music:
Mark E. Smith reads the football results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKvBGU01V44

Kurt Cobain feedback over William Burroughs story:
http://www.songfacts.com/category:songs_inspired_by_books.php

Vanity, the self and narcissm on the web:
http://www.insidesocialgames.com/

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/

Great Wall of Books in Macau:
http://www.welltheatre.com/Gallery1.htm

Sustainable architecture

Rural Studio
BBM Sustainable Design
Superuse
Glenn Murcutt

Vesalius's 16th-century anatomy treatise

tokyo fashion blog

Hidden treasure by Andy Day

First form of social:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kula_ring

The story of Mr Anderson’s shears, (and the extraordinary success enjoyed by ‘English Cut’ thereafter)
http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000014.html

Hugh McLeod, the blogging pioneer who has a nice take on social media originating from a tribe in Papua New Guinea. Can’t find original talk on it, but here’s his take on the shears and ‘holy objects’. Sales for English Cut suits soared.
http://gapingvoid.com/2005/01/24/toms-shears/

Year of books tv campaign, beautifully scripted, well cast etc:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ehYulpCB0

Newspaper Club

This is such a good idea, since Mute was printed on the FT press back in the early 90s I have always wanted a way to do small run newspaper print jobs. Great use of post digital.

14bikeco

simple sessions 10

Simpel Session 10 - Practice Day from Dmitri Shushujev on Vimeo.

economist thinking space

Tim and Paul from AMV knocked this one up.

NFL lift off ad

Google Paris Love Ad

So many people ask how user journeys work and this ad uses a really simple technique to illustrate a users journey. Simple but works for me.

The Grid System

New Newspapers

Keiichi Matsuda's Hyper AR

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Dieter Rams at the Deisgn M

Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design makes a product understandable. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is long-lasting. Good design is thorough down to the last detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. Good design is as little design as possible. Copyright Dieter Rams, amended March 2003 and October 2009

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