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Remembrance Day

LB — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:41:43 +0000

My grandfather landed on a Normandy beach on D-Day when he was 35 years old. He was a Canadian officer on loan to a British regiment, so he landed with the British on Sword Beach rather than with the Canadians on Juno.

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2thewalls

LB — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:40:40 +0000

2thewalls is the closest thing on the internet to the much-missed and now cult-status Nest: Quarterly of Interiors. Finding 2thewalls is a bit like falling down the rabbit hole, and not just because reading it feels like deciphering text printed on a zebra crossing.

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Militant Guild of Rural Tailors – Young Meagher

LB — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:17:38 +0000

Young Meagher’s “Militant Guild of Rural Tailors” is apparently a fashion line that doubles as a faux-museological collection of objects and textiles purportedly belonging to a revolutionary worldwide underground cult of rural tailors reaching back into early 19th C history.

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Army blanket pillows, swords into ploughshares.

LB — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:52:22 +0000

This post is a personal addendum to our earlier post about a discussion amongst readers of another design blog about whether one designer had copied or “borrowed” another designer’s idea.

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