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Typography over at the Russian People’s Home

LB — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:54:56 +0000

The Russian Hall, formerly the Russian People’s Home, consistently produces typography so clear, so straightforward, so capitalized it is a manifesto in itself, design or political. This what happens when you try to produce design degree zero: the more you eschew style, the more you achieve it.

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Decorating the writing/sewing/gun room

LB — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:24:49 +0000

From The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, 1972. Via here. And for the family outdoors, see here.

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Best 6 year-old dinner party guest: Noah

LB — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:00:13 +0000

Noah: ‘I can’t help buying Doctor Who cards’. Photograph: Caroline Irby

I want to sit next to Noah, age 6. He was interviewed for the Guardian’s Seen and heard series of chats with children:

The world is being destroyed.

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Reference Library is much less academic than it sounds

LB — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:38:13 +0000

The founder of referencelibrary says his blog was born out of his eBay disappointments, as a sort of consolation catalogue of all the things he didn’t win. The photos tagged “Items I Didn’t Win” are so beautiful you can almost feel his disappointment.

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Thank you, deletia, for rolcats

LB — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:18:06 +0000

I found this on the consistently entertaining blog deletia. It was taken from Rolcats, a site featuring fake English translations of an Eastern Bloc version of Lolcats.

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Man discovers darning by accident.

LB — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 07:00:19 +0000

This blog post by Mr. Skona wins this week’s prize for ingenuity and charm.

My lovely wool socks (please excuse the pills) were starting to get a little threadbare around the heels and the ball of the foot.

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Wish Werner Herzog would come by the studio

LB — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:33:26 +0000

Wish Werner Herzog would come by the studio and narrate our work in that soft, brutal, matter-of-fact German tone. Instead I just re-read the imaginary Herzog diary, below, to wallow in Herzog postmortemese.

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If we had this drainpipe in Vancouver, would the rain seem more tolerable?

LB — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:00:17 +0000

Probably not. Dresden drainpipe system, via badbanana.

I have no clue why they dance so madly.

LB — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:14:32 +0000

From the YouTube description:

Germany 1970. The German moderator discuss in the beginning how boring and lame the official looks are and that the fashion and color designers came up with the following outfits to make the game more interesting and colorful.

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Joo Youn Paek – Pillow Wig, Self-Sustainable Chair

LB — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:16:25 +0000

See all Joo Youn Paek’s inventions here. Yes, they’re functional: as art.

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