For more background information on Ray Komai: Design for America (now available at Amazon), listen to this fascinating 2008 interview with his sister-in-law, Kay Komai. In it she talks about growing up in California through the war years, and she describes… Read More ›
In my book Six Nine, Two Ten, I mention Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 visit to the island of Tonga in the South Pacific to see her friend, Queen Sālote Tupou III. Queen Salote typified the large stature of Tongans (and… Read More ›
Miriam Hoskyns, who assisted so much with The Wiring Diagram, sent me the following video of her husband being interviewed on BBC4’s “Face The Press” in 1984. The presenter is Anthony Howard, and with him are Hugo Young of The Guardian and Michael Elliot… Read More ›
I ran across this funny bit of graphic design today while looking through Spotify for “Fakarouni” by the great Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. (Both her name and the titles of her songs have various spellings in English.) Above are the cover images… Read More ›
I’ve been doing some research for a project and received two autobiographies in the mail last week. God, they’re unreadable. Both men worked with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and saw the revolution of the UK economy up close during the… Read More ›
The more I sit at the computer to communicate, the worse my handwriting becomes. I’m buying extra birthday cards now, just in case my signature in one is so bad I can’t bear to send it. And the mortality rate on… Read More ›
Here’s a great video about how Facebook generates fake “Likes” for a price, and another video about the different advertising structures on Facebook and YouTube. Part of me would love to just see what one of these places looks like…. Read More ›
Judging from this article, I’m a latecomer to the videos of Tim Rowett of Grand Illusions toy shop, but better late than never! The faulty calculator reminds me of an early cell phone I had, which I discovered could not accurately… Read More ›
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