Design research
history and origins of design features - typography, styles, posters, sign painting etc.
Design research
People usually assume that we don’t make interesting, ornate buildings anymore because it got too expensive to pay a bunch of artisans to carve designs into stone and wood.6 But the researcher Samuel Hughes argues that the supply-side story doesn’t hold up: many of the architectural flourishes that look like they have to be done by hand can, in... See more
Adam Mastroianni • The Decline of Deviance
“For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.
Julian de Medeiros • You should go for a walk
One of things that’s so exciting about ghost signs is that they recall a time of professional artisans deeply interwoven with everyday culture and society. Many values of the early years of the internet, including openness, creativity, and connection, are deeply appealing now.
Denys Kulyk • 💾 Why we’re nostalgic for the early web
Why are hand-painted signs coming back? Didn’t society work so hard to make all of these things much easier. Digital is better, digital is future. But what are we doing now, watching this person measure out the kerning of each letter for this trendy cafe sign? Or on the side of that old refurbished Volkswagen van.
It seems like we’ve all become so
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