Jessica talks about her recent trip to the Ephemera Society of America’s latest Ephemera Fair, where
every time we went to a different booth, that dealer had organized their material differently.…So you can have the Dewey Decimal System you can have Google search engines, but at the end of the day a good Scholars going to find something between these different categories.Also mentioned this week:
- Ralph Nader’s Open Letter to ground Boeing 737
- Ralph Nader, Unleashed Graphic Designers: Art Over Function
- Steven Heller, Design Observer, Ralph Nader, Design Critic
- Jessica Helfand, Eye, Me, the Undersigned,
- Michael, George Kennan and the Cold War Between Form and Content (2004)
- George Kennan’s Long Telegram
- Indictment in college admissions scandal
- Surrey Nano Systems, Vanta Black
- Mark Wilson, Fast Company, Scientists have discovered a shape that blocks all sound–even your co-workers
- Sally Potter, The Party on Amazon Prime; trailer
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