a project by part of a bigger plan for the rijksmuseum last year, i must have missed this one at the time…
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fish, bread and wine
this is great: apparently michelangelo had a servant who (like most people at the time) was illiterate… so he wrote this shopping list for her (dated 1518) complete with a menu of small pictograms to help with getting the daily groceries…
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it’s been a mad year, full of highs and some lows… and tomorrow it starts all over again
i wish everyone more highs than lows in 2014 and hope that we get to see each other (again?) next year, who knows we could even make something together… anyway have fun for now x
a good book
…i love books. Yet I’ve never bought one just to own it. What fascinates me is their utility value: books can teach us things. It’s not only the writer that speaks to us. If we listen more closely, we can hear the voice of the designer or eavesdrop on the concert of materials. Books appeal not only to our eyes and ears: some we fall in love with the moment we take them in our hands. Many books also communicate non-verbally – they can flirt and seduce…
a beautiful german archive site that documents books (via my top tipper this year mister ‘uwe’ thanks for all the great links mate)
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a best of 2013 list (kind of): the most photographed places on earth according to flickr; most predictably western in its orientation of course, this collection