While going through some old boxes looking for the photos from yesterday’s post of vintage HMN ads, I came across this grouping of photos of an old junkyard. I couldn’t find mention of it anywhere in the August 1978 issue that yesterday’s photos came from, thus I wasn’t able to find any information on exactly […]
Perhaps Richard Langworth’s tendency toward purple prose in this profile of Brooks Stevens in SIA #71, October 1982, is appropriate, given the picture he paints of the legendary designer: cordial, well-mannered, even elegant. The profile is no biography or compendium of Stevens’s designs (for that, turn to Glenn Adamson’s book, “Industrial Strength Design“), rather a […]
Every now and then, I think I’d like to get a tattoo. Sure, everybody and their grandmother has one nowadays, so they don’t carry the sailor-on-shore-leave stigma they used to, but a tattoo is more than a social statement. It’s an expression of commitment to whatever that tattoo stands for. While they look good on […]