Notes
A journal on the work of creativity, covering the places, the things we need and use, and the services that make them work.
ThingsThe three percent that moved an industry.
Virgil Abloh
ThingsFreedom you can park anywhere.
Corradino D'Ascanio
ThingsThe car that landed like a spaceship.
Flaminio Bertoni & André Lefèbvre
ThingsThe most beautiful thing that ever flew.
BAC & Aérospatiale
ThingsThe chair that learned to bend.
Charles & Ray Eames
ThingsLess, but better.
Dieter Rams
ThingsThe camera that disappears.
Leica
ThingsLight you can fold flat.
Isamu Noguchi
ThingsThe little machine that starts the day.
Alfonso Bialetti
ThingsThe lamp that holds its breath.
George Carwardine
ThingsThe shape of a century of sound.
Leo Fender
Etc.The book he wrote in nine days.
Viktor Frankl
Etc.The book that started a movement.
Rachel Carson
Etc.Advice that never gets old.
Rainer Maria Rilke
.jpg)
Etc.The story of us, told as a story.
Yuval Noah Harari
Etc.One girl, one voice, an entire war.
Anne Frank
Etc.A children's book for adults.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
.jpg)
ThingsThe accident that saved a hundred million lives.
Alexander Fleming
ThingsThe plain steel box that shrank the world.
Malcom McLean
ThingsThe country doctor who ended a killer.
Edward Jenner
ThingsThe tiny switch that runs everything.
John Bardeen & Walter Brattain
ThingsHe invented the web, then gave it away.
Tim Berners-Lee
.jpg)
ThingsThe most efficient machine ever built.
Many hands, 19th century
ThingsElectricity, straight out of sunlight.
Bell Labs, 1954
.jpg)
ThingsThe cold chain that keeps us alive.
Many hands, 19th–20th century
PlacesThe building that shouldn't have worked.
Jørn Utzon
PlacesThe cathedral that has taken 140 years.
Antoni Gaudí
PlacesThe school that redesigned the modern world.
Walter Gropius / Bauhaus
PlacesGiant drawings only the sky can read.
The Nazca people
PlacesThe first artists, seventeen thousand years ago.
Palaeolithic painters
ThingsGlass that behaves like it's alive.
Dale Chihuly
ThingsA 2,000-year-old computer from the sea.
Ancient Greek makers
Etc.Two minds, one head.
Daniel Kahneman
Etc.A love letter to the universe.
Carl Sagan
Etc.A grammar for humane places.
Christopher Alexander
Etc.What is quality?
Robert M. Pirsig
PlacesAn army of clay, guarding a dead emperor.
Qin dynasty artisans
PlacesThe building that saved a city.
Frank Gehry
ThingsThe machine that unlocked the mind.
Johannes Gutenberg
ThingsA blind teenager invented reading by touch.
Louis Braille
PlacesA house built on top of a waterfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright