Notes
A journal on the work of creativity, covering the places, the things we need and use, and the services that make them work.
ThingsLess, but better.
Dieter Rams
ThingsThe shape of a century of sound.
Leo Fender
ThingsThe chair that learned to bend.
Charles & Ray Eames
ThingsThe lamp that holds its breath.
George Carwardine
ThingsThe little machine that starts the day.
Alfonso Bialetti
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
ThingsLight you can fold flat.
Isamu Noguchi
ThingsThe camera that disappears.
Leica
ThingsThe machine that unlocked the mind.
Johannes Gutenberg
ThingsA blind teenager invented reading by touch.
Louis Braille
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ThingsThe cold chain that keeps us alive.
Many hands, 19th–20th century
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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
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ThingsThe most efficient machine ever built.
Many hands, 19th century
ThingsElectricity, straight out of sunlight.
Bell Labs, 1954
ThingsGlass that behaves like it's alive.
Dale Chihuly
ThingsA 2,000-year-old computer from the sea.
Ancient Greek makers
ThingsOne map, one argument about the truth.
Massimo Vignelli
ThingsThe costumes that built a nation.
Ruth E. Carter
ThingsThe sculptor who shows every seam.
Tom Sachs
ThingsThe man who made the machine disappear.
Jonny Ive
ThingsThe architect who drew the future onto your feet.
Tinker Hatfield
ThingsThe three percent that moved an industry.
Virgil Abloh
ThingsA notebook that pushes back.
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