Author: Marcus Trimble

The Architects &#8212 the best architecture radio show on the planet &#8212 is having a fund raising drive live tonight. RRR radio is an independent community radio station that depends on listener subscriptions for it’s survival, so if you listen to the show, you can call between 7pm – 8pm (Melbourne time) and donate to…

Dear Lulu &#8212 A fantastic resource for testing the print quality of print -on-demand services. “Exercises in colour profile (Adobe RGB/sRGB/CMYK/Greyscale), halftoning, point size, line, geometry, skin tone, colour texture, cropping and print finishing provide useful data for other designers and self-publishers to judge the possibilities and quality of online print-on-demand — specifically Lulu.com, with…

Long an issue in Australia, water shortages are now a global concern. “Untrammelled industrialisation, particularly in poor countries, is contaminating rivers and aquifers. America’s generous subsidies for biofuel have increased the harvest of water-intensive crops that are now used for energy as well as food. And heavy subsidies for water in most parts of the…

Typography school looks like fun.

An online searchable database of scanned Australian newspapers prior to 1940. Produced by the Australian National Library, this is quite good indeed. The content is fairly limited at the moment, but I guess it will grow over time. Via Twitter

Jet Blue’s food court at JFK airport. Would you believe that this is inside Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal?