Author: Marcus Trimble

Beijing’s taxi’s each of which is fitted with recording equipment are potential distributed, mobile surveillance devices.

Lead pencil typography: “The range of information they need to convey (manufacturer, product name, grading and classification, place of origin) calls for a self-contained system of semantic distinctions, and the unforgiving process by which tiny letters must be hot stamped into soft pine demands durable letterforms of considerable ingenuity.”

Undulating-Roof-Melting-Into-Column is this decade’s Floor-Becomes-Wall-Becomes-Roof.

Michiel van Raaij visits Peter Zumthor’s Kolumba Museum in Cologne.

Boing Boing TV presents a short film looking at the shantytowns in Shibuya. “I visited and small shantytown in Shibuya I had seen from the train the day before, tucked away in a kids playground. My translator and myself introduced ourselves to a friendly group of people and negotiated permission to pry into their lives…