Author: Marcus Trimble

Contortionist Geography. A slideshow of US electorates gerrymandered into exotic shapes. Similarly, Belgian enclaves, which you can hear about here.

As good an indication as any &#8212 A comparison of the robot.txt file for the whitehouse.gov from yesterday to today.

Nicolai Ouroussoff reviews Jean Nouvel’s Copenhagen Concert Hall in the NYT. At this stage the project does not appear to include air hostesses, bald heads or breast milk.

Charles Holland on perfume: “Perfume is perhaps the most perfect piece of design and the most perfect product of capitalism. It is Marx’s commodity fetish and Freud’s sexual fetish combined, an almost magical product of mythical sexual properties. It creates value out of almost nothing but thin air. … This is why perfume adverts are…

An absurd Ikea mini site where you can furnish the Oval Office with Ikea furniture. Not surprisingly, it becomes clear very quickly that Ikea is not optimised for ellipsoid rooms.

The Book Cover Archive &#8212 extremely well designed. Sort by Author, Title, Designer etc.