Visual Scrap #18

Lego Roundup

In November Lego is launching a Sagrada Família set ($800 😧) as part of their architecture series. And that's cool, but the photography of the interior of the thing is what I think is extra cool. And while I was grabbing the link, ahem browsing, I saw these small, inexpensive Recreate sets. They include 25 random pieces and prompt cards. They are both a) a genius way to sell extra pieces, and b) a great example of boundaries and limitations as part of the fun. Wrote about that here.

What is a Dickover?

Promise this is SFW. Illustration at the link. Also promise you already know what this is.

...I was collecting too many of them. But this one from Tom’s Hardware I actually enjoyed, because their own dickover got dicked over by one of their own fucking ads in a JavaScript Z-axis slapfight.

Sometimes when I land on a site like that I just decide that information was not meant for me. closes tab

In Color News

Storied Colors is a handy, well-designed reference with multiple ways to search. He is transparent about AI use in the writing, and he has an actual methodology and lists citations and corrections. Always double check before you make a grand pronouncement in a meeting or anything like that. But for everyday research and inspiration, it's great.

Dammit this Karel Martens calendar is one of those ideas that is so great because it is so simple. Take multiple colored sheets, use one die, rotate the die each time. "A prototype of this design was created by Karel Martens in 1968, but not produced in a larger edition until now." Which begs the question:

What project did you put in a drawer that should come out immediately?

Lastly, this Frigidaire Decorator Color Selector from 1978.

Don't Bring a Website

For a while, the designer Stefan Sagmeister was doing portfolio reviews on IG. It seemed to get a little out of hand, and he stopped. He just announced that he'll begin again, only this time in person. What struck me is this note: "Bring a portfolio either as a PDF or physical pieces. Don't bring a website." You might say he's an old guy. Maybe he has unreliable internet. But if you've ever sat down with a person and gone through their website, all I can say is that experience sucks. And it has nothing to do with the design of the site itself. A website does not allow you to control the order of things. And the order you present something is as important as anything else. It's fine to use your portfolio site like an archive. But that's too much to go through in any kind of review. Edit. Arrange.