Visual Scrap #19
At a time when the past is more interesting than the future.
Blasts From The Past
🦖 Jurassic Park Computers in Excruciating Detail. Thankful for people like Fabien Sanglard who still make the internet fun. He researched every computer and piece of software in the movie – screenshotted and annotated for your enjoyment. A fun time machine. RIP Sam Neill.
📁 I don't know why I thought these were only vintage, but Bisley storage is very much alive and available in 14 colors. I've been real partial to dark green lately. Wall of these in my dream studio.
📐 Looks like someone "discovered" Cooking for Engineers. But I agree that since the mid aughts, why has no one taken this up? Cookbooks still look the same. I might make it a project to see what engineering + design could do for the uptake.
Thoughts About the Future
The Future is All Yores – "It’s one of life’s great ironies that what we call antiques are actually far more modern in the truest sense than anything now knocked up with such a paucity of care and imagination. If only designers looked to the interiors movers and Shakers of yesteryear, says Michael Diaz-Griffith, they might actually begin to dream big."
How to design something 'FUTURISTIC' – "And why we don't. 'Space Age' fashion, culture, technology and politics." Warning: Paywalled and unfortunately Subsmack makes you download their app to "unlock your free article." Maybe you already have the app or the patience.
Why don't more artists have merch? Although I think we can definitely stop making tote bags. Is it just me?
A theory of invention; or why you're an inventor too. "So my theory of invention is that anyone can do this: taking things that already exist — whether it is a time zone, a legal technicality, or a set of hiking trails — and creating a new conceptual framing that makes the underlying structure more accessible to others and creates new value."
Bit of Both
🕳️ Stupid IG wouldn't let me embed today, but if you follow the link it's one of my favorite art directed "portraits" I've seen in a while. Something feels futuristic about it. Maybe it's the easy back and forth conversation between digital and analogue used to get to the final product. Maybe it's the young faces. Ben Denzer creates illustrations by printing out objects and reassembling them as small paper models. He taught a class, and this is their class portrait.
