Round-up Friday. Giant Earth, via DRB / Subtopia on floating prisons / A Very Weird and Blocky Future, a life told through consoles, at tmn. See also this fine Letter from Paris / Synaesthete looks fun / a456, a tumblelog / Joe Goodness / where to go to get your ephemera fix.

Sometimes we think there are more design and visual culture blogs than there is design and visual culture. A vast feedback loop, driven by regular trawls through server logs / the art of Chris Flanagan / Digital Library Projects at the University of Texas, including the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection.

Polaroid's Zink is one stop closer to the inevitable; a reproduction of the original Land Camera with a digital sensor and built in printer. We give it 18 months.

Will the Real Ernst Bettler Please Stand Up?, Design Observer on hoaxes, sources, and designers' aspirations for their work to have a profound social impact / not really related. Dated with a hint of megalomania: Tony Blair's stationery decoded. posted by things at 21:41 / 0 comments