-
Welcome to things magazine, an occasional weblog (and once an occasional magazine) about objects, collections and discoveries. We also have an irregular tumblr.
back issues
- About things magazine
- things 05 (Winter 1996-97)
- things 06 (Summer 1997)
- things 07 (Winter 1997-98)
- things 08 (Summer 1998)
- things 09 (Winter 1998-1999)
- things 10 (Summer 1999)
- things 11 (Winter 1999-2000)
- things 12 (Summer 2000)
- things 13 (Winter 2000-2001)
- things 14 (Summer 2001)
- things 15 (Winter 2001-02)
- things 16 (Summer 2002)
- things 17/18 (Spring 2004)
- +things 19/20 (Winter 2010)
- things 19/20 *special offer*
architecture
- 0111
- A Daily Dose of Architecture
- A Rambling Room of My Own
- a10 magazine
- anArchitecture
- ArchDaily
- ArchEyes
- Archi/Maps
- Archimodels
- Archinect
- Architect Magazine
- Architects' Journal
- Architectural Association
- Architectural Design
- Architectural Review
- Architectural Videos
- Architecture Lab
- Architecture of Film
- Architizer
- Archizines
- ArchNewsNow
- ArchPaper
- Arcspace
- Arts and Architecture
- Arup Thoughts
- BLDG BLOG
- Cabin Porn
- City Comforts
- City of Sound
- CityMetric
- Continuity in Architecture
- Cosmopolitan Scum
- Crimson
- Curbed
- Derelict London
- Dezain
- Diffusive Architectures
- Domus
- dpr-Barcelona
- drawing architecture
- English Buildings
- Failed Architecture
- hawktraining
- Hello Beautiful!
- Icon
- Judit Bellostes
- Kosmograd
- Less Adjectives More Verbs
- London Architecture Diary
- Mammoth (resting)
- Markasaurus
- Metropolis
- Mika Savela
- Mimoa
- Moby Los Angeles Architecture Blog
- New Italian Blood
- Nomadicity
- Noticias Arquitectura
- Ouno Design
- Platforma Arquitectura
- Quintin Lake
- Reddit architecture
- Ruins of Great Britain
- Shed working
- Skyscraper City
- Skyscraper Page
- Socks Studio
- Strange Harvest
- The Funambulist
- The Pop-Up City
- The Spaces
- Top Architecture News
- Urban Ghosts Media
- Workhuman
collections and archives
- A Penguin a Week
- Agence Eureka
- Archive.org blog
- Archiveteam
- Codex 99
- Cyber Heritage
- Dark Roasted Blend
- Design Council Slide Collection
- Dull Tool Dim Bulb
- Found Objects
- Invisible Themepark
- Letterology
- Letters of Note
- Mapping London
- Material World
- Mid-Centuria
- Militant Esthetix
- Museum of Jurassic Technology
- Museum of Online Museums
- National Archives Blog
- oobject
- Peter Harrington Rare Books
- Public Collectors
- Recto/Verso
- Shelf Appeal
- Shorpy
- Tales of Things
- The Cartographer's Guild
- The Map Room
- Treasure Hunt
- Victorian London
- Vintage Computing and Gaming
- Wellcome Library
- World of Spectrum
design, art and photography
- 50 Watts
- Adaism
- All things considered
- an ambitious project collapsing
- Art F City
- ArtsJournal
- Artsy
- automatism
- Bear Alley
- Bellissimo
- booooooom
- but does it float
- Car Design News
- Cartype
- Concept Ships
- Conscientious Photography Magazine
- Cool Hunting
- Core77
- Coroflot
- Creative Review
- daily tonic
- Death House
- Design is Fine
- Design Talks
- designboom
- Designspiration
- Dezeen
- Disegno
- emma's designblogg
- Eye magazine
- ffffound (RIP)
- grain edit
- Graphic Exchange
- Hand Drawn Map Association
- HotWheels
- Hyperkit
- Iain Claridge
- Iconic Photos
- Idea Books
- Imprint
- Influx
- Inhabitat
- ISO50
- Linefeed
- Lost at E Minor
- Martin Klasch
- Mocoloco
- National Geographic Found
- New English Landscape
- Noisy Decent Graphics
- Notcot
- Nowness
- Picdit
- Places Journal
- Printeresting
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun
- Saatchi Online
- Scientific Illustration
- Shepelavy
- Sight Unseen
- Slanted
- Sophie Munns
- Storythings
- Subtraction
- The Art Journal
- The Big Picture
- The Calvert Journal
- The Cartoonist
- The Culture Engine
- The Fox is Black
- The Kid Should See This
- The Letter
- The Selby
- The Ward-O-Matic
- Theo Inglis
- this is A456
- This is Colossal
- Tim George
- Time LightBox
- We Made This
- xBlog
- Yanko Design
music
- Anti-Gravity Bunny
- Archived Music Magazines
- Bandcamp Daily
- blissblog
- Bradley's Almanac
- Chrome Waves
- Crying all the way to the chip shop
- Delicious Audio
- Dezeen Music Project
- Diskant
- Drowned in Sound
- Effects Bay
- Fluxblog
- Gig Posters
- Invisible Oranges
- Johnson's Rambler
- Largehearted Boy
- Music Machinery [ended]
- Novation
- Offset Guitars
- Operator One
- Owl in the Sun
- Pedals & Effects
- Pennyblackmusic
- Songs from the Shed
- Sredni Vashtar
- Synth Anatomy
- Synthtopia
- Teenage Engineering
- The Quietus
- This Recording
- Words for Music
people
- Adam Curtis
- Adam Greenfield
- Andrew Losowsky
- Caterina Fake
- Celeste Olalquiaga
- China Mieville
- Christopher Stocks
- Clive Thompson
- Daniel Eatock
- David Thompson
- Douglas Coupland
- Edward Tufte
- Ian Martin
- James Russell
- Jason Kottke
- Jean Snow
- Joe Moran
- Kate Bingaman-Burt
- Kazys Varnelis
- Kevin Kelly
- Marian Bantjes
- Peter Buchanan-Smith
- Peter Nencini
- Russell Davies
publications
- Aeon magazine
- Ambit
- Ampersand
- Amuseum Magazine
- Andrew Losowsky
- AnOther Reader
- Art Newspaper
- bookendless
- Books from Finland
- Byliner
- Cabinet Magazine
- Calvert Journal
- Fiell
- Gestalten
- Grafik
- Hopes and Fears
- Instapaper
- Issuu
- It's Nice That
- Lapham's Quarterly
- Linefeed
- London Review of Books
- magCulture
- Magforum
- McSweeneys
- Monocle
- n+1 magazine
- National Geographic
- Newspaper Club
- Phaidon Agenda
- Premiere Issues
- Princeton Architectural Press
- Print Fetish
- Sabotage Times
- Smoke: A London Peculiar
- SNOW magazine
- South East London Journal
- Stack
- The Awl
- The Brander
- The Millions
- The Modernist
- The Morning News
- The Peckham Peculiar
- The Rumpus
- Today's Guardian
- Turps Banana
- Unbound
- Viewport Magazine
- Wallpaper
- wallpaper tumblr
reading
weblogs
- 99% Invisible
- A bit late
- Aaronland
- Adventures in Suburban London
- Airminded
- Anti-Mega
- Anxious Machine [ended]
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Asbury & Asbury
- Ask Metafilter
- Atlas Obscura
- Badaude
- Ballardian
- Bandcamp Daily
- Ben Bashford
- Bifurcated Rivets
- Boing Boing
- Bowblog
- Caught by the River
- Cope
- Coudal
- Dangerous Minds
- David the Designer
- Diamond Geezer
- Disassociated [ended]
- Edible Geography
- Ephemeral New York
- Even Cleveland
- Everlasting Blort
- Feuilleton
- Greg.org
- haddock
- Heraclitean Fire
- Kickcan and Conkers
- Languagehat
- Linkmachinego
- Londres Calling
- Low Tech Magazine
- Making Light
- Metafilter
- Microkhan
- Mighty Girl
- Morning, Computer
- Mountain 7
- Museum of Ephemerata
- My ear trumpet
- Our God is Speed
- Project Moonbase
- Quipsologies [ended]
- rag-picking history
- Rotational
- Sippey
- Strange Attractor
- The Dabbler
- The New Enquiry
- Threat Quality Press
- Time Out London Blog
- Transpontine
- Unlikely Words
- Voices of East Anglia
- Waggish
Archives
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Streets in the sky
Britain’s best Carchitecture, off the back of the Carscapes exhibition. See also Carscapes: The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England, Carchitecture and the world of Motopia / LincVolt, electrifying classics. See also Zombie 222 / Formula 1 Pit Stops … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, design
Leave a comment
I’ve been doing fjords all my life
Straight out of the Magrathea Christmas catalogue: ‘Norway has one of the top five most incredible terrains in the known universe. Now you can create your own 3D-printed genuine gypsum heirloom mantelpiece display replica of your favorite part of this … Continue reading
Posted in art, technology
Leave a comment
Informed Taste
Martin Parr’s 1991 project ‘Signs of the Times‘ is shortly going on show at the Beetles and Huxley Gallery in London. The photographic essay, published as a book in 1992, was a caustic look at the English obsession with taste … Continue reading
Posted in photography
Leave a comment
Standing stones
We can only assume these old photographs taken by the Colonial Office and held at The National Archives are of the Bako National Park in Borneo. The rock formations shown in these undated images must surely have been lost to … Continue reading
Posted in collections and archives, history
Leave a comment
Mapping it out
Artist Richard Kolker works with digital sources for many of his projects, re-rendering places and scenes to create a different perspective on the familiar. His Streetview series tracks down iconic photographic and artistic locations and ‘snaps’ them using Google Streetview … Continue reading
Posted in art, cartography
Leave a comment
Cyborgs
How many people actually claim to be cyborgs? The answer is surprisingly few. A decade ago, the web was much entertained by the activities of Kevin Warwick, instigator of Project Cyborg and obsessed with the interface between consciousness and data … Continue reading
Posted in technology
Leave a comment
Not a patch on this
Denim animation, a video for Throne, created by Nicos Livesey (and others), linked via Dezeen.
Posted in music
Leave a comment
On the level
Random selection for the weekend. The Effects Database. Related, an online book (with sound samples) about 100 Boss pedals / the Golden Age of Audio / Venice backstage, interesting look at how the city functions in terms of services, erosion, … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, ephemera
Leave a comment
Unimaginary islands
La Maddalena is the story of architecture intersecting with politics and corruption and coming off worst. “The former Arsenal, partly planned by Stefano Boeri on the island of La Maddalena for the G8 in 2009, is one of the darkest … Continue reading
Posted in architecture
Leave a comment
There she blew
One of the aims of the explorers was to discover islands with fur-bearing seals, and these were found, inter alia in South Georgia, which had been re-discovered by Cook in 1755. Here, in 1902, were found two large cauldrons for … Continue reading
Posted in history
Leave a comment
High and dry
Travel costs from central London. The darker the red, the pricier the (train) journey. A project by Chris Heathcote / happy to find a copy of this gem the other day; Seventies light entertainment given the Meades treatment / recommended … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, design
Leave a comment
Work and turn
A colossal jumble of things today. Animated architecture, a series of entertaining gifs that reveal possibilities that quite probably already existed in the architects’ own minds / a post about Project U.F.O / A Long Time Ago in a China … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, art
Leave a comment