Football scarves normally show your allegiance for your team, but the half and half scarf is more like a tourist souvenir. “Real” football fans hate them, but we decided to have some fun with the concept and commemorate other conflicts.
The University of Reading is providing fourteen scholarships for refugees. From a tweet by the uni twitter account:
We’ve had feedback over the last week that some people are unhappy with our plan to offer up to 14 scholarships to refugees living in the local area. To these people, we would like to say: Tough. Jog on.
I’m proud of my alma mater ??
Montreal’s STM is updating their signage (more info), with a focus on wayfinding and legibility. They’re shifting the typography from Univers 57 to Transit, as well as implementing a custom monospace and pictogram fonts.
The latest novel use to which like is being put is as an infix. Infixes are a pretty small set in English, so a new one is a genuine surprise, linguistically. In some ways it is unlikeprecedented.
Never grow up ?
The Daughter as Detective. A bibliophile tries to understand her father through his favorite Swedish mystery books.
I don’t know why it’s so frustrating that my dad refuses to say or even think about why he likes the things he does, when his preoccupations run so deep and are so consistent.
Mama duck and baby in the pond at Jarry Park
Design Canada
Design Canada is a documentary film celebrating the golden era of Canadian design. View the trailer.
I attended the Montreal screening of the film last week and definitely learned a few things. My design history knowledge skews heavily towards Britain and Europe, so it was pretty awesome to see Canadian efforts in the spotlight. I grew up during the period when much of this work was being scrapped in favour of the new, so I never really appreciated some of the systems that we had in place.
The film is showing around the country over the next month, including several more screenings at Cinema du Parc in Montreal. It will be released digitally in the fall.
Thanks to the film’s director, Greg Durrell, for providing me with the film’s title card for this post.
Ana Sora from Pilot Coffee Roasters. It has a strawberry thing going on ☕️
Station Eleven ?
Station Eleven by Emily Mandel.
I really enjoyed this book. Almost couldn’t set it down. Would definitely recommend picking up a copy.
Disable telemetry reporting in Visual Studio Code. If you’d prefer that your code editor didn’t phone home.
Lots of Fun With Finnegan’s Wake
Peter O’Brien is currently illustrating the 628 pages of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Here’s a page from an article in the Globe and Mail:
Joyce used grist for Finnegans Wake from wherever he found it: the Bible, drinking songs, the morning paper. I likewise use images from various sources. These two trees are side-by-side at the cottage of a friend, and I thought they would be appropriate on a page where Joyce invokes Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and his work in the growing fields of sociology and ethnology.
Visit Peter’s site for more sample pages and links to other articles about the project, Lots of Fun With Finnegan’s Wake. He hopes to be finished by 2022.