A logotype that is hard to forget • DC’s most underrated exhibition design • Grocery stores and generosity • How to eat in Chicago • Brian Wilson and Harry Nilsson • Air shows are the worst

One of the great logos of the past 100 years and a

Lamp-posts and charm destruction • The Goodfellas of Ice Skating movies • The R&B-ification of Country music • Fuzzy slipper piano performance • Wasp sting triage • Sardine Museum

Aggressive charm destruction. First, it was the switch to white light LEDs

Snake in a Can • Drawing a Turtle • Nick Drake and Watercolor music • Creative cooking and kids • Butterflies and landscapes

Nick Drake’s underreported influences. Drake only made three records, but they

Adidas Modifications • Zebra painting • Perfect harmony • Bitter Italian soda

Sneaker modifications. There is a particular make and brand of sneaker that

Your pinky toes • Country Western roosters • Billion dollar bouncy house industry • Cynical clothing • Historians breaking character • That’s All Folks

The reality is, almost no one uses their pinky toes as nature

Beautiful fly swatters • Elliptical writing and children’s literature • Swim at your own risk, obviously • 1970s typography • Estonian music and Lou Reed at age 22

Chris van Allsburg and elliptical writing. Rarely done with children’s literature

Isle of Man and postage stamps • Easiest way to save $600 a year • Thinking beyond language • How to not fall off a mountain • Something in the Way She Moves

Nicely designed stamps for the Isle of Man. Manx Folk Traditions, by

Phonoaesthetics & Joanna Newsom • Design in the Darkest Corners

Yes, I’d like to redesign the walkway under the bridge. This

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Weird blues, weird reggae, Welsh driving music, Chinese indie rock, Zimbabwe dry

Wound Care Innovation • Thoughts on Nick Drake’s Network • Trail Run System Failure • Billboards and Visual Decay • Neutral Milk Hotel

The tapestry of musicians working with Britain’s most introverted folk musician,

Tom Waits and Doritos • Javanese Soul sounds • Falconry in Unexpected Places • Every Genre in the World • A Moral Argument for Originality

Indonesian rhythms. Breezing through the sunny port city of Surabaya in a