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vidyagameher: zestuart: Bike Rescue Kit, containing tyre levers, two CO2 canisters, chain tool, and a Leatherman Mako Ti bike tool. Not pictured are self-adhesive tube patches. Love a good cycling edc (I need a maxpedition for my cycling bags come spring/summer
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boingboing: “VW Camper Van: A Biography,” by Mike Harding
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How to Get Past Customs Without Giving Up Your Digital Privacy | WIRED
How to Get Past Customs Without Giving Up Your Digital Privacy | WIRED In fact, US Customs and Border Protection has long considered US borders and airports a kind of loophole in the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections, one that allows them wide latitude to detain travelers and search their devices. For years, they’ve used that opportunity…
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Climate change has already guaranteed that the world will experience a rise in sea level of several feet; there won’t be a “new,” static coastline for centuries to come. This means that cities and towns on the shoreline are guaranteed an increase in flooding vulnerability. Some of the damage this will cause is inevitable. Many…
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azspot: R.E.M. – E-Bow The Letter (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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AGDA – What is Graphic Design?
AGDA – What is Graphic Design? electrikmuse: Good Definition: Graphic Design is an interdisciplinary, problem-solving activity which combines visual sensitivity with skill and knowledge in areas of communications, technology and business. Graphic design practitioners specialise in the structuring and organizing of visual information to aid communication and orientation(1). The graphic design process is a problem…
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The main advantage of the world’s fair situation is that there is no need, in fact, the opposite is really required, to develop any given subject in depth; it is by its very nature more superficial, more impressionistic, more playful. Peter Chermayeff, C7A Inc. Designers of the US Pavilion at Expo 67 (via man-and-his-world)
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The ultimate object of design is form Christopher Alexander, 1964 (via purestform)
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Why do passports and banknotes have to be like this – clumsy montages of national symbols in an 18th-century style? Perhaps it’s because they’re all mostly designed and printed by the same firm, DeLaRue of Basingstoke, purveyor of high-security printed matter since 1821. They do exceedingly fine ridge intaglio printing, exquisite watermarks and multicoloured UV…
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elmer season: Curious about…Ancient Energy as a Design Tool.
elmer season: Curious about…Ancient Energy as a Design Tool. curiositychronicles: Songlines, also called Dreaming tracks by Indigenous Australians within the indigenous belief system, are paths across the land (or, sometimes the sky) which mark the route followed by localised ‘creator-beings’ during the Dreaming. The paths of the songlines are…