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I’ve started reading The 15 Minute City, by Natalie Whittle.
From designing interfaces to designing systems (on The history of the web)
A history of Design Systems by Jay Hoffman taking in (amongst other milestones) the notion of Front-end Style Guides, followed by the arrival of Bootstrap, then Brad Frost’s Atomic Design, culminating in the dawn of the Design System movement with Jina Anne’s Clarity Conference.
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The second Phillp K Dick I’ve read this year is his alternative-history sci-fi classic.
In this book, Dick protrays an alternate reality where the Axis powers have won the second world war and America is under the rule of Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany.
Interestingly, many of the characters use the ancient Chinese text the I Ching for guidance, and there’s also a clever “book within a book” subplot in which the novel The Grasshopper Lies Heavy depicts an alternate history in which the Allied forces prevailed.
Having now read a couple of Philip K. Dick books this year, I’m arriving at the conclusion that while I don’t love his writing style, this is counterbalanced by his creativity and the interesting ideas which stay with you long afterwards.
Everybody in the place
Enjoyed this acid house history lesson from Jeremy Deller – especially some of the footage from the early Manchester scene which I hadn’t seen before.
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