graphic design

BRAIN FOOD

MUSIC
Beyoncé, Black Mamahood & Affirmation
Bette Midler live in Cleveland 1976
My Brightest Diamond | This is My Hand

WORDS
Rebecca Solnit on Virginia Woolf’s darkness
AWP: (might as well) give the books away
We know what works in teaching composition

WHAT DO WE KNOW
Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse
The best kitchen gadget of the 1600s was a dog
How much diggity

ART | DESIGN
24 creative die cut business cards
Jade Beall photography (NSFW — beautiful naked mommas)
W.E.B. Du Bois hand-drawn infographics 

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GET SMARTER

LOOK
Amazing and gorgeous data visualizations of the 19th century
The Green Book, a black motorist’s guide for surviving and thriving on road trips across America during the first half of the 20th century

WATCH
Trophy Homes on Martha’s Vineyard
Animated short: The Selkie Bride
The Hitch-hiker, the first film noir by a woman director (Ida Lupino)
Get Smart, full episodes online

READ
Leopoldine Core in W
Hot Sex and Young Girls in The New York Review of Books
One hundred first person essays from the London Review of Books, by location

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Monday Whoa

Short mailing today. Some Mondays are like holding your breath and diving into the chaos. Today is such a day.  —LJ

UNIQUE NEW YORK
The hidden entrance in the Astor Place subway station and the New York City Shakespeare riots of 1849
Peg Leg Pete and the Haunting of St. Mark’s Cathedral
The New York City Transit Authority Graphical Standards Manual, 1970

DESIGN
Library of Vintage Fruit Crate Labels
Graphic designer dad illustrates offspring’s daily sandwiches
BLANKA Posters

LITERATURE HELPS ME BREATHE
The United States of Literature
Kids who die, by Langston Hughes

Image credit: Langston Hughes, 1940, Carl Van Vecten
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