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January 9, 2007 Archives

podcast for designers and trainspotters alike

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Wodcast.org is a "podcast project about the future of design." In the first installment from The Lighthouse in Glasgow, Scotland, interviewer Neil McGuire has cornered Peter Saville for 18 minutes of grandiose statements about branding, marketing, adidas, Factory Records and his concerns about "people in their mid-life who are still fascinated by typefaces and layout." Essential.

johnny's gem of the day

"you never need to turn around because there will always be another one coming."

Manor in the jungle

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Giraffe Manor is located about 15 miles outside of Nairobi and sits on 140 acres of it's own parkland on the lovely continent of Africa. What's best about this english style manor built in 1932, is that giraffes and other wild animals roam the grounds freely. Almost a hotel/petting zoo, giraffes will join you for breakfast and once satiated will move on to bask in the African sun and bat their huge eyelashes at those big African flies. A small hotel, only 5 rooms, the human to giraffe ratio is about 2 to 1.

cabin in the woods

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The worlds best ever cabin in the woods by architetcts Saunders/Wilhelmsen. Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen, architects from the west coast of Norway. The picture above is from one of the cabins the duo made in one of the fjords of Norway. Learn more about the two of them.
www.saunders.no and www.tommie-wilhelmsen.no