(Use the controls to navigate through the panorama) The Simonside Hills loom over the upper Coquet valley looking north. The magical and haunted Whitton Dene is in the middleground. The path off to the left is to the main carved rock outcrop. The hillfort is one of the most accessible sites of prehistoric rock carving…
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Seaton Delaval – stable door
Another in the series “doors, windows, thresholds” – [Link]
Seaton Delaval – after the fire
automotive connoisseurship
Palo Alto Concours d’Elegance – . Taking a tour with Jon Summers. What are the values and principles that govern the collection of cars? Just what are the values applied to these extraordinary artifacts? Age, elegance, finish, rarity, historical significance, market value … These are questions of automotive connoisseurship.
d.school 2.0
This evening – the d.school celebrates where it’s at and looks forward to new and wider initiatives – spreading the goodness.
home-made Europe: the DIY geniuses shaking up design
Justin McGuirk in the Guardian today [Link] highlights a new book [Link] on challenges to industrial design: The objects we buy are supposed to tell us something about who we are. But they don’t tell us half as much as the objects we make, as even a quick flick through Home-Made Europe: Contemporary Folk Artifacts…
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