| General | Travelling by train across Europe, Japan, Meteorology, Books, Playing "Godzilla" with my daughters, Contemporary Art, Satellites, New York City, Libraries, Reading on the bus, Cycling in Summer, utopian urban residential + cultural institutions, Typography, New Zealand, Mingei, faded Modernism, MPCs, Colour, the ‘Local’, Music, Science for Kids, Brutalism | | Music | Stones Throw, Dreck, Häpna, Morr, Ghostly International, Kranky, Rune Grammofon, Wackies, City Centre Offices, Geographic, Studio One, Ghost Box, Soul Jazz, Staubgold, Tomlab, Leaf, Output, Raster Noton, ~scape, Skam | | Movies | Documentary, Japanese, Hong Kong, US 70s Conspiracy, Industrial/Educational | | Television | Documentaries, the News, the Weather | | Books | "Design as Art" Bruno Munari (Pelican, 1971); "Species of Spaces and Other Pieces" Georges Perec (Penguin, 1998); "The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentred Society" Lucy R. Lippard (New Press, 1998); "Interaction of Colour" Josef Albers (Yale University Press, 1975); "Remarks on Colour" Ludwig Wittgenstein (University of California Press, 1978); "The Little Red Balloon" Iela and Enzo Mari (1967, English edition out of print, Japanese edition: Holp Shuppan, Tokyo, 2000); "How To Start Your Own Country" Erwin S. Strauss (Breakout Productions, 1984); "The Art of Hunger/The Red Notebook" Paul Auster (Faber and Faber, 1998); "Making the City Observable" Richard Saul Wurman (Design Quarterly 80, Walker Art Center/MIT Press, 1971); "Design in Miniature" David Gentleman (Studio Vista, 1972); "Cabinet" magazine (Quarterly magazine of art and culture, Brooklyn, New York) | | Heroes | Munari, Mari + Yanagi |
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