The Cricket Trailer at work looking space-age and efficient while inventor Garrett Finney plays the Ukulele. Photo by David Bates.
I’d been chattering for a week about spending the summer in a trailer dropped on the smallest patch of grass and wildflower somewhere Upstate when I came across the Cricket Trailer over at Men and Women of Industry. (If you’re not fantasizing about camping now, you will be once you’ve seen their childhood snaps.) The lightweight, angular trailers were designed by Garrett Finney, an architect who came to camper design by way of NASA, where he worked on the International Space Station’s “Habitation Module” (astronaut-speak for “home”).
Handwriting
Notes and a fish from the Clatsop, Oregon, field journal of Merriweather Lewis, February 24, 1806. Image from Brain Pickings.
1. Cursive is dead: “That cursive-challenged class included Alex Heck, 22, who said she barely remembered how to read or write cursive. Ms. Heck and a cousin leafed through their grandmother’s journal shortly after she died, but could barely read her cursive handwriting.” The New York Times.
2. Handwriting shrinks as desperation builds: “To Whom It May Concern,” from Assorted Street Posters, Outsiders, UbuWeb. Collected in New York from 1985 to the present.
3. Halfway between font and handwriting: hand-painted signs just won’t die. “Sign painters,” Imprint.
4. Just a little ink on one piece of paper and a transaction for the ages: The Sale of Manhattan, Letters of Note.
5. Five Voyeuristic, Cross-disciplinary Peeks into Great Creators’ Notebooks, Brain Pickings. (via a Design*Sponge tweet.)
6. Take Care of Your Little Notebooks, New York Review of Books Blog