What’s the worst mistake you can do as a graphic designer? A typo on the cover? Wrong dates on the poster? Architecture obviously is a much more complex field, and the range of errors involved reaches completely different dimensions. Watch All Fall Down, a fascinating 30 minutes documentary about how a calculation mistake by an engineer for the Citigroup skyscraper was discovered by a student, just shortly before the whole building (and, in theory, among with it several other ins Manhattan) could have collapsed during hurricane season. Uff, feels nice to work in InDesign.
👀 Watch All Fall Down
👂 Listen to Structural Integrity

What’s the thing with 🪑chairs? Do we really need another one? It’s basic design apparently hasn’t change much since Egyptian times. Pictured above is a replica of a chair that belonged to Queen Hetepheres who lived around 2400 B.C. However, since the industrial revolution, hundreds and thousands of designers, engineers, architects etc. have made attempts to come up with new chairs and the recent history of sitting furniture is as much a history of design as it is a history of production. The Vitra design museum in Basel has released the 90 minutes film Chair Times about key pieces of their chair collection. No suspense here, but it bares some interesting details and is definitely worth watching. Happy weekend everyone.
👀 Watch Chair Times here