Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present. Dear Photograph. 6.24

"Back in the early 1980s, America started building a highway system for cyclists—a grand national grid of bike paths. The first two stretches of the U.S. Bicycle Route System were going to run from Maine to Florida and from Virginia to Oregon. But only small parts of those routes were ever made official and the idea lost steam. Why build infrastructure for a prehistoric mode of transportation like the bicycle? Who's going to need that in the 21st century?" America revives its highway system for cyclists. Via Curiosity Counts. 6.22

Everything is a Remix, Part 3. 6.21

Polaroid’s SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible. Great article about Polaroid co-founder Edwin Land and the most wildly ambitious consumer-electronics device of its era. 6.16

"It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me…" Steven Heller has made his book Paul Rand: A Designer's Words available to everyone as a pdf. 6.15

Codex, the Journal of Typography. A lovely new quarterly print magazine from John Boardley of the awesome ILT and the equally inspiring WLT. 6.13

World Wildlife Fund logo sketches, for E who is desperate for a panda logo of her own. 6.8

London Underground inspired prints based on tube line colouring, via Applied Works. 6.7

Great photoset of typewriter logos and decals, via CP. 6.6

A short film from 1966, predicting what the home computer would be like by the end of the 20th century. 6.3