Category: Newsletter Archive

Thoughts on Ikea’s new “dream job” campaign; a potted history of the pocket t-shirt; the shape of space; a relief map of Manhattan; & more…

Plus: The Most Commonly Used 4-Digit PIN Codes; Shape-Shifting Vines; The Rediscovery of a “Lost” Typeface; & more…

Plus: Fruit-Shaped Bus Shelters, Portraits by Thandiwe Murui, and a whole lot more. In other news, how is it nearly February already?!

I disappear down an AI chatbot rabbit hole…

Seeking out awe in the everyday; Vulture Bees(!); Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell’s defaced book covers; the magic of Slime Molds; and more…

Ideas from Oliver Burkeman; a comic from Chaz Hutton; a study which suggests the Earth’s Core has stopped(!); the Wonders of Street View; Gio Swaby’s Textile Portraits; & more…

Issue 55 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Is the urge to start a company caused by a brain parasite? Plus: Strange and Beautiful Google Maps Reviews; Why the Super Rich are Inevitable; Urban Tetris; a strong contender for Headline of the Year; & more…

Issue 54 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Naming outrageous numbers; a (possibly universal) bias in human imagination; Diana Yevtukh’s embroidery; & more…

Issue 53 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Part II of my review of the year.

Issue 52 of the Manufacturing Serendipity newsletter. Part I of my review of the year.