Issue No. 2: Why it pays to be grumpy, design facts, $110 million Basquiat and more...

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Worth Reading:

1. No Logo by Naomi Klein (Corporate brands and capitalism) 
2. Design Facts. Random, bite-sized design industry facts. 
3. William Blake’s Most Beautiful Letter: A searing defense of the Imagination and the Creative Spirit
4. How Orwell used wartime rationing to argue for global justice 
5. Why it pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered 
6. Why Do Filmmakers Color Grade Moonlight to Be Blue?
7. Why Spend $110 Million on a Basquiat?
8. Why This Florida City Is Debranding Itself
9. Patti Smith on the Two Kinds of Masterpieces and Her Fifty Favorite Books
10. 19th-Century Tool Box is Meticulously Designed to Hold 300 Tools
    

Worth Listening to:

1. Listener - Building Better Bridges
2. The Homeless Gospel Choir - Armageddon 
3. Brian Fallon - Forget Me Not

Worth watching:

1. Optimistic Nihilism. A beautifully animated philosophical video. 
2. It’s not you. Phones are designed to be addicting.
3. Tangled Up in Blue: Deciphering a Bob Dylan Masterpiece
   

Worth seeing:

1. The Klementinum in Prague, Czech Republic. I visited this library a few years ago and it's one of the most memorable places I've been. 

What I've been working on:

This t-shirt/sticker design for Disrupt! Automotive Art.