The always brilliant Present /&/ Correct (check out their sundries) shares an excellent design resource in this full and open archive of the East German design trade magazine form+zweck. In print from 1956 to 2008 originally under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, featured articles focused on design and architectural developments domestically and abroad. Much more to explore at the links above—especially the dazzling covers which easily translate in any context.
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spitzmaus mummy in a coffin and other treasures : Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum’s guest curators, Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf siss-b... -
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Steel magnate and prolific inventor during the late nineteenth century and second-wave of the Industrial Revolution—whose innovations were ... -
dolia : new research reveals Roman wines to be of premium quality, contrary to conventional wisdom, and comparable to modern European standa... -
The podcast is dead; long live the podcast. Searching for something to make the long commutes home pass a little quicker—and without the di... -
An 1959 early spring testimony before an American senate subcommittee on the effects of “Red China Communes on the United States” by an Asi... -
Through a series of photographs capturing the outlines of the ensemble of the Pyramids at Giza shrouded in mist, we discover the extensiv... -
Venerated on this day on the occasion her death in 1433, aged 52 after a life of suffering progressively worsening ailments due to an accide... -
First performed on this day in 1951 in community hall of the Hirschbach (presently the Hotel Zum goldenen Hirsch) of Suhl by local musi...