(a public cafe chair designed with a better place for your bag as you pay attention to your food and company)
Design is ubiquitous (and so are thieves). With the holiday shopping season in full effect, these illustrations on thief techniques are noteworthy.

This is quite amazing…
Summer 2005, a street of houses in Vienna’s 7th district – for a period of two weeks all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos will disappear. The fabric of signs and signals so characteristic of our cities, which normally fills the space between the architectural structures and the urban movement [...]

Ed from Radiohead reminds us that sometimes in order to get yourself out of a rut or to stop repeating yourself, you simply need to stop and restart:
… you don’t realize once you’ve stopped how hard it is to regain the momentum …….. you literally get out the habit of doing it…….. but often the [...]

Another day on the subway, another day of NYU continuing education ads. This one I have not seen before: “The class is two hours, the post-class discussion - 3 cappuccinos.” I’m not sure what the marketing geniuses at NYU are trying to tell us. Post-class discussion? Is that a date? [...]

On the F train this morning, I saw an NYU Continuing Education ad featuring a lady reading what seems to be NYU’s course catalog, with this sentence floating next to her head,
There are already five courses I want to take, and I’m only on page twenty.
Holy schnizel! Somebody get me a copy of that [...]

40 years ago today, a nearly-one-week riot started in Watts, where “34 people, 25 of them black, were dead and more than 1,000 were injured”. 40 years later, the divisions are still there.
Thomas Pynchon weighs in on the riot in a article published in the New York Times Magazine (12 June, 1966) titled, Journey [...]

Banksy does it again!
(via Wooster Collective)