Wednesday, March 25, 2015
I can write an imitation of a Michael Dickman poem in five minutes.
— Michael Dickman
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Does the world need another font? Of course not.
— “Writ Small,” Smithsonian Magazine
Monday, March 23, 2015
Phone.
— MK
Sunday, March 22, 2015
I thought it might interest you, as a ski enthusiast and lover of beautiful things (cf. Joella).
— Walter Paepcke, Letter to Herbert Bayer, May 22, 1945.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Come out, your friends are here!
— Sheila to Sleepy (cat)
Friday, March 20, 2015
When a bottle of bubbly is not festive enough, the Champagne Sabre will certainly get the party started. Aim towards where the vertical seam of the bottle meets the top lip, and strike away from the base. The pressure inside the bottle automatically ensures a clean, shards cut. Made of stainless steel.
— Item Tag, “NEW, Champagne Sabre, Karim Rashid, 2013,″ MOMA Store
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Sandy!
— Christopher, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Bayer, despite his frequent melancholy, was the one artist who caused Paepcke no discomfort in the shared company of businessmen.
— James Sloan Allen, The Romance of Commerce and Culture
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
One thing I don’t need is furniture. I live alone in an 8 room house.
— Old woman at Skillman Furniture
Monday, March 16, 2015
A book of this nature inevitably contains misspellings, incorrections and discrepancies.
— Herbert Bayer, World Geo-Graphic Atlas
Sunday, March 15, 2015
I like the message that you are conveying with this series of pictures. We should devour books like we devour our food. With salt and Tabasco sauce.
— Kathleen
Saturday, March 14, 2015
project for exhibition pavilion at an industrial fair 1924. toothpaste for sale inside.
— Herbert Bayer, herbert bayer: painter, designer, architect
Friday, March 13, 2015
How do they keep that clean? If I were a bird I’d shit that place up!
— Lily
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Just as a visiting player is about to shoot a free throw, two students pull apart two big black curtains to reveal a new five-second act in a continuing theater of the absurd.
— Justin Wolfers, “How Arizona State Reinvented Free-Throw Distraction,” The New York Times
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
I love that you say you have empathy for caviar.
— Nathan Carter
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
What’s the ambition?
— Joe Scanlan
Monday, March 9, 2015
All supposedly ventures of capitalists in the thick of thinking about profit margins and returns on investment, their buildings do have an obvious bottom-line logic-they can be occupied and rented-the landscape expanses can only be looked at. They seemingly do not square, at least not in a straightforward financial sort of way.
— Louise A. Mozingo, Pastoral Capitalism
Sunday, March 8, 2015
If you ask for criticism, you get it. If you don’t there is a chance everyone will be too busy to worry about it.
— Charles Eames via Beatriz Colomina, “Enclosed by Images: The Eameses’ Multimedia Architecture”
Saturday, March 7, 2015
I’m a pro.
— Public Saftey Officer after completing metal puzzle
Friday, March 6, 2015
We're going to Philly.
— Gerry