GrayMatter

A weekly collection of bits of Internet that I've found on my shoe.

It's official, infographics are everywhere: wine labels by Nick Felton. / Mmmm, Corkellis House. One of the best Grand Designs projects of recent years. / Lots of lovely Goldfinger vinyl covers. / This is why you should get involved in Movember. / Another way to raise money: "I am a guy who made thousands of dollars selling used socks on eBay". / Also on eBay: "Nicolas Cage is a Vampire – Photo from 1870 Tennessee". / Wilco live on Letterman. New album out next week. A tad excited. REM? REM who? / Remembering Bertrand Goldberg, the pioneer behind Chicago's corncob towers (and therefore partly responsible for the perfection that is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot). / Online gamers have managed to solve a decade-old scientific puzzle. In three weeks. / Warco, an FPS where you hold a camera instead of a gun.

Really enjoying Gimme Bar – here's my collection of yummy magazine covers. / I've only just discovered creative curation blog Brain Pickings – loving that colour scheme. / Interview with the makers of beautiful project management tool Solo. / Eye classic collections: essentially sets of four back issues around a particular theme. No doubt significantly better than most design books for same price. / The BBC don't have brand guidelines. They have a "Global Experience Language". Bloody hell. Meanwhile, Channel 4's style guides are rather nice.

Sci-fi-ish photos of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by Greg White. This is basically what the new The Thing movie should look like, but won't. / Vincent Fournier's crisp, detached pictures of space facilities straddle the divide between documentary and fantasy. / Darth Vader hairdryer. / How many people are in space right now? / Contagion sidewalk ads feature type made of growing bacteria. / William Gibson's rejected Alien 3 screenplay. Interesting, but it's no dog-alien in a space-prison full of British character actors. / Lebbeus Wood's wooden space monastery concept art for yet another Alien 3 that never was.