Wednesday
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25 May 2011#GuestEd #Daniel
So yesterday I was the guest editor of Creative Review's tweets. It was a tad frantic at times and just a little bit daunting (370k followers!), but overall it was exceedingly fun. Big thanks to CR's chief centaurs, Mark and Neil, for inviting me to be their magazine's voice for one day – and thanks also to all the repliers, retweeters, well-wishers, etc.
As is traditional (well, my predecessors have done it, so that makes it a tradition in my book), here's a selection of the day's tweets. Looking at them all thogether, I think that's a fairly good snapshot of my interests (wandering around generic sci-fi corridors in my blue towelling playsuit, eating scotch eggs and looking for pigeon footprints).
- Hello everyone. Please be gentle.
- Who needs Google Maps when @herblester's papery alternatives exist? They smell nice too.
- As of just a minute ago, @creativereview is me … me … ME … ALL ME. MWAH HAH HAH!
- That should be @herb_lester, obviously. #uselessnewtemp
- The tragically hip beauty of the Unabomber's personal items.
- Sleeve design for what may as well be called "This week's Joy Division/New Order compilation"
- In praise of sci-fi corridor design. A nerdulous classic of a blog post from @denofgeek
- Get yourself a pigeon footprint or a lump of bad luck from @reliquarium
- The wonderful mind of @bldgblog takes us underground, five times.
- Apologies – the scattershot links and thinks of things magazine will keep you distracted for days
- The Buffy the Vampire Slayer guide to freelancing.
- In case you were wondering what the whole #GuestEd thing was about.
- And may I just say what a fine job @visualeditions did yesterday? Check out their book-alchemy.
- Found on a blog I just stumbled upon: an open letter to @TomGauld and @ManMadeMoon.
- Take a typographic stroll around the City of London with Linefeed
- Helsinkians want to see something else on bus stops, so something else is what they'll get
- Meet Alan, your new favourite miniature singing advertising animal geezer dog.
- Experimental App i3D offers spec-less 3D on iOS. A bit clunky, but intriguing.
- "3D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension" – @ebertchicago
- Boat Studio move entire office to Sarejevo to produce first issue of new magazine
- Fantastic collection of Stanley Kubrick's photographs of Chicago, 1949
- For those of you loving the Kubrick shots you really need to point your eyes at Drama and Shadows
- Animal magic: illustrator John Sibbick's Flesh and Bone colouring concertina
- Analysis by Clothes On Film of a sixties design classic: the Goldfinger blue towelling playsuit
- Thinking of doing a design PhD? Trust me, I'm a doctor.
- Keep your creative diary full with CreativeEveryone (but what – no York?)
- More photographs of New York bridges and tunnels than you can shake a stick at.
- A service vital to the wellbeing of creatives everywhere: the mail-order scotch egg.
- Could everyone stop doing Saul Bass pastiches and look over here at his killer ant movie?
- Flickr designer publicly criticises Flickr's design.
- The Barbican Centre to celebrate 30th anniversary with Bauhaus and Blanchett.
- The posters of Cannes 2011. They really should give the whole type-over-picture thing a rest.
- 41 Bob Dylan magazine covers.
- Massive archive of Philip K Dick covers (shame no thumbnails, seems very low-tech for PKD).
- One of the best indies out there: Gym Class Magazine. It's not square, but not all mags can be perfect.
- How to dress like a creative, circa 1995.
- Bedsheet typography, via the new and lovely @typetoken
- A typographic treat to end the day: Enter The Void credits (do NOT watch if you've a hangover)
- Lost my job as the #GuestEd because they didn't like me playing golf whilst tweeting. Apparently I spent too long on the links. #repundancy
- Have thoroughly enjoyed being #GuestEd for the day – thanks for all the RTs and mentions and responses and whatnot. #tired
- Be seeing you :)
Reader Comments (2)
Good work, well done for not panicking.
I am so glad you threw in some Bob Dylan references on his birthday. Awesome job!