Issue no. Sarah. 20 September 2012

A collection of curated links from With Associates.

Continuing with our month of guest hosts, this time it’s the turn of digital content producer Sarah Chapman.

Sarah’s a longtime associate, having written for us on content curators It’s Nice That and on the ICO’s bungled communication of a new EU directive concerning online privacy.

Sarah’s chosen track is Beatmaker by Doris.

The swishwifflingly scrumdiddlyumptious language of Roald Dahl

Gobblefunk is the 238-word language created by Roald Dahl for the protagonist in The BFG. The vocabulary is comprised entirely of neologisms but, remarkably, they all make perfect, onomatopoeic sense. Scrawled on a notepad, here’s a bunkledoodle from Dahl.

100 Objects from Century of the Child

For those of us unable to visit New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the next six weeks, this Tumblr is the next best thing. Once each day, an object from the ‘Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000’ exhibition, which explores the interplay between design and childhood, is showcased.

The machine gaze

Writer Will Wiles examines the New Aesthetic – the appearance and conversion of the digital (8-bit nostalgia, compression artefacts, surveillance) in the physical world. He argues that, although banal, these observations have social, economic and political significance.

How has Bill Moggridge changed our world?

The British designer of the world’s first laptop, the Grid Compass, died earlier this month. In a tribute to Bill’s influence, the design and innovation consultancy he co-founded, IDEO, is inviting and posting ‘Bill-related’ memories.

Grounded

A stunning sci-fi short which, having received all manner of film festival awards, has just found its way onto Vimeo via director Kevin Margo. Compelling from start to finish, this is a seven-minute mix of ambitious storytelling and accomplished VFX.

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