FYI #23
‘Luminous’ truck strap artwork wins prestigious Biennale prize in first for New Zealand, via The Guardian. More information about the work of the artists, Mataaho Collective
Between the book club and BookTok: community reading in Montreal, via Public Books
2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction (UK) shortlist
I enjoyed Robert McFarlane’s introduction to a new edition of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain
Creative Conversations – Scaling a Creative Business, a conversation led by designer Vince Frost, with Shelley Simpson, Founder and Creative Director of Mud Australia, contemporary artist and UNSW Art & Design lecturer Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, and Professor Frederik Anseel Dean, UNSW Business School
Trailer for Jim Henson Ideas Man, a documentary made by Ron Howard
Eighteen designers create walking sticks for their future selves, via Dezeen
Yo-Yo Ma Performs Bach in Alaska for Earth Day, via Kottke
ARIA Top 50 Singles for week of 29 April 2024, hearing Richard Osman talk about the music charts on the podcast he makes with Marina Hyde, The Rest is Entertainment, reminded me it had been a long time since I’d looked at (or listened to) those lists.
‘Claudia Donaldson: in residence with the pioneering editor and creative director’, with Matt Gibberd on the Homing In podcast
An Artist’s 1970s Log Cabin, Passed Down From Grandma, via The Design Files