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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
What Goes Well With A Dry White
Italian winery Matteo Correggia has teamed up with designers Reverse Innovation to add short stories to wine bottles. This new line of wine is called Librottiglia. Each bottle of wine in the collection is paired with a short story that is … Continue reading
Underground Design
h/t to follower Evan Smythe for this post During the 1930s, London Transport’s first chief executive, Frank Pick, commissioned radical new designs for the system’s Underground stations, the famous Johnston typeface, and the iconic roundel. To mark the 75th anniversary … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, History, Public Transport
Tagged London, London Transport Museum, Piccadilly Circus, Tube
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City of a Million Bikes
In my ongoing promotion of print travel guidebooks, I’m happy to recommend the new Carl Goes Amsterdam guide. You may remember previous posts here on Carl Goes London and Carl Goes Berlin.This quirky series focuses on travel for creative types and modern urban nomads who … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Restaurants, Tourism, Travel Writing
Tagged Amsterdam, Berlin, guidebooks, London, Netherlands
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Natural Drama (for a change)
After days of political drama, high anxiety, and little sleep, I need some good old natural drama. Thank you Yannick Calonge for this amazing aerial footage of Iceland. Serendipitously, we were in country at the same time this September.
Stay Off The Tracks
International ad agency Havas Worldwide recently created these amusing public safety cartoons for RATP the Paris and Ile de France transport organization. I just wonder why they’re all in English. Are tourists the only dumb train riders?
Greetings From Jersey City
Brazilian street artist and accomplished muralist Eduardo Kobra recently completed this amazing David Bowie 180 foot-tall mural for Jersey City, New Jersey’s Artober festival.
Travel Between The Pages 