If you are planning a visit to the United States after January 20, 2017, please consider using the map above to set your itinerary. You may miss out on some of the most spectacular sights and landscape, but at least you will be in contact with saner and more congenial natives. However, if you choose to spend time in any areas on the map below, be prepared to cope with the walking brain-dead, AKA Trump voters.
Please note that the islands of sanity include some of our greatest cities and areas of natural beauty. So, you won’t have to sacrifice culture, art, great food,and the environment to avoid the moronic, bigoted minority who chose a bloated orange, racist, misogynistic piss bucket for President.
Jeremy Collins
A disparate group of hugely talented artists, designers, and typographers have joined together to for the Type Hike project, which has created unique poster art to celebrate the U.S. National Park Service centennial. The group is donation 100% of Type Hike profits to the National Parks Centennial Campaign. You can purchase postcards and poster prints right here.
Joshua Noom
Scott Bierstack
Matt Plays
Jeremy Teff
Jay Fletcher
David Carson
Chris Wright
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 wrapped around the bottle as part of its label. The collection includes both reds and whites. The concept is to encourage folks to relax with a glass of wine and enjoy a short story that complements the mood of the wine.
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 of Pick’s passing, the London Transport Museum and the Art on the Underground program commissioned a beautiful installation in the Piccadilly Circus station. The memorial is executed in bronze, marble, enamel, and LEDs, and incorporated quotes from Pick’s own notes.
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 want to combine their wanderings with work. Of course, you’ll also find lots of info on food, drink, sightseeing, biking, and general hanging about.
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.
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?
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