Sigmund Freud was born on this day in 1856. Trained as a neurologist Freud was the founding father of psychoanalysis and left one of the larger footprints on 20th century thought and culture. His "innovative treatment of human actions, dreams, and indeed of cultural artifacts as invariably possessing implicit symbolic significance has proven to be extraordinarily fruitful, and has had massive implications for a wide variety of fields including psychology, anthropology, semiotics, and artistic creativity and appreciation." "Massive implications," a huge public impact. Well, what about the his private life? In 1975 The Sigmund Freud Society published a catalog, Sigmund Freud=House, listing...
Art & Sole: Wild shoes for a good cause
“You can take me out of Manhattan, but you can’t take me out of my shoes!”- Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) Sex and the City If shoes are your thing no doubt you've heard of Stuart Weitzman. With retail stores across the U.S.A. and with its shoes sold in over 70 countries the brand is on top of the luxury footwear heap and "has earned a worldwide reputation as the embodiment of great American Style." Since the first shop opened on Madison Avenue in New York in 1995 Jane Gershon Weitzman, Stuart's wife and "sole mate", has been commissioning artists to create fantasy shoes...
The Future is Here: When Science Fiction Turns Real
Infographic brought by Isabelle Turner, PrinterInks This is an evolving graph if you know of a true science fiction prediction to add io9 has the details. And I need to read Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, who has a whopping 9 predictions that have come to fruition! Published in 1968 and set in 2010...
Biblio Lasagna
How about this one for your next catered affair. Created by the German design firm KOREFE for a large publishing house, it is billed as "The first and only Cookbook you can actually read, cook and eat." Sheets of printed pasta that you fill with good stuff, cook and eat! Yum. h/t Boing Boing. Previously on Book Patrol: Eat This Book
Library Cheat Sheet
Every wonder how they do it? How libraries big and small organize all that material. With this handy visual we get a peek into the brain of a librarian. It's Dewey Decimal vs. Library of Congress. I think Covers by Chip Kidd is misshelved. graphic by newhousemaps.