Hand-Picked Links — November 11, 2024
We’re in the eye of the storm, folks. Appreciate this week or two before the holidays come crashing down. Here’s our ~weekly contribution to a nicer and healthier internet sharing ecosystem.
Alphabet in Motion
Our good friend Kelli Anderson is back with another impossible book, this time on the history of typography. The project is already well-funded, but if you want in on the first edition, you have only 10 days left to join the Kickstarter. Fun and informative for all ages. Shipping in 2025, though it does come with a book voucher and full-color brochure for holiday gifting.
My First Book of Fancy Letters
Speaking of friends, kids, and books… Jessica Hische just released a brand-new one (a book (for kids)). It also just so happens to be about letters, or more specifically all the fun and unique ways you can draw letters. The perfect gift for the aspiring child artist in your life.
Jorrien and Tiera Peterson Interview
Did you miss our interview with husband-and-wife design team Fell? We won’t apologize for being suckers for anything and everything NPS.
Shop the full Fell collection on Cotton Bureau.
Mountain Dew
Love the logo, hate the packaging. Thick, rugged, high energy. A welcome return to the peak of my Mountain Dew drinking years (late ‘90s and early ‘00s). Could do without the establishment date in the negative space but whatever. Read Armin Vit’s review at Brand New for a full breakdown.
Pea-not Allergies
Peanut allergies weren’t a thing when I was young. With our own kids (ages 9–16), we’ve also always had somewhat of a laissez-faire attitude toward parenting, so carefully shielding them from peanuts was not something we remotely considered.
Whatever skepticism we had toward the validity of peanut allergies was less of a disbelief in their existence and more of an affirmative position toward the general hardiness of kids.
My wife grew up on a dairy farm. Her family kept raccoons as pets, which meant that when our children were small I was more concerned with them contracting rabies or possibly being flattened by an off-road vehicle than the chance they would be attacked by a rogue legume.
Anyway, good to hear that our general shrug emoji approach seems to have been validated by new and better science this time.
(Link via Kottke.)
That’s it for this week. Send us your favorite links so we can share them with everyone.