All articles from Chris Glass

Rian Johnson’s personal website

Photos! Scripts! Movies! Lots to click around here! And though I wish there was context for images on the home page, there’s something to be said for mystery. Enjoyed the 16mm b&w short, Evil Demon Go

Tin Can Holiday Tree

Now’s a good time to start saving up tin cans to make this mid-century modern inspired decoration. (Instructions also available in video format.) / via Tom

How to Paint Protest Signs

Chris Campe of All Things Letters provides a guide for elevating the typography and punch of protest signs. / via Sara Joy

Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green

Beth Matthews (whose work you’ve seen) does a deep dive into the color theory behind control rooms — with insight about Faber Birren, a consultant who established and championed semantic commercial co

Web Rewind

Opera (makers of a web browser) made this little nostalgic romp through the internet. It harkens back to the days of Flash websites where you had to figure out what was happening (in a good, not enshi

memoj.it

Every time I bump into Sol & Michele’s emoji matching game I give it a whirl and immediately feel a tiny bit calmer. (Word games can stress me out a little.) There’s an extra dollop of joy when I corr

The Missing History of Our National Parks

I was surprised to see a segment on CBS Sunday Morning about the removal of signs from America’s National Parks. Programming has been off from the usual since the current administration installed a ne

The Good Old Days

Noah Kalina shared snaps from an assignment for the New York Times about classic Pizza Huts and nostalgia. The photos are warm, wonderful, and reinforce the notion to visit one of these pizzerias froz

The fanciful designs of Parker Brothers games

I filed away this link from Daring Fireball after a cursory scroll to enjoy at leisure. John McCoy dives into the graphic stylings of Parker Brothers games of the 70’s, many of which are seared into m

Lucky Edition Field Notes

Was just listening to a local NPR segment about the chaos swirling around the end of penny production. There wasn’t a strategy in place to phase them out so retailers are left to sort through the afte

Internet Phonebook Issue 2

There’s great joy finding real folks circling the internet. The first edition of the Internet Phone Book captured lots of that humanity. They’ve just opened up submissions for Issue 2 with new categor

This Is Not The Computer For You

This might seem like a review of the new MacBook Neo, but it’s way more than that. Sam Henri Gold shares a slice of personal history with computers and finding the edges of possibility.