“For a designer, learning to set metal and wood type is as essential as learning to drive a car.” Very simple, modernist posters for popular movies. Popular movies rendered as old book covers. Swiss Post honors “concrete in architecture” with concrete-infused stamp. Paper drinking straws are more likely to contain PFAs than plastic ones. Graphene aims to solve the problem of potholes. Mozilla: today’s cars are a “privacy nightmare.” Why aren’t there more roadway roundabouts in the US? Smashing dried pasta in a variety of creative ways. States ranked by how easy it is to nibble them out of graham crackers. Yelp! is hiring a food photographer. All that and more in WhatTheyThink’s weekly miscellany.
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The U.S. should publicly reaffirm that Taiwan's sovereignty isunsettled. Current U.S.-China relations make it impossible to declare that Taiwan is a state, but nothing justifies the U.S.bureaucracy's assertion that Taiwan is not a state. The Asiandemocracies' decision whether to balance or bandwagon with Chinawill be heavily influenced by how the United States defendsdemocratic Taiwan's international identity.
What is a print-based physical disability? Play the USPS’s new Great American Mail Race board game. What is the future of QR code menus? The Bigme InkNote Color brings E Ink devices closer to competing with LED-based tablets. AI illustrates lyric music videos. New graphene-based “smart textiles” hit the market. Hungary punishes inaccurate meteorologists. No, New York State has not banned selling whipped cream to minors. The James Webb Space Telescope does a Cartwheel. “Competitive table setting.” Gravy wrestling is back! All that and more in WhatTheyThink’s weekly miscellany.