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A common theme of Miles’ covers was the emphasis on Wolff’s photography.
The history of album art || Matthew Ström, designer-leaderWolff’s portraits were candid, realistic, showing black musicians at work.
The history of album art || Matthew Ström, designer-leaderBlue Note Records, founded in 1939, was fixated on the jazz underground.
The history of album art || Matthew Ström, designer-leader. The last touch, a nod to the graphic abstraction of his mentor Joseph Binder, were orange lines arcing around the marquee in the exact size of the record underneath.
The history of album art || Matthew Ström, designer-leaderA front porch in Chicago looks different from a balcony in Lagos, but they share the pattern: making space for serendipitous encounters, creating porous boundaries, practicing futures at human scale.
What if sitting on the front porch could change the world?It's microdosing agency rather than strategic theatre — making change feel possible at human scale rather than overwhelming people with the magnitude of what needs shifting.
What if sitting on the front porch could change the world?Gathering as technology. Bringing people together in slightly different ways is itself a powerful, if lo-fi, technology for change. What Priya Parker calls "temporary alternative worlds" where people can experience different ways of being together.
What if sitting on the front porch could change the world?It’s short on designers who can navigate the blurred boundaries between product, design, engineering, and marketing—and deliver results at all of them. Execution is abundant. Strategic, hybrid execution is rare.
Designers! Designers! Designers! - by Carly AyresYou have to act your way out, starting with small gestures that prove different arrangements are possible. Moving your body (sitting on a porch) shifts your thinking in ways that trying to think differently cannot.
What if sitting on the front porch could change the world?We discovered that strangeness works as a tool for change not by arguing people into new perspectives, but by demonstrating possibilities. B
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