by Nicola | Sep 14, 2011
My team of eleven brave Food Studies bloggers. I’m extremely pleased to announce that I’m editing a new series called Food Studies for the online environmental magazine Grist. Thanks to the superhuman efforts of Grist’s new food editor, Twilight... by Nicola | Sep 7, 2011
IMAGE: The Metro Wine Map of France, designed by David Gissen. David Gissen is usually known as an architectural theorist whose publications (including a blog, and Subnature, a book I highly recommend) explore peripheral, denigrated, or otherwise overlooked aspects of... by Nicola | Aug 29, 2011
Those of you who follow me on Twitter may have already caught this snippet of news, but I’m delighted to announce that Geoff Manaugh (of BLDGBLOG) and I have recently been appointed as co-directors of Studio-X NYC, which is the Lower Manhattan outpost of a... by Nicola | Aug 10, 2011
While I was writing about Scandybars yesterday, I kept thinking that I had read something interesting about the relationship between sandwiches and the architectural cross section not too long ago. As usual, my prematurely senescent memory refused to offer up any more... by Nicola | Aug 9, 2011
IMAGE: A scanned Lion bar, invented by Allan Norman for Rowntree’s, and first introduced in 1977, in Dorset, image via Scandybars. Food photography is having a cross-sectional moment. From graphic designer Jon Chonko’s scanwiches — sandwiches, cut in half...