My American Summer

The zany tale of an eccentric illustrator moving abroad

Jon Burgerman is as easily distracted as he is a talented and obsessive doodler. Fortunately, his humorous ruminations recently made their way from his sketchbook to the printed page in a new self-published book called “My American Summer“. The 92-page hardbound zine chronicles his move from Nottingham, England to NYC (by way of LA) through a cast of colorful cartoons, for a loose autobiography that …

Future Self

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A beautiful piece of interactive LED art, Future Self is an enchanting work created by rAndom International for MADE gallery in Berlin. A combination of LEDs and custom software mimic and interpret motion, creating a captivating set of changing light patterns.

Museum

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An 80-square-foot former freight elevator, NYC’s newest museum is as curious as its super simple name—which is Museum. The current exhibition features an intriguing assortment of goods, like toothpaste from around the world and items found at the bottom of the sea, showing what curator Alex Kalman calls “beauty and magic in the everyday.”