Blue Marble HD

Plane sex, David Lynch's coffee, the world's beautiful bookstores and more in our look at the web this week

The iconic photo of Earth, taken from outer space by the Apollo 17 crew in 1972, gets a high-def makeover from NASA. The exceptionally crisp new image, originally dubbed Blue Marble, is a composite of data collected by the new Suomi satellite put into orbit October 2012.

The Competition Bicycle

The relationship between bike design and competitive cycling shown in a new book on the craftsmanship of speed

The bicycle has seen numerous incarnations since rolling onto the scene well over a century ago, but the natural human desire to race them on the road and off has remained constant. In his new book “The Competition Bicycle“, Bicycle Quarterly editor Jan Heine chronicles the evolution of the two-wheeled vehicle and how professional racing has influenced its design, from the High Wheeler penny-farthing to …

In Search Of The Miraculous or One Thing Leads To Another

Milton Glaser's latest book shows adaptation as a mechanism for learning

Over the past five years, the highly influential graphic designer Milton Glaser has designed rugs, sculptures, posters and interior spaces for a variety of independent projects. In the forthcoming book based on the 2010 AIGA exhibition of the same name, “In Search Of The Miraculous or One Thing Leads To Another“, Glaser shows how the concepts for these works relate to each other as a …