Cycle Style vs. Cycle Chic

Two books explore the aesthetics of bike-riding

The North Atlantic Ocean may take hours to cross by plane but when it comes to the infiltration of bicycle culture—and specifically, the urban cycling aesthetic—the distance ceases to exist. Case in point: as we were busy attending the launch of the new book “Cycle Style” at London’s Look Mum, No Hands, a copy of “Cycle Chic” landed at CH HQ in New York. As …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Remembering Dick Clark, Vernacular Typography, Pulitzer Prize Photos and more in our weekly web roundup

1. Aquadom The world’s largest cylindrical aquarium is one of many amenities at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin, where 260,000 gallons of water house 1,500 fish. Scuba diving in the Aquadom isn’t an option for hotel guests, although there are plenty of vantage points to marvel at the engineering feat. 2. Dick Clark on “This is Your Life” In a vintage recording of “This …

Aquadom

Remembering Dick Clark, Vernacular Typography, Pulitzer Prize Photos and more in our weekly web roundup

The world’s largest cylindrical aquarium is one of many amenities at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin, where 260,000 gallons of water house 1,500 fish. Scuba diving in the Aquadom isn’t an option for hotel guests, although there are plenty of vantage points to marvel at the engineering feat.