Spike Carter

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One sunny morning in 2009, with a group of friends, I took the train from Grand Central Terminal to Beacon, New York. I was 20, and despite being an obsessive creative I had never had a genuinely transcendent experience in a museum. Whether it was the mobs of tourists, sub-optimal lighting, or distracting placards, attending exhibitions in the city was for me a passive act of looking at art, not one of actually seeing it.

4 weeks ago | airmail.news | Spike Carter

track Traintrackr “I’ve always liked collecting and displaying data in different ways,” says Richard Hawthorn, founder of Traintrackr. Having studied electronics and telecommunications in college, over the years he designed more than 100 experimental printed circuit boards (P.C.B.’s) visualizing inputted data with L.E.D. lights. One particular P.C.B. he constructed tracked live MBTA trains in Boston. “People asked to buy them from me, and I realized I had a business on my hands,” he says.

1 month ago | airmail.news | Spike Carter

LOOK Mirage “A parallel universe for people who are looking for a dreamy, endless summery utopian kind of world” is how German art director Frank Rocholl has described Mirage magazine. “Dream cars, dream girls, interesting architecture and interiors or objects.” Rocholl co-founded the independent fashion-and-culture publication in 2009 with photographer Henrik Purienne.

1 month ago | airmail.news | Spike Carter

WRITE Ito Bindery My desire for the perfect notepad led me to Japan—Ito Bindery of Tokyo, to be exact. Founded in 1938 as a bookbindery, the firm, now third-generation-owned, started by producing brand catalogues and expanded over the years to promotional materials and, eventually, high-end stationery. The expertise that comes with a foundation of bookbinding yields the manufacture of truly superlative handmade memo blocks and notepads.

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8 hours agoThese foods will help you combat inflammation, which can lead to chronic illnesses, like diabetes and heart disease. The word “inflammation“ is thrown around a lot as a potential cause of chronic health problems. But what does it mean, really? Inflammation is the body’s reaction to stress — like an …