Benches that you can’t sleep on. Low walls with sharp spikes that prevent you from sitting down. High windows in class rooms that prevent kids from looking outside. Slanted tops on furniture, so you don’t set things down.

Penguin great ideas

Illustrator Coralie Bickford-Smith redesigned the Penguin Classics. They all have gorgeous patterns, but I’m particularly enchanted with these F. Scott Fitzgerald covers.

p.s. I couldn’t figure out how to link to multiple images in Tumblr, so I downloaded all the images from her website.  

William H. Whyte: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - The Street Corner

Small fragment of William H. Whyte’s witty and original film about the open spaces of cities and why some of them work for people while others do not.