56. When You Bring Your Dog To A Gunfight
Did you know that the word ‘aperitivo’ comes from the Latin ‘aperitiuvum’, meaning ‘to open’. You’re about to open #56 of The Dossier, welcome! If you’ve found your way over by some miracle but are not yet subscribed, here, let me help you with that:
Buongiorno friends,
Here’s five things I clicked on for you this week.
1. A Quote
“I don't trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: ‘Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.’”
— Maya Angelou
2. Hitting The Bottle
40 new wine bottle designs for Tillingham Wines by London-based designers, Kellenberger-White.
3. How To Behave Online
A digital decency manifesto via Monocle.
4. Loving
For the design event ‘Das Haus’ in Cologne, Germany, Valencia-based studio MUT Design has presented a future-oriented living concept for a home that merges architecture and its surrounding nature.
Inspired by the Modernist movement, the design studio took the limitless transition between interior and exterior to the extreme, showcasing an all-round open residential space in which furniture pieces create different living zones.
5. A Poem
Introduction To Poetry — Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
See you next Sunday.