A Little Something Extra: Design
Lotería is a Mexican game, sort of like bingo but played with colorful cards rather than ping-pong balls. This year the San Antonio Spurs — my favorite NBA team — released its upcoming schedule in the form of a series of lotería cards:
Moquette is a kind of rugged woven fabric, usually patterned. It’s used, for instance, to cover the seats of Underground trains and buses in London, and now there’s a new book called Seats of London: A Field Guide to London Transport Moquette Patterns. Here are some, uh, samples:
The Things Magazine Pelican Project — just one of the endeavors at one of the coolest sites on the internet, has for years been collecting the covers of old Pelican paperbacks, from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Chief Zimmer’s Base Ball Game (1893):
