Welcome to the Miscellaneous Materials reading club. Collection 001.

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If you did intentionally sign up hoping to receive Miscellaneous Materials, then hurray! they're here! Today you're getting a batch of PDF's I collected from late January through yesterday. I intend(ed) to read these, but haven't quite gotten through all of them yet… Collection 001 dances around contributing to open source, some ethical implications re: user interfaces, digital/physical publishing, impacts from climate change, focusing on fringe cases, and some other goodies. I've also included the readings PDF from the free/libre/open source design class I ran last Spring, as well as the readings document from the current sustainability based graphic design course I am running right now. As this moves forward, I'll try to keep a better log about how/why/when/where/in what order I found certain things, but this first batch is mostly sans context.

Here's a DropBox folder with the PDFs individually: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ixzm9dpfiqjtjvt/AAA4b8GiIig7qoz1OsLZUKe6a?dl=0
And, if you want to just download them all at once here's a .zip archive of them: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1w3vvd2zmw75ug2/20190219-001-MiscellaneousMaterials.zip?dl=0

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Till next time,
Kristian

PS: This started earlier in January where a few people asked for links to the “Things to Read” books I've been making for myself. If you want to see the precursor docs, here's a link for a zip of all those too.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4a0bfu77jf31jh6/201901050026-ThingsToRead-v001-007.zip?dl=0

Colophon: The typefaces on the “cover” are all libre fonts: Le Murmure & Combat from Velvetyne, and BioRhyme from Aoife Mooney. Background images from Flickr Commons (I just took a screen grab and colored it).