Archive - REMORANDOM

James De Vries | Design Thinker

At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling.

Mar 19 • Remo Giuffré

30:52

As a design ethos – is it dead or alive? Do you even know what it is?

Mar 18 • Remo Giuffré

The mosquito coil wasn't always a coil. It was the Japanese inventor's wife who suggested that longer sticks be coiled into a spiral shape. Voila! The…

Mar 17 • Remo Giuffré

Sometimes assumed to be a Japanese character, Miffy is as Dutch as they come.

Mar 16 • Remo Giuffré

Deception has long been a part of war. The Trojan Horse, anyone?

Mar 15 • Remo Giuffré

Before there were alarm clocks, there were the “knocker-uppers”. How did that work?

Mar 12 • Remo Giuffré

I think you know the one.

Mar 11 • Remo Giuffré

Japanese Manhole Covers

What began as an engineering necessity has evolved into a national curiosity and an unlikely art form.

Mar 10 • Remo Giuffré

France’s Minitel was the internet before there was an internet.

Mar 9 • Remo Giuffré

The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks

Kicking off the week with a biological thriller. Without this woman's extraordinary cells there would be no polio vaccines; nor would there be any IVF…

Mar 8 • Remo Giuffré

What's funny – and why?

Can robots and the machines ever really get the joke? Remo speaks with Bob Mankoff, longtime cartoon editor for The New Yorker magazine about the…

Mar 5 • Remo Giuffré

27:00

On the way to becoming "Scrabble" it was called "Lexico" and then “Criss-Cross Words”. Who was behind this famous word game?

Mar 4 • Remo Giuffré

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