Works That Work, No.2 , Share The Unexpected Success of the Boeing 747 by Ed van Hinte (1891 words) The 747, the product of a complex, demanding collaborative design process, became an icon of the modern age, much to Boeing’s surprise. Cover photo: PanAm, Boeing’s most important customer at the time…

Works That Work, No.2 , Share A Tunnel to the Other Side by Rob Cameron (2233 words) A tunnel to Yugoslavia would have simplified the trip from landlocked Czechoslovakia to the sea… …if Cold War politics hadn’t interfered. In the late 1970s, as the third decade of the Cold War was drawing to a…

Images courtesy of John Habraken and The Heineken Company World Bottles — Amsterdam, the Netherlands by Anne Miltenburg In 1957 on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, brewery executive Alfred Henry ‘Freddy’ Heineken observed how imported beer bottles were going to waste. He also noted the absence of…

Seconds into any Digable Planets’ song and you’ll hear it: the Afrofuturism of Sun Ra, the unorthodox free jazz of Albert Ayler, the black spirituality of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme , the spoken-word funk of the Last Poets. Freedom, progressivism, oneness, harmony, and serendipity are the core…

John Fogerty claims he wrote “Fortunate Son” in just 20 minutes. But the music he made with Creedence Clearwater Revival has soundtracked visions of the Vietnam War in pop culture for what feels like an eternity. It was 1969. The war had reached its bloody apex. Nixon was bombing Cambodia in secret.…

Remember the Discman? A Tribute to the Portable Music Players of 1998 Before the iPod and smartphones, Walkmen and Discmen allowed for technologically simple—yet blissfully distraction-free—listening on the go. Photos by David Brandon Geeting by Contributor Photo Gallery February 21 2018 In 1998,…