📰 Noteworthy stories for today #34
When Dasani left home, the Type with a thousand faces & A battle against time biking across a glacier
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This weekend was spent travelling to little villages, eating Lebanese food, scribbling exciting ideas down but I still found some time to read some interesting pieces over the week.
When Dasani Left Home
In 2012, Andrea Elliott followed 11 year old Dasani and her family of 10 for 14 months as they were homeless, bouncing between places and gradually opening up on their lives. The heroine of the story, Dasani gripped readers through the 5 part series but after the noise died down how did her life really change, did the outpouring of attention and donations really make a difference? Read on The New York Times Magazine how her life after the series unfolded.
The Type with a Thousand Faces
Despite the myriad novels, stories, characters, plots, authors and book covers one element has remained ubiquitous, maybe not noticeably so but once you see it you, you’ll see it everywhere - the typeface Albertus. From self-help books, volumes of poetry, sci-fi novels to historical tombs and David Bowie catalogues, Albertus has carved itself a niche a timeless and characterful typeface that feels at home on just about anything published and just like his typeface it’s creator Berthold Wolpe is just as interesting. Read on the profile on Esquire UK.
The Battle Against time Biking Across an Icelandic Glacier
A short but gripping story of 3 cyclists in a race to out pace an incoming storm across an Icelandic glacier. As interesting for it’s endeavour as it is for Angus’s experience of time warping and squeezing, minutes disguise themselves as hours and what seem like hours melt into minutes when checked on his Casio. Read on Hodinkee.
See ya
M