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TODAY ONLY! Save 10% on EVERYTHING! Code: JAN31 / Take Shape, No. 2 — Commute / Available at www.draw-down.com / Take Shape is a publication driving the streets of architectural, legal, and political thinking. This second issue looks at the subjective and daily experience of transportation—the #commute. At a time when most cities’ public #transportation systems are barely scraping by, billionaires are whimsically proposing hyperloops and #spacetravel. #Take Shape looks at this disconnect, and the ways in which transportation can be improved, outside of the model of entrepreneurial investment, through community-driven planning and increased state funding. This issue includes a collaborative community redesign of a Los Angeles train station by LA-Más; a dialogue between Kafka and airport security by : (colon); a proposal to reinvest in a national rail system by Danya Sherman; and a photographic archive of entrances to #NewYork #subway stations by Robert Prochaska. Edited by #NolanBoomer, Cole Cataneo, and Julia Goodman. Designed and illustrated by #SeanSuchara https://www.instagram.com/p/BtTO93tnTJg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mt13ccugqhjr

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Take Shape, No. 2 — Commute / Available at www.draw-down.com / Take Shape is a publication driving the streets of architectural, legal, and political thinking. This second issue looks at the subjective and daily experience of transportation—the #commute. At a time when most cities’ public #transportation systems are barely scraping by, billionaires are whimsically proposing hyperloops and #spacetravel. #Take Shape looks at this disconnect, and the ways in which transportation can be improved, outside of the model of entrepreneurial investment, through community-driven planning and increased state funding. This issue includes a collaborative community redesign of a Los Angeles train station by LA-Más; a dialogue between Kafka and airport security by : (colon); a proposal to reinvest in a national rail system by Danya Sherman; and a photographic archive of entrances to #NewYork #subway stations by Robert Prochaska. Edited by #NolanBoomer, Cole Cataneo, and Julia Goodman. Designed and illustrated by #SeanSuchara (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqw44NAAr3D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ftm3qd1iibg1

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The Cell Tree by Nolan Boomer / Available at www.draw-down.com / Designed by Elana Schlenker. A research-based publication on cellular towers disguised as trees. Following the Telecommunications Act in 1996, thousands of these “trees" have sprung up across the US. Often unconvincing and costly, what do these towers suggest about our relationship with the telecommunications industry? How does this relate to an understanding of productive communication? Written by American book artist and editor Nolan Boomer and designed by Elana Schlenker, the publication uses the recent success of Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees to show how people already venerate the tree as an ideal communicator. Tree diagrams, Judeo-Christian mythology, and the visual language of Greenpeace are used to display the tree as a discrete node within a larger matrix of data exchange. #graphicdesign #typography #zine #riso #risograph #NolanBoomer