Because he’s weak, ineffectual, plain and unadventurous.

If the world comes to a flaming, burning end and I become a fucking hipster who totes around a magical and revolutionary iPad, I would probably get this beautifully re-purposed and thoughtfully re-crafted Classic Macintosh stand to go with it.

Meanwhile, before the world ends, I’m hoping to build my own tablet computer.

Dieter Rams’s 620 Chair Program is a comfortable, modular and minimally designed chair system that could be modified into even a sofa system. And it’s quite a thing of timeless beauty, too.

Matt Stevens pays homage to his favourite designers and illustrators—including the likes of Nicholas Felton, Armin Vit, Jessica Hische, Aesthetic Apparatus and Olly Moss—with graphic re-interpretations of the classic Nike Air Max 1 for a month. Brilliant idea and great execution, plus it was a great pair of shoes, too.

Early this year, two men started on a quest to save the Polaroid film after it was discontinued. Now, it seems Polaroid are going to team up with the brave folks from The Impossible Project to relaunch some of the classic instant cameras from Polaroid.

The release of Screamadelica in 1991 brought decadence and hedonism crashing into the pop charts. With Andrew Weatherall (of Two Lone Swordsmen fame) at the controls, Primal Scream transformed from a bluesy rock band into sonic pioneers of beautiful noise that you could rock and dance to.

While “Come Together” and “Loaded” probably received the most air play, I’d rate “Higher Than The Sun” and the 13th Floor Elevators’ cover, “Slip Inside This House” as the best tracks on this album. I remember reading a review back in the day that said that this album was ‘of its time, and yet timeless’ — there’s probably no better way to describe this ’90s classic.

For more than four weeks, I have been listening non-stop to the new Kasabian album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. This, my friends, is my album of the year so far. Thick, fuzzy beats and dirty synths make this album a very addictive listen, despite the occasional aggro ‘ladrock’ lyric. This is like Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR with all the energy and production values but without the political leanings and manic intensity.

One major disappointment has to be the album cover photography and the inlay art. On a conceptual level, the photography works but dressing up the band and shooting them almost feels like an easy way out. The art direction on the inlay is nothing to write (or type) home about either. Not bad, but graphically not great enough for an outstanding album.

Huw Gwilliam brilliantly re-imagines classic album covers as classic Pelican book covers.

Genius!

What a cheeky bastard, too!

Some of the book covers sport some absolutely stunning design work . It’s hard to believe they were all designed many decades ago. In fact, I actually recognize some of the covers which I remember reading in my younger days at the old National Library.

I crawl up, switch on the engine and stay there for four hours until all the petrol runs out. The van bounces back up so we can all get out, but then the gold goes over.

›› Sir Michael Caine reveals the ending to the original Italian Job

Match Day Football Programmes is a collection of match day programmes from the golden era of British football (before all the commercialism, professionalism and all that) published by Fuel Design. It features English league (and a few non-league) clubs from 1945 to 1991. At £18 a piece, this pocket sized book is an excellent window into the simpler (albeit amateur) days of the beautiful game.