March 2015

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  • Brothel creeper. “In the late 1950s, these shoes were taken up by the Teddy Boys along with drainpipe trousers, draped jackets, bolo ties, quiff and pompadour haircuts, and velvet or electric blue clothes. [...] Self-made brothel creepers were picked up by the Soviet subculture stilyagi (rus. стиляги) in the mid 1950s. They were called ‘ботинки на манной каше’, literally men’s ‘shoes on semolina’, because they used to call the thick crepe sole ‘semolina’.”

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March 13, 2015

  • V&A: 11 tips for writing a killer proposal. Great read, really useful feedback from a client’s perspective. Also reminded me of how TED wrote about choosing the right agency — incidentally mentioned (and linked to) in one of the comments.

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