My Grandparent’s moved their family to East Kilbride when my Grandfather got a job in the new town. They stayed there after retirement and I have happy memories of visiting them throughout the 1980s. Since becoming interested in architecture and design of the 50s and 60s the town has again caught my attention and more than ever I think it’s a very special place.

Thank you Anne at I like for letting us know that this month is East Kilbride’s 60th birthday.

Ruins Safaris

An urban exploration photo set from Ruin Tourist on Flickr. I particularly like the empty kodak building and photographs found there.

Arcade Fire

Interactive music video for Neon Bible (via notcot.org). Arcade Fire can do no wrong.

Yokoespen

Yokoespen’s photo set - if it was a book I would buy it.

Cut out science illustrations

Not immune to colors by Airform Archives. A series of photos of the top scientists circa 1968 studying the immune system with fantastic cut out paper backgrounds.

Play-doh

Another great Sony Bravia advert. It took three weeks to make this stop-motion animation and 2.4 tonnes of plasticine.

Basil Spence

Slideshow of photographs from the Basil Spence Archive on wallpaper.com (via Sit down man, you’re a bloody tragedy). I knew nothing of Basil Spence until I found some of my Dad’s old architecture photos. There is a flickr group dedicated to the architect too.

Amateur Radio QSL card from Riga, USSR.

• BBC News - Russia marks 50 years of Sputnik
• Ward-O-Matic’s Space Alphabet

I’ve just got back from working in Portugal. There wasn’t much time for sightseeing but, where I could, I photographed the tiles (Azulejo) that adorn the exteriors of many buildings. Azulejo was introduced to Portugal, via Spain, by the Moors in the 15th century. This tradition has continued and I was pleased to find modern tiles around the area of Tavira in the Algarve.

• Full set of images in my Portuguese Tiles set on Flickr
• Azulejos de Portugal group photos on Flickr
• The history of Azulejo from Wikipedia