TL;DR

• Documenting Austin East Side
• 100 years of Austin’s library
• Design experts honest about AI
• 📚 Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
• The Mountain by the Gorrillaz

As we get ready for deliveries, we’re already seeing ways to do better. An online ordering system. For now if you would like a copy before we launch on July 12, just reply to this email.

I will read it, me , Shunya Carroll.

Keeping in the loop

City of Austin Chronicling East Austin’s history

Photo by Cody Martin on Unsplash

Austin Planning's Historic Preservation Office is using fieldwork, archival research, and community input to document places, traditions, and stories at risk of being lost as the area undergoes rapid growth and transformation.

Austin Library Card competition voting

Central library is celebrating its 100 years with a library card redesign, submitted by locals. Anyone can vote and decide our new library card.

Austin Public Library

Figma’s Config conference keynotes

Holly Herndon

Config is hosting candid conversations about art, marketing, commerce, and most importantly — design. Holly Herndon, a multimedia artist whose work explores our relationship with technology, poses the question: are we the centaur who controls the beast, or the minotaur controlled by it?

The creative director behind Charli XCX's Brat also breaks down his process behind the album cover, starting around the 18-minute mark.