The Digital Pigeon is a weekly email-newsletter containing the best of what the internet has to offer: links! Every Sunday, a collection of somewhat-design-related links are delivered to subscribers’ inboxes.
The project began as a way to document my personal internet wanderings. People tend to have “nostalgia boxes” for physical mementos – concert tickets, birthday cards, boarding passes. But the internet is a hard place to hoard things in a meaningful way. At any given time, I have multiple Safari windows open, each with at least a dozen tabs. Recognizing this as an unsustainable practice, I began to collect all the links and email them to myself each day. But I ended up with endless lists of unfiltered links in my inbox. However, I liked the temporal aspect of emailing myself a collection; I could identify where I was digging around on the internet at certain times. If I was emailing these links to myself, I thought my friends might like them as well. Thus, The Digital Pigeon was born. Each week, I curate my endless links down to 5 or 6 and send them back out into the internet.
Past issues have contained an essay about “What Screens Want” by Frank Chimero, an animated data visualization of Darwin’s Origin of Species editions over time, a typographic analysis of the movie Moon, among other design snippets.
The sixth edition is about to go out this weekend and you can subscribe here.
