All Things Measured #1
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All Things Measured #1
ISSUE 01 Length 📏 explores the awkward teens of the measuring units we use today, and the fine tuning done over thousands of years, “perfected" (depending on how you define perfect) into the measuring standards of today, and how we misuse them.
Consider that we’ve had the word thermometre a century and a half earlier than the invention of the metre. Even if this inaugural issue is all about length, meter ( metron in Greek – μέτρον) first meant “to measure”, and only after became a dimension.
Shock yourself at the incredibly recent imprecision of things we consider to be done at the highest calibre since forever, such as flight and marathon record setting. And look up at the moon and know that you are at one thumb, or two clicks away to finding out how far it is from you.
All Things Measured is an endlessly curious bi-annual design & art magazine about how we measure things. It explores how we find information through all our available senses and tools, and tells stories of people measuring precisely, imprecisely or without thinking. Each issue takes one type of unit (length, temperature, luminosity), and explores the culture of how we measure and understand it, whether we have a scale in hand or not. The magazine explores a technology that is less about breakthrough or innovation, but more about the people who do the measuring.