I'll probably update this in the future, when I've finished my Masters, but for now... Developing portfolio of works at makedrawsleep and other news of exhibitions and general making-related culture on the unit 23 blog
Also, everything I favoured on the Guardian app, part 1 of 2 (sorry for the formatting)...
Sometimes there's only enough information to trigger your instincts: I think that the concise history of dress will be well worth checking out, but I couldn't tell you why...
The only rationalisation is that I really enjoyed Judith Clark's article in the 'Pattern' issue of haecceity papers.
Gerrit van Bakel - on the recommendation of Theo Jansen, whose wonderful machines I'm currently reading about. Bakel's constructions are reminiscent of the devices conceived at the Bartlett, but years before and almost in isolation (not much of his work has been published in English).