During this explosive time in world history, as survival is on the brink, and we, like the dinosaurs, are going about our daily routines, just waiting for the meteorite to send us into oblivion, there is a lot to be thankful for. There are millennia of history that have been handed down—fact and fiction that comprise a collective understanding of who we are, what we’ve accomplished and where we’re heading.
Remo Giuffré—the Australia-based creative director, entrepreneur and founder of REMO and the General Thinking Network—has been triangulating the trivial and consequential parts of life. Accordingly, he has produced a record of it—a biannual book series dubbed REMORANDOM that features 90 snack-sized stories, ideas and observations designed to inform, entertain and inspire a global community of curious readers. The content is a curated mix that draws on a diverse range of topics: culture, design, history, ideas, nature, people, science. Uncommon knowledge. Brain candy. Everything interesting. Collectible.
REMORANDOM, writes Giuffré, “has been marinating for a long time.” His guidelines? Content must address: How did the thing come into being? Who was responsible for its development? What’s their story? In the final analysis, this is a series of fun facts and uncommon knowledge that is not a catalog of products but rather what Giuffré ungrammatically calls “catalogs of interesting.”
