What I read today June 13

• From Kindergarten Through High School, This Family Has Been Making a Magazine Together for Ten Years, AIGA Eye on Design

• Inside the Beijing Silvermine: A unique archive of everyday China captured through discarded photography, It’s Nice That

• Letter of Recommendation: Do Away with Letters of Recommendations, Gawker
  Letters of recommendation were first introduced by universities in the 1920s to keep Jewish people out of Ivy League schools, and currently they perpetuate the exclusion of applicants with fewer connections, especially those from marginalized backgrounds. How does your organization square this history and these ongoing effects with your stated commitment to diversity initiatives as spelled out on your program’s website?

• Top Gun: Maverick Is Another Military Recruitment Video Disguised as a Movie, Jacobian

• The Daily Heller: Art Chantry Reconsidered in His Own Words, Print Mag

• The Daily Heller: Art Chantry Barks Back, Print Mag
  To understand what I’m doing with the imagery that I encounter in my world, you have to realize that I really consider graphic design as a language—and it’s almost a universal language (despite some cultural differences).