Andrew Blum
As a youth in summer camp, Andrew Blum sailed Lasers: small, fast, wildly
popular sailboats. On page 48, Blum, now the father of two young sailors,
focuses on the history of this classic craft and the life of 90-year-old Bruce
Kirby, the Canada-born designer who built the first Laser in 1970. The story—technical
but deeply human—was a natural fit for Blum, whose first book, Tubes, told the tale of
the physical structure of the internet and the people who constructed it. This June will
mark the debut of his second book, The Weather Machine, which peers into the complex
systems that bring the morning forecast to our phones, digital assistants, and radio DJs.
While he sees technical explanations like these as a public service, he admits that a lot
of journalism for him “is just fulfilling childhood fascination.”Russ Smith
Russ Smith’s favorite part of
the magazine-making process is
brainstorming. “We could do any
story a million different ways,” he says, but
every visual needs to be “fun and informa-
tive.” As the design director for Bonnier
Corporation’s Popular Science, Saveur,
Field & Stream, and Outdoor Life, he grap-
ples with art decisions small and big, from
identifying the right font for a fishing story
to commissioning a creative illustration to
represent carbon-emissions data—depicted
on page 18 as a tall layer cake of trees.CONTRIBUTORS
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Cristiana Couceiro
Cristiana Couceiro mixes shapes,
streaks of color, and photographs
to create something unexpected.
The Portuguese artist’s passion for assem-
bling collages began early. “Cutting pieces of
paper from old newspapers and magazines
and telling a brand-new story with glue was
a joy while growing up,” she says; old copies of
Popular Science have even provided fodder.
Now, the de signer’s works enhance glossy
magazines. On page 19 she captures the
perils of teleportation by inserting chaotic
geometry onto a human image. COURTESYCONTRIBUTORS