ICPI Interlock Design Issue 1 2020

1 David R. Smith interlockutor Chateaubriand to Chicken Nuggets A fter 26 years of magazine issues, 104 to be exact, we are saying see you later. Not good-bye, but we hope to see you later on www.icpi.org . This change is an effort to further make the ICPI website the focus for practically all ICPI/ industry news, contractor education, and designer resources. We will be changing to shorter formats of singular case studies and project articles to place on the ICPI website, or with other digital and print publications. From a personal perspective, the Internet is increasingly driving information delivery and not paper. This is good and bad. The good part is inexpensive, easy digital access for publishers and readers. The bad part is a prerequisite Internet connection and TMI. Internet connectivity is almost, but still not quite ubiquitous. There’s TMI such that reading magazines has morphed into scanning Internet articles. Hence our move to chicken nugget-sized information of discrete articles and videos on the ICPI website rather than a more leisurely four-course meal of articles in this magazine. As editor since 1994, I’ve enjoyed being your main chef. Some great sous chefs have helped. Each magazine issue had a different menu with appetizer, first course, main course, dessert and sometimes an aperitif. The content ranged from a salad, occasional chateaubriand, and then a chocolate souffle. A few really meaty issues came with decent wine. We hope you enjoyed the range of subjects, some technical and some more poetic and metaphorical. That’s been the beauty of this effort: writing and illustrating segmental concrete pavement intersects and integrates these places. That’s what makes a good restaurant as well. Au revoir à nos fidèles lecteurs, David Paving slabs serve as an artist’s canvas in Ülm, Germany. The text under the chalk images reads, “Thank you for your appreciation.”