Rob Giampietro started a collection of imagery from the New Yorker fiction pages, 48 so far. Lots of good stuff there.
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Category Archives: Design
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Austin Kleon found the Gerd Arntz Web Archive, dedicated to the work of the German designer:
Otto Neurath had developed a method to communicate complex information on society, economy and politics in simple images. For his ‘Vienna method of visual statistics’, he needed a designer who could make elementary signs, pictograms that could summarize a subject […]
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
How We’re Wrecking Our Feet. It’s the shoes. Old news, but worth hearing again and again.
Foot freedom is a movement in the ultralight hiking community as well. Once you realize that you don’t need to carry 50lbs for a weekend trip, you realize that you can ditch the leather boots and hike with shoes. And […]
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Stefanie Posavec made a diagram of every sentence in On the Road organized by words per sentence. Here are more literary diagrams.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Pecha Kucha Night is an informal gathering of presenters who are limited to 20 slides of 20 seconds each. So, theoretically, it’s a forum with less rambling and more variety in the course of an evening. Lots of cities are having them now. Could be cool. The next Atlanta Pecha Kucha will be next Sunday […]
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Probably a parallel here with the birth of Athena:
[update: photo of a really awesome woodcut removed due to copyright complaint from Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst]
From L’Idee by Frans Masereel.
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
An interview with Dan Roam, author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, which I need to remember to buy:
Today there are great drawing tools in a lot of software packages, and many business people, bless their hearts, are getting better at using them. The problem is the pictures […]
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
In a New York Times article about the death of encyclopedias, a Britannica guy talks about well-designed books as a luxury item. Content might be everywhere, but good design can still expect an appreciative audience:
He envisioned the print volumes living on as a niche, luxury item, with high-quality paper and glossy photographs—similar to the way […]
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
Customizable graph paper—modify the pattern to your liking, and then it makes a PDF for you to print.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
A tour of a 100-square-foot house owned by Jay of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company.
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Monday, March 3, 2008
The offices of bldgs, a pair of Atlanta architects, was featured in a New York Times slideshow and article. It’s a pretty cool space, even though it looks like a bit of a disaster from the outside.
Every season, more paint falls off the walls and more rust develops. It’s like an art installation in there—a […]
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
I like these clothes hangers, simple leather balls tethered to the wall. They couldn’t be that hard to make on my own.
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Monday, February 4, 2008
“It is important to use your hands, this is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator.” -Paul Rand
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
Photos of stuffed animals turned inside out. I think these inverted bears have more personality than the ones you see on the shelf. They should sell them like this. [via michael surtees]
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
I like this bit from an interview with Ellen Lupton, talking about common design pitfalls: “My students avoid printing out their work, to save time and money, but then they are disappointed that it doesn’t look good. I explain to them that everything looks good on the screen, because of the glowing light and the […]
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Chip Kidd interviews Milton Glaser: “My father was a kind of a metaphor for the world, because if you can’t overcome a father’s resistance you’re never going to be able to overcome the world’s resistance.”
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
How to create an extreme overhang with toy bricks [$]. Via BLDGBLOG, where you’ll find some great images of the crazy stacking and some architectural speculation. I’d love to see some crazy buildings tilting over like that.
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Sunday, November 18, 2007
Oboiler has a little picket fence for your baseboards to hide wires and cords. A picket fence isn’t really in my aesthetic, but I like the concept. I might go for something that looked like a bridge or an aqueduct or something. [via unclutterer]
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Friday, November 9, 2007
Just got back from the local Helvetica screening (presented by AIGA-Atlanta, sponsored by the Art Institute of Atlanta). It was good, but not great. Pretty cool for a relative noob like myself to see Helvetica’s role in design over the past half-century. But I wish there was a little more nitty-gritty talk about how it […]
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Most of the online designeurotic t-shirt selling craze gives me nausea, but I like this one.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
“Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.” Ha! [via jb]
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
A very cool article on how the National Parks Service is making more realistic maps. [via anil dash]
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Buckminster Fuller invented the Dymaxion map, which folds and unfolds the Earth in all kinds of ways, so you can arrange the map without any hemispherical hegemony. Here’s a larger image of the Dymaxion map. It’s kind of mind-bending. This version with Antartica and its ocean at the center is particularly cool.
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Reader submissions for album covers for Radiohead’s album, In Rainbows.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
These photos of an oceanside cliffwalk in Chile make me swoon. What a lovely path, beautiful stonework. More photos here in the “recorrido” section.
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Monday, October 8, 2007
A photo collection of the Space Alphabet, a children’s book from the 1960s. “M is for the moon, a dead, dead world.” [via coudal]
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Monday, October 8, 2007
Something I learned today: I was reading this NYT article about fashion, and I discovered that if you double-click a word in an NYT article, it will make a pop-up with a little dictionary/ reference search for you. Doesn’t look like it works on the home page, but that’s pretty cool. Am I the last […]
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
Michael Surtees has shared a short recap and a great collection of photos of Alphabet/City, a typographical tour of New York City led by Tobias Frere-Jones.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Today’s Layer Tennis match between Kevin Cornell and Shaun Inman has been a ton of fun. Volley 9 just went up, I’d say Kevin has the upper hand. Can’t wait to see how it ends. And I wonder if Kevin and Shaun have had any offline trash-talking in the background…
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Someone took fantastic notes from an Edward Tufte seminar last month in Chicago.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Joe Clark has written an impressive, in-depth article that explores of the (mis)use of typography in the Toronto subway system.
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