April 2011
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Lets all quit our jobs, cover ourselves in paint...
tUnE-yArD - Bizness
That’s what their latest video has made me want to do, and after watching it, could you really blame me? Seriously, I’ll grab some paint and you can get the paper flowers together. 3:40 pure, unadulterated joy.
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Virginia Woolf. Fonts. Music.
FF Spinoza — A nice looking new type family designed by New York-based art director Max Phillips:
With the goal of readability in mind, Phillips named the typeface after 17th century rationalist and lens-grinder Baruch Spinoza, a man whose job it was to help people see clearly.
The family is meant as an elegant workhorse, a classic text family with just enough individual character to...
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Google Earth's Spaghetti Art
Clement Valla has captured some breath taking screen shots of sagging spans from Google Earth. There is no photoshop trickery, instead the veins of road are projected onto topographic terrain. They arch and bend, pressing and cleaving to the earth’s gullet.
According to Valla’s artist’s statement: “inherent contradictions and absurd situations result from the very structure of the...
Intuition & Design through the lens of David...
Pausing at an image of two garage doors, Carson took a moment to discuss how we react to different types of fonts. Both garage doors were identical in color, shape, and design. Each was a narrow, one-car garage door and was painted to resemble a pack of Marlboro reds turned upside down, minus all the text. The first door’s “no parking” letters were little shiny black...
“Harrowdown Hill” / I feel me slipping in and...
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Frank Chimero: Nighthawks →
There’s a small print of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks sitting hidden in a drawer of my desk. I pull it out every once in a while and have a look. Everyone’s familiar with Nighthawks, whether they know it or not. Few pieces of art achieve this level of recognition with a mass audience, few have the…
