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Library and archive culture
"an eclectic collection of images and documents of the library, archive, and information management profession"
history  posters  graphics  docspopuli  documents  images  humor  information  informationmanagement  archives  libraries  library  politics  culture  from delicious
8 weeks ago by robertogreco
MAPS OF FICTIONAL WORLDS
“When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved…came with maps and glossaries and timelines—books like Lord Of The Rings, Dune, The Chronicles Of Narnia. I imagined that’s what being a writer was: You invented a world, and you did it in a very detailed way, and you told stories that were set in that world.”
—Michael Chabon…

My undergrad thesis argued that world-building wasn’t just for fantasy & sci-fi writers—every tale has a setting, every tale creates a world in the reader’s mind—& it explored ways that drawing that world (visual thinking!) can lead to better fiction.

Some of my favorite “lit’ry” books are accompanied by maps.

[examples]

Some writers use previously-made maps to help create their fiction: Melville used whaling charts, Joyce used Ordnance surveys of Dublin, & Pynchon used aerial maps.

Poking around the ‘net I found maps for Faulkner’s books, Treasure Island, and of course, Tolkien…"

[See also the comments.]
fictionalmaps  fictionalworlds  books  literature  literarymaps  storytelling  reference  graphics  writing  michaelchabon  2008  visualthinking  worldbuilding  cartography  mapping  visualization  fiction  maps  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Lessons from the paperback revolution - Salon.com
"…can’t help but imagine how Agel & Fiore would go about packaging a book today. So much about culture has turned porous; surely the range of multimedia possibilities would excite them to no end, resulting in books as radical as ones they produced over 40 years ago. Perhaps they would film a reality TV show based on the production of a book, inviting viewers to vote on book’s content, format, design, & title as an author, designer, & editor tried to work under such circumstances in a studio that also served as their living quarters?

Whatever the result of working w/ today’s tools, I’m sure they would not deviate from what had been their primary focus: the reader. Schnapp & Michaels locate common ground all these experimental paperbacks share in how they empower readers: “Even if this book is ‘by’ a major thinker, you will fill in the blanks, you connect the dots, you navigate the book forward or backward to find the tasty tidbits; look for the patterns, ideas, & story lines yourself."
marketing  1967  graphicdesign  graphics  design  realitytv  infromations  carlsagan  ideas  communication  jeromeagel  buckminsterfuller  electricinformationage  media  print  doubleday  pocketbooks  jacquelinesusann  bernardgeis  jeffreyschnapp  adammichaels  quentinfiore  marshallmcluhan  books  2012 
january 2012 by robertogreco
The Electric Information Age Book (out in January 2012)
"…excavation of moment from e-Book’s prehistory & metabook on cut-&-paste genre of original paperbacks…explores…60-70s when former backstage players—designers, graphic artists, editors, “coordinators,” & “producers”—stepped into spotlight to create a set of exceptional paperback books…period begins in 1966 when Jerome Agel & Quentin Fiore, in collaboration w/ Marshall McLuhan, first developed The Medium Is the Massage into “an inventory of effects”…continues to 1975, publication year of Other Worlds, Agel’s collaboration w/…Carl Sagan. Graphic designers such as Fiore employed a variety of radical techniques—verbal visual collages & other typographic pyrotechnics—…as important to content as the text. Aimed squarely at young media-savvy consumers of “Electric Information Age,” these small, inexpensive paperbacks brought the ideas of contemporary thinkers to mass audiences & established a distinctive new graphics-rich, montage-based genre of bookmaking that still resonates loudly today."
adammichaels  2011  2012  text  graphicdesign  graphics  graphicarts  metabooks  otherworlds  paperbacks  ideas  bookmaking  projectideas  media  design  electricinformationage  jeromeagel  quentinfiore  carlsagan  jeffreyschnapp  1970s  1960s  history  marshallmcluhan  themediumisthemassage  toread  books  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
CSA / Flat File
"The CSA Flat File features current projects from CSA Images, including the daily feature Paper Cuts, a full-bleed source of printed inspiration curated from the millions of images that make up the CSA archives. Paper Cuts span the history of design and preserve the legacy of ink on paper in the digital age."
design  graphics  CSA  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Katie Lewis
"My current work traces experiences of the body through methodical systems of documentation, investigating chaos, control, accumulation and deterioration. The artificially rigid organization of my materials alludes to control-- of the individual body as an institutional domain, and of irrational experience as a manageable, concrete set of events. My choice to use the body as a starting point aims to give visual form to physical sensations that are invisible to the eye and medical imaging, and only exist in the subjecetive realm. I collect data through daily documentation processes, and then generate numerous systems to allow the information to exist in a material form. I abstract and quantify the data in order to give authority and agency to subjective experiences.<br />
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The work alludes to the body in certain pieces, through the text or a particular material, but the reference remains abstracted…"<br />
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[And from her resume; "1997-98 Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile"]
katielewis  art  visualization  data  graphics  design  chile  artists  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Paper.js
"Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface."<br />
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[via: http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/7095795141/q-bertify-your-images-with-this-example-of ]
design  web  visualization  vector  graphics  html5  bezier  paperjs  javascript  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
eye | feature : All you need is love: pictures, words and worship [Great piece on Sister Corita Kent]
"Corita’s cultural contribution spanned several decades. Although she described herself as an artist rather than a design professional, her 1960s work spanned both fields. Graphic strategies such as lettering and layout were central to her artistic voice. At the same time, she had no qualms about accepting commissions for magazine covers, book jackets, album sleeves, ads and posters, although even here she should be seen less as a jobbing designer than as an artist with a distinctive and easily recognisable graphic sensibility. As Harvey Cox said, “The world of signs and sales slogans and plastic containers was not, for her, an empty wasteland. It was the dough out of which she baked the bread of life.” 12 At its best, her work proposed a symbolic template that blurred the boundaries between art, design and communication, between a life of worship and the everyday life of her time."
sistercorita  art  vernacular  life  everyday  glvo  design  communication  graphicdesign  graphics  typography  advertising  signs  symbols  via:britta  teaching  printmaking  serigraphs  accessibility  urban  urbanism  decontextualization  photography  noticing  seeing  seeingtheworld  fieldtrips  unschooling  deschooling  education  immaculateheartcollege  eames  viewfinders  process  julieault  2000  1960s  martinbeck  society  perspective  activism  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
The Most Beautiful Magazine You Probably Haven't Heard Of - Steven Heller - Life - The Atlantic
"Tod Lippy is the best magazine art director and cover designer who was never trained for the job. And he's more—editor, curator, filmmaker. What he does so well is conceive and publish, and design, his own magazine, on his own terms for his own pleasure, and under his own steam. Esopus magazine started in 2003 and is now up to issue number 16. It is a foundation-funded, advertising-free, art, literature, and culture bi-annual that employs the most ambitious special printing effects being done today—and each issue also contains a music CD, which Lippy produces.<br />
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Esopus is more than the proverbial labor of love. It stands along with Dave Eggers' McSweeney's for its driving cultural significance. But what I am most interested in are the covers."
art  magazines  design  graphicdesign  graphics  literature  toread  todlippy  onemanshows  artdirection  culture  2011  music  sound  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
HORT | better taste than sorry.
"Even the word “HORT” is great. It’s a German word for an after school care center. Why did they choose it?

“HORT – a direct translation of the studio’s mission. A creative playground. A place where ‘work and play’ can be said in the same sentence. An unconventional working environment. Once a household name in the music industry. Now, a multi-disciplinary creative hub. Not just a studio space, but an institution devoted to making ideas come to life. A place to learn, a place to grow, and a place that is still growing. Not a client execution tool. HORT has been known to draw inspiration from things other than design.”"

[Another post on Hort from the same blog: http://bettertastethansorry.com/2009/11/eike-konig-everyday-is-like-christmas/ ]

[And look at this, the video that started this whole Hort binge is also on the blog: http://bettertastethansorry.com/2011/03/a-tribute-to-eike-konig/ ]
hort  eikekönig  play  learning  studioclassroom  lcproject  design  education  playgrounds  unschooling  deschooling  graphics  graphicdesign  teaching  tcsnmy  openstudio  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  learningplaces  learningenvironments  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
12 Paradoxes of Graphic Design | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
"These 12 graphic design paradoxes were designed and written by Tobias Bergdahl and it's great advice for young graphic designers out there. Each piece has it's own paradox followed by an important message."
via:lukeneff  design  paradox  outsiders  graphics  graphicdesign  tobiasbergdahl  clients  education  work  howwework  writing  verbalskills  ideas  professionalism  perspective  self-promotion  understanding  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Under the hood of the Cognitive Cities Conference. – Your Neighbours
"The logo can be interpreted in many ways, and that is exactly what the conference is all about. Some interpret the C as a map of a city, others see it has a circuit board, or even a collection of Lego blocks. Whatever you see in it, the logo reflects a certain playfulness and level of depth that you’ll also see at the event itself. All the shapes in the “C” are based on a grid which has similar proportions to the New York City Grid Plan. The colors of the logo are randomly generated from a hand picked color palette. Through the use of Scriptographer, we were able to generate many different color combinations that could be used for different purposes. All the colors work on both black and white backgrounds. The type we used for the logo is Forza, a font that was originally commissioned by Wired. Coincidentally, the moderator of the Cognitive Cities conference is Editor at Large of Wired."
cocities  cognitivecities  design  yourneighborhood  graphics  graphicdesign  logos  evolvinglogos  colors  map  mapping  cities  2011  forza  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
NounProject
"Mission: “sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world's visual language”<br />
The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way. Here is our pledge to you:<br />
FREE: The symbols on this site are and always will remain free. We believe symbols can not be effectively shared with the world if they are not free<br />
SIMPLE: Everyone like simplicity. We want you to be able to come to our site and effortlessly find and obtain what you are looking for. Simple as that.<br />
FUN: We think a language that can be understood by all cultures and people is a pretty amazing thing. We also think our symbols and the objects or ideas they represent are works of art worth celebrating.<br />
HIGHEST QUALITY: We get excited about things like scale, proportion, and shape. We are committed to design and quality in everything we do."
icons  design  free  graphics  symbols  semiotics  search  archives  nouns  classideas  images  visuallanguage  language  communication  simplicity  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Frog Round
"What a queer bird the frog are:<br />
When he sit he stand (almost);<br />
When he walk he fly (almost);<br />
When he talk he cry (almost);<br />
He ain't got no sense (hardly);<br />
He ain't got no tail, either (hardly);<br />
He sit on what he ain't got (hardly)."
music  graphics  audio  animation  via:britta  poetry  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Kid Pix: The Early Years
"One day in 1988 while I was using MacPaint, the wonderful paint program that came with the Macintosh, my 3-year-old son Ben asked to try using the program. I was surprised at how quickly he got the knack of using the mouse and how easily he was able to select tools. The problem was that he didn't have total control of the mouse and would occasionally (like every five minutes or so) pull down a menu and bring up a dialog box that he couldn't dismiss without being able to read. Everything was fine as long as I was in the room, but if I stepped out for a few minutes I would come back and find Ben kicking on the floor in frustration. This was not what I had in mind for his introduction to the computer."
via:britta  craighickman  kidpix  evergreenstatecollege  reedcollege  computers  childhood  parenting  programming  software  edtech  education  mac  history  drawing  graphics  art  nostalgia  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Lifework - Herman Miller ["Ideal Live/Work Space: Graphic Designer Juliette Bellocq"]
"This interview with Juliette Bellocq is the fourth in the BROODWORK IdealLive/Work Space series. Her studio, Handbuilt specializes in work for cultural, educational and non-profit organizations. In addition, Juliette teaches at Otis College of Art and Design, is part of Project Food LA, a collective seeking to propose alternative nutrition choices to underprivileged communities. Juliette is also a member of BROODWORK, a collective focusing on the relationship between creative practice and family life."
broodwork  juliettebellocq  losangeles  glvo  families  design  graphics  creativity  parenting  handbuilt  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
After the City, This : handbuilt
"This text on urbanism, real estate development and architecture borrows the structure of a screenplay to introduce the reader to the city of Los Angeles. Literally and graphically, this 160-page pamphlet blurs the lines between novel, essay, screenplay and photographic report. The fourth of a series produced by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, this publication is aimed at an audience of designers, architects, urbanists and anyone interested in the development of Los Angeles."
handbuilt  losangeles  cities  urban  urbanism  text  design  graphics  architecture  development  screenplays  pamphlets  lafaud  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Seed Booklet : handbuilt
"This small book introduces the story & philosophy of a charter school dedicated to children of immigrant native families. It is designed with a combination of sacred imagery, hand-drawing, and computer generated diagrams. For this extremely low budget book we used newsprint paper and basic black and white printing."
lcproject  schools  printing  handbuilt  design  graphics  papernet  schooldesign  losangeles  learning  education  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Free Images on French - French Paper - America's family-run paper mill
"CSA Images free when printed on French Paper: Restrictions Apply<br />
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This vast selection of rights managed black & white images are perfect for solid-color offset, letterpress, or silkscreen printing. Free CSA High Resolution Tiff Images capture the authenticity and detail of hand-drawn illustration and the beautifully tactile look of ink printed on paper, allowing you to keep the printing simple and let French paper provide the color."
drawing  illustration  illustrations  graphicdesign  images  design  graphics  diy  icons  frenchpaper  paper  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Frank Chimero — Anonymous asked: What advice would you give to a graphic design student? [This is not just for graphic design students.] [Book list: http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/993864785/you-put-together-the-remarkable-text-playlist-along]
"Look people in the eyes when you are talking or listening to them. The best teachers are the ones who treat their classrooms like a workplace, & the worst are ones who treat their classroom like a classroom as we’ve come to expect it… Libraries are a good place. The books are free there, & it smells great… beat them by being more thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is free & burns on time & empathy… The best communicators are gift-givers… Don’t become dependent on having other people pull it out of you while you’re in school. If you do, you’re hosed once you graduate. Keep two books on your nightstand at all times: one fiction, one non-fiction… Buy lightly used. Patina is a pretty word & beautiful concept… Learn to write, & not school-style writing… Most important things happen at a table. Food, friends, discussion, ideas, work, peace talks & war plans. It is okay to romanticize things a little bit every now & then: it gives you hope… Everyone is just making it up as they go along."
advice  design  education  frankchimero  empathy  thoughtfulness  patina  beausage  teaching  learning  interestingness  libraries  books  work  life  careers  glvo  tcsnmy  writing  craft  whatmatters  meaning  mindfulness  hope  truth  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  gifts  self-directed  self-education  relationships  discipline  graphics  graphicdesign  tools  wisdom  toshare  topost  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Frank Chimero - Lazy Hammer [Too much to quote here. Read the whole thing. Don't miss Franks memory from childhood that opens and closes the essay.]
"maybe we should be risky. Many designers waste an opportunity to make new, meaningful things by instead letting someone else pretend for them and making work that is overly referential. Instead of that, designers can use their skills to collaborate with others to create new things. We can pick up that dinosaur toy and play with it a bit instead of the He-Man toy.

Rather than spin our wheels because we’re left without content, we should partner with others who have a message but not the savvy to properly communicate it. It’s combustion through collaboration…

Designers are excellent producers. We do well to steer and hone other people’s creative impulses, we can fine-polish ideas, and craft successful ways to communicate and tell stories. So, I’d say the next time you’ve got the impulse to make something but don’t have a message or story of your own, consider collaboration."
interestingness  content  frankchimero  collaboration  creativity  storytelling  childhood  toys  play  memory  meaning  imagination  tcsnmy  classideas  writing  clients  personalwork  craft  meta-content  fanart  culture  risk  risktaking  advice  design  message  thewhy  dangermouse  grayalbum  music  brianburton  thinking  source  sourcematerial  invention  crosspollination  crossmedia  sharing  anthropology  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  graphics  communication  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
bruketa & zinic: kvarner visual identity
"the new visual identity for kvarner county tourism office has been developed by advertising agency bruketa & zinic. throughout history, kvarner located in croatia has been known as an intersection of four transport routes. according to bruketa & zinic, the very name kvarner evokes this quadrant, navigational spatial orientation. this is why the source of this visual identity proposal begins with the familiar symbol of the wind rose, which also includes references to navigation, four-sided spatial orientation and wind direction. this motif is then divided into simple geometrical visual elements, their simple forms and colors creating a kind of 'toolbox' for further development of the visual identity of the kvarner region and each one of its individual parts."
relationships  evolvinglogos  design  identity  graphics  logos  branding  croatia  spatial  navigation  geometry  visual 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Cacoo - Create diagrams online Real time collaboration
"Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge."
cacoo  collaboration  charts  flowcharts  free  webservice  mindmap  mockup  drawing  communication  diagrams  graphics  onlinetoolkit  wireframes  webdesign  tools  design  webapp 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Fontself [via: http://twitter.com/nicolasnova/status/17717212062]
"Did you ever wish you could send a messages that would reflect you mood or let you express the more creative side of your personality?
fonts  generator  handmade  handwriting  interactive  graphics  typography  type  drawing  free  software  tools  webdesign 
july 2010 by robertogreco
"yeah thats not what I was looking for at all."
"I opened the screen door yesterday and my cat got out and has been missing since then so I was wondering if you are not to busy you could make a poster for me. It has to be A4 and I will photocopy it and put it around my suburb this afternoon." [Humrous fictional discussion between graphics designer and client ensues, with images of the proposed designs along the way.]
via:lukeneff  humor  design  graphics  cats  posters  clients  email  lostpets 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Hyper Island
"Hyper Island started in 1995 when Jonathan Briggs, David Erixon and Lars Lundh met during a project involving a CD-rom production. They soon realized the increasing need of a different kind of education involving industry based learning, for the growing new media industry. The first long term program at Hyper Island started in Karlskrona 1996 with 32 students.
sweden  stockholm  schools  technology  graphics  advertising  agency  education  portfolio  webdesign  media  interaction  art  design  lcproject  tcsnmy  training  iphone  applications  development 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Locals and Tourists - a set on Flickr
"Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true. Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in piaces that tourists don't visit.
mapping  maps  geotagging  geography  flickr  infographics  information  visualization  tourists  tourism  photography  cities  infographic  culture  data  density  design  graphics  travel  experience 
june 2010 by robertogreco
as-built on the pitch – mammoth // building nothing out of something
"Just in time for the World Cup, English architect-turned-artist David Marsh has executed a fantastic series of drawings based on England’s (sole) World Cup finals appearance, their 4-2 victory over West Germany in 1966. Using archival footage played back at quarter- and half-speed in combination with a coordinate system derived from the markings on the pitch, Marsh traced the movements of each of the twenty-two players involved in the game (substitutions were not allowed in the World Cup until 1970) onto sheets of trace."
sports  football  occer  worldcup  diagrams  graphics  infographics  drawings  data 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Environmental Performance Index 2010: Home
"The 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 163 countries on 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories covering both environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. These indicators provide a gauge at a national government scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals."
climate  climatechange  conservation  sustainability  pollution  environment  data  performance  measurement  maps  statistics  research  countries  graphics  rankings 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Por Amor a la Bandera
"Mucho se ha debatido acerca del nuevo logo del Gobierno de Chile. Muy pocas opiniones están a favor del mismo. Si crees que el nuevo logo de Chile no te representa o si derechamente crees que es feo, te invitamos a hacer algo al respecto: cambiarlo. Porque para criticar, cualquiera critica. Pero muy pocos agarran el lápiz (o el Mouse) y se ponen a proponer alternativas. Si de verdad sientes amor por la bandera, exprésalo con lo que tienes dentro y sabes hacer. Pon manos a la obra, sácate las ganas de mostrar lo que sientes del nuevo logo de gobierno, pero de una forma proactiva y creativa.
chile  government  logos  branding  graphics  design 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Ask H&FJ: Four Ways to Mix Fonts
"Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ's Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary."
typography  fonts  graphicdesign  graphics  howto 
march 2010 by robertogreco
ONull - Vector Generator
"ONull is an image based Vector Generator for Mac OSX. It allows the user to convert images into rasterized vector graphics. This tool was developed to give graphic designers the ability to transform small images from the Internet into printable and editable graphics.
onull  raster  vectors  visualization  macosx  osx  mac  converter  design  freeware  generator  processing  java  via:migurski  images  illustrator  graphics  software  pdf  photography 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Reanimation Library - About
"The Reanimation Library is a small, independent library based in Brooklyn. It is a collection of books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation. Outdated and discarded, they have been culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles across the country and given new life as resource material for artists, writers, and other cultural archeologists."
reanimationlibrary  brooklyn  vintage  nyc  graphics  photography  books  culture  art  design  animation  libraries  inspiration  ephemera  via:britta 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Perlin Noise
"Many people have used random number generators in their programs to create unpredictability, make the motion and behavior of objects appear more natural, or generate textures. Random number generators certainly have their uses, but at times their output can be too harsh to appear natural. This article will present a function which has a very wide range of uses, more than I can think of, but basically anywhere where you need something to look natural in origin. What's more it's output can easily be tailored to suit your needs."
animation  mathematics  processing  algorithms  math  graphics  perlinnoise  random  howto  programming  visualization  software  design  gamedev  texture  noise  tutorial  via:robinsloan 
february 2010 by robertogreco
The making of the NYT’s Netflix graphic – The Society for News Design
"One of The Times’ recent graphics, “A Peek Into Netflix Queues,” ended up being one of our more popular graphics of the past few months. (A good roundup of what people wrote is here). Since then, there have been a few questions about the how the graphic was made and Tyson Evans, a friend and colleague, thought it might interest SND members. (I bother Tyson with questions about CSS and Ruby pretty regularly, so I owe him a few favors.)"
visualization  howto  infographics  nytimes  gis  maps  design  information  mapping  netflix  journalism  graphics  interactive  data 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Climate Change: A Consensus Among Scientists? | Information Is Beautiful
"Off the back of the recent Climate Skeptics vs The Consensus image, we were curious how many scientists might make up ‘The Consensus’.
globalwarming  virtualization  infographic  climatechange  illustration  statistics  graphics  politics  science  us  climate 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Comicbrush
"Create and share a comic using any combination of your own drawings,
comics  online  onlinetoolkit  tcsnmy  tools  comicbrush  graphics  glvo 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Device Gallery
"The Device Gallery exhibits work that embraces the spirit of invention and ingenuity. Drawn to the juxtaposition between the classical and the unusual, the gallery features work bound by artistry and skill, rather than genre or medium. Established by Gregory and Amy Brotherton, in San Diego, California, whose combined 35 years of experience in fine and commercial art brings a unique perspective to The Device Gallery. A self-taught fine artist, Greg has spent the past 20 years honing his skills as a sculptor while forging a successful and award winning career as a commercial artist in the film industry. Amy’s extensive experience in event planning, fundraising and public relations has provided her the opportunity to work with some of the most celebrated and distinguished artists, writers and filmmakers of our time"
sandiego  galleries  graphicdesign  steampunk  fantasy  futurism  graphics  sculpture  art  lowbrow  illustrator  glvo  barriologan 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Mule Design Studio's Blog: Philadelphia, my love.
"There are times when the solution to the problem is such a ridiculous slam dunk that cleverness only gets in the way of good work."
problemsolving  cleverness  simplicity  design  graphics  graphicdesign  philadelphia 
december 2009 by robertogreco
The Blueprints, reference image database, with more than 37000 blueprints, templates, 3/4/5-views and drawings
"Cars (11661), Motorcycles (1765), Trucks (2087), Buses (417), Ships (6584), Trains (588), WW1 Airplanes (358), WW2 Airplanes (1968), Modern Airplanes (4919), Tanks (3455), Weapons (405), Science Fiction (1947), Humans (116), Phones (517), Miscelaeneous (249)"
blueprints  database  3d  archive  drawings  illustration  graphicdesign  graphics  reference  architecture  art  drawing  design  blender  vector  lightwave  cg  stock  models  images  free  via:kottke 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Texture maps of Earth and Planets
"Here are some of my planetary texture maps that I've collected over the years. It has taken me lots of time to find and make these maps, but I'm providing them here for your modelling pleasure. They are available in a usable size compared to other places on the web. In fact, with the size of
via:reas  maps  mapping  photography  geography  space  earth  planets  nasa  images  textures  modeling  graphics  moon  mars  science  elevation 
july 2009 by robertogreco
the show: 07-14-06 - zefrank [via: http://schulzeandwebb.com/2009/scope/slides/?p=41]
"Over the last 20 years...cost of tools related to the authorship of media has plummeted. For very little money, anyone can create & distribute things like newsletters, videos, or bad-ass tunes about "ugly." Suddenly consumers are learning the language of these authorship tools. The fact that tons of people know names of fonts like Helvetica is weird! & when people start learning something new, they perceive the world around them differently. If you start learning how to play the guitar, suddenly the guitar stands out in all the music you listen to...throughout most of the history of movies, the audience didn't really understand what a craft editing was. Now, as more & more people have access to things like iMovie, they begin to understand the manipulative power of editing. Watching reality TV almost becomes like a game as you try to second-guess how the editor is trying to manipulate you."
zefrank  design  learning  participatory  authorship  editing  understanding  culture  society  change  democratization  music  video  film  myspace  graphics  fonts  ugly  medialiteracy  tools 
june 2009 by robertogreco
LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine
"LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game engine, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua.
gameengine  gamedev  games  gaming  graphics  free  opensource  coding  linux  lua  programming  tcsnmy  mac  osx  windows  edg 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Survey : Thumb is directed by Luke Bulman & Jessica Young
"Thumb is a Brooklyn-based graphic design office that works on public, private, and self-initiated projects, usually in the areas of architecture, art, design, and culture.
design  architecture  us  graphics  identity  nyc  typography  brooklyn  agency  graphic  studio  portfolio  graphicdesign  thumb  glvo  print  books  posters  houston  rice 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Archinect : Features : Working out of the Box: Thumb [designed the "Ring Roads of the World" poster, "Ryan McGinness Works" and "Everything Must Move" books]
"Robert Walters...really inspiring...died-in-the-wool Modernist...survey course...focused a lot on 20th century...presented architecture in larger context of design & culture...looked at Bauhaus typography, Futurist manifestoes, Beuys' sculpture alongside the built work of Mies, Marinetti's drawings & projects like Berlin Free University...very visual approach with side-by-side slide comparisons...sort of broad thinking appealed to me...Studio courses & work culture they promoted, really appealed to me too...long hours in studio...M Arch degree...very strong conceptual bent to Rice...influence of Bruce Mau & Sanford Kwinter who collaborated at Rice for 2-3 years...involvement in school was a sort of experiment to see how design thinking could dismantle & reassemble typical seminar/studio formats. Sometimes these experiments were more/less successful, but there was a huge amount of risk-taking. I still like the idea "nothing ventured, nothing gained" that they worked under..."
robertwalters  thumb  rice  design  graphics  books  brucemau  sanfordkwinter  futurists  typography  josephbeuys  bauhaus  modernism  interdisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  risktaking  architecture  bookdesign  posters  miesvanderrohe  marinetti  berlinfreeuniversity 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Graphic Journey Blog: From Caveman to Spray Can
"And so we come to the end of our little journey together, not really a destination, but more of a visual stopping point. This is another example of man’s expression on a wall and very much part of our everyday visual experience...."
via:timo  graphicdesign  art  history  graphics  design  learning 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Aviary - Raven
"Use Raven to create fully scalable vector art appropriate for logos or tee shirt designs. You won't find a similar tool on the web."
illustrator  raven  aviary  webapp  drawing  illustration  graphics  online  vector  design  onlinetoolkit  webservice  software 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Aviary - Raven
"Use Raven to create fully scalable vector art appropriate for logos or tee shirt designs. You won't find a similar tool on the web."
illustrator  raven  aviary  webapp  drawing  illustration  graphics  online  vector  design  onlinetoolkit  webservice  software 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering
" Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file. The majority of these points are established tradition, sprinkled with modern trends and a bit of my own opinion having lettered professionally for a few years now. The majority of these ideas have been established by Marvel and DC, but opinions vary from editor to editor, even within the same company. I'm often asked to bend or break these rules based on what "feels" best, or more likely, the space constraints within a panel.
comics  writing  typography  convention  graphics  style  howto  blambot 
february 2009 by robertogreco
LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine
"LÖVE is an unquestionably awesome 2D game engine, which allows rapid game development and prototyping in Lua. This project is constantly evolving and changes come and go, sometimes initiated by us and sometimes by the recommendations of others. If you have an idea on how to make the game engine better, it is greatly desired that you contact us and let us know what you think."
design  education  games  software  videogames  programming  edg  coding  osx  gaming  processing  windows  linux  graphics  opensource  mac  development  gamedev  2d  lua 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Flopdoodle Store: Bispop Gallery
"The official retail location for all TB stuff is located in beautiful Old Town Pasadena, CA. The shop is located inside of the Johnson Motors Store. Bispop Gallery features everything from original artwork to store exclusive items (that means you can't get them anywhere else)." See also: http://www.timbiskup.com/photos/Bispop/Bispop.html
toys  galleries  pasadena  glvo  losangeles  art  graphics 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama…
"We’ve generated what we call the Personal Annual Report for all our users. It’s a unique-to-you PDF of data, visualisations and factoids about your travel in 2008, that we’re delivering over the next week via email to every Dopplr user who travelled in 2008.
dopplr  infographics  data  statistics  visualization  barackobama  2008  politics  maps  graphics  personalinformatics  travel  mapping  carbon  design 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Wolfram Blog : The Incredible Convenience of Mathematica Image Processing
"Mathematica 7 adds a suite of image processing functions from trivial to highly sophisticated. To apply them to images, you don’t need to use any form of import command or file name references. Just type the command you want to use, then drag and drop the image from your desktop or browser right into the input line.
mathematica  imageprocessing  images  photoshop  tutorial  visualization  graphics 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Digital Pictures Interactive » Blog Archive » Papervision - Augmented Reality
"Using a webcam and flash, we’ve taken our Papervision character from the desktop to the desk. A new and exciting way to interact with your flash content. The possibilities are wide open. Try it for yourself below: 1. Download and print this symbol 2. Allow flash access to your webcam below when it asks (or right click flash and select settings). 3. Point your webcam at the printed symbol, and the character will appear on top."
visualization  graphics  augmentedreality  tracking  3d  interactive  fun  digital  animation  interface  video  webcam  papervision3d  papervision 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Kunst-Formen der Natur, by Ernst Haeckel - a set on Flickr
"Kunst-Formen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), by Ernst Haeckel, 1898. This is a wonderful book, in the public domain, which features all sorts of illustrations of the natural world. If you're doing some research for organic shapes, this book is a nice place to start.
design  art  culture  science  graphics  biology  drawings  nature  ernsthaeckel  illustration 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Inspired Reading
"I’m very excited to kick-off our new Goodness blog with this little project.
books  reading  lists  graphics  graphicdesign  design  inspiration 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Darwin at Home in Ten Minutes [see also: http://www.darwinathome.org/]
"This is a video of animations of Darwin at Home creatures which result from survival of the fittest and random mutation. Narrative by Gerald de Jong the author of the software behind the project."
locomotion  mathematics  science  evolution  biology  animation  modeling  via:kottke  graphics  walking  ai 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Biobloc
"Go to the discovery of the Bioblocs. In a few click your Biobloc learn alone how to walk, turn, run..."
games  evolution  robots  construction  3d  graphics  locomotion 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Online image editor pixlr
"Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter. It's just what you imagine!"
onlinetoolkit  images  editing  photoshop  photography  photoeditor  pixlr  graphics 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Gearheads don't get it - (37signals)
"Figure out what you have to say that’s interesting and then unleash it. Use whatever tools you’ve got already or what you can afford cheaply. Then go. It’s not the gear that matters. It’s you and your ideas that matter. Tone is in your fingers." Good advice.
equipment  37signals  technology  gear  creativity  design  art  writing  photography  graphics  glvo 
august 2008 by robertogreco
PingMag - Pixelgarten: Layouts in Space
"Young German design studio Pixelgarten is experimenting with spatial graphic design inspired by comic aesthetics — as you see on the cover of the superb Tactile: High Touch Visuals for Laforet’s Grand Bazar Summer 2008 campaign in Harajuku. WOW! For that, Catrin Altenbrandt and Adrian Nießler were happy to spend a week in Tokyo to put up an installation. PingMag enjoyed a chat with the duo. ZONK!"
design  art  graphics  comics  urban  humor  germany  pingmag 
august 2008 by robertogreco
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