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Åh
"Åh [o:h] is a platform for creative collaboration between Johanna Lundberg and Elin Svensson. From 2008 to spring 2012, it served as a studio practice for the two designers, producing award winning work from art direction to illustration, publications, branding, stationery and websites.

Their clients include The Architecture Foundation, Financial Times, The Finnish Institute in London, Grafik Magazine, The Guardian, Helsinki Arts Initiative, kulör, Newly Drawn, OK Do, Time Out Magazine and YCN.

As well as continuing together in a collaborative capacity, Johanna and Elin are now pursuing projects individually in the fields of design and illustration. To discuss potential projects, please contact either one"
finland  okdo  graphicdesign  Åh  johannalundberg  elinsvensson  uk  webdesign  typography  illustration  design  from delicious
15 days ago by robertogreco
if:book: Back to the Future -- In honor of Encyclopedia Britannica giving up its print edition
These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan Kay had just become the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work with him to continue the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the idea of an Intelligent Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the (future) encyclopedia might be used and commissioned Glenn Keane, a well-known Disney animator to render them. The captions also date from 1982.

The most interesting thing for me today about these images is that although we foresaw that people would be accessing information wirelessly (notice the little antenna on the device in the "tide pool" image, we completely missed the most important aspect of the network -- that it was going to connect people to other people.
futurism  glennkeane  atari  britannica  encyclopediabritannica  intelligentencyclopedia  internet  ipad  illustration  1982  alankay  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Valentine's Day 2012 Cards - a set on Flickr
"For Valentine's Day 2012 we created approximately 75 unique cards for our friends, family, and business associates. Each card generates a custom valentine using the data from the person's name and address.

Don't read below this line if you don't want the "magic" ruined for you."
generativeart  illustration  images  valentines  kindandsmartpeoplemetontheinternet  beauty  design  processing  derrickschultz  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc
"A lyrical encyclopedia of visual proportions…Rugged design in opposition to elegance…It's bigger than you could ever think—just explore—no clues from me…big letter and no fancy-dan embroidery—on opposition to the fey…"

"This site records a range of material dedicated to the study of the Visual Narrative. The original site, intended by me for part-time students and other interested parties was closed down by the University of Brighton in 2004. I was subsequently denied access to the original images most of which, however, were in my own collection. I have developed the site on a daily basis thereafter. It remains exclusively educational and is in constant use. Many thanks to those in the UK and beyond who shared my irritation at events. Contact me on chris@fulltable.com "
writing  stories  narrativesequences  magazines  _narrative  film  treasure  susia  philbeard  rebeccamarywilson  hypertext  ruthrix  janecouldrey  clarestrand  grammercypark  petruccelli  jackiebatey  jaynewilson  dickbriel  chrismullen  america  visual  visualcodes  advertising  comics  classideas  tcsnmy  srg  edg  glossary  reference  books  images  visualization  wcydwt  art  design  illustration  storytelling  via:litherland 
january 2012 by robertogreco
100%ORANGE
[Google Translate]

"Illustrator.
Takeuchi and Kenji Oikawa, Mayuko two people. Living in Tokyo.
Another picture book illustration, cartoon, as well as animation. "Yonda Shincho Bunko?" (Shinchosha) "road from Pan! back" (by theory) "Boo Usanno parts" (Fukuinkan) "cat sweater" (Gakken) , "Elephants are not writing whole "(文溪堂) "fruit room" (Kadokawa Shoten pre Vision /) "Sunao Sunao" (Heibonsha) "Homemade Animations" (TDK Core) "Yonda? NONSTOP" (Shinchosha) "100% ORANGE ILLUSTRATION WORK" GOOD SMILE "" (玄光社) Japan Picture Book Award 13th Grand Prize "will not be goodぎゅうにゅうをこぼしてしまったおはなし" (Iwasaki Shoten) "
photography  takeuchioikawa  kenjioikawa  100%orange  books  design  japan  illustration  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
[ idea-mag.com ] » idea magazine » IDEA No.347 : The Garden of Bunpei Yorifuji
"Bunpei Yorifuji is a Japanese graphic designer who is known for art direction of advertisement using his unique illustrations. He is also known as a book designer and an illustrator. Besides, he writes books which are designed and put illustrations by himself. He told his wide sphere of activity as "Gardening". This means that he thinks design is like the earth of his garden and he grows various trees there such as advertisement, book design, illustration and so on. The trees are influenced one another and he likes to find common points and to connect them. In this issue, we divide his works into 4 categories; advertisement, illustration, book design and books and exhibitions, and we introduce these differences and the core of his creation in common."
illustration  graphicdesign  design  japan  bunpeiyorifuji  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
How to Build the Pixar of the iPad Age in Shreveport, Louisiana - Technology - The Atlantic
As you get closer, the landscape gets scrubbier, with empty lots separating the buildings like gaps in a smile. A man may walk down the street in welding gear. Pull into the parking lot of BioSpaceX, a shiny new building originally intended to house biotechnology startups. Walk through the doors. You're at Moonbot.
moonbot  sarahrich  alexismadrigal  creativity  ipad  books  pixar  shreveport  louisiana  2011  brandonoldenburg  billjoyce  williamjoyce  art  illustration  lamptonenochs  christinaellis  storytelling  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
Visipix: Mangas by HOKUSAI, Katsushika (1760 - 1849)
"This started one of the most ambitious projects in art: Teaching us all how to see things with our own eyes<br />
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Visipix.com publishes here the complete 15 volumes in facsimile quality. This is a world premiere in the internet<br />
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The success of western culture is based on the 'Enlightenment': Think with your own brain, find your religion in your own heart. I go that far: I prefer to be wrong with my own brain - and do my darndest to learn, especially learn from others - than to blindly depend on somebody else's belief. We learn this from Socrates, Luther, Lessing, Kant, Popper and others.<br />
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What the western culture achieved verbally, Hokusai does visually. Artistic genius and wise teachings are well balanced. Nothing could be more difficult."
art  japan  illustration  manga  visual  hokusai  katsushikahokusai  graphic  via:preoccupations  1800s  1700s  noticing  learning  enlightenment  belief  balance  teachings  srg  edg  glvo  has:via  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
The Momentus Project
"A collaborative project in which a select group of designers, illustrators, and artists create visual interpretations of the most defining moments in United States history as a way of informing others of our proud, yet sometimes troubled and forgotten past.<br />
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Contributors hail from around the globe as the most defining moments in United States history have often had a radical effect on the world abroad."
design  history  illustration  typography  collaboration  visualization  us  via:lukeneff  classideas  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
5 Voyeuristic, Cross-Disciplinary Peeks Inside Great Creators' Notebooks | Brain Pickings
"The nature and origin of creativity is the subject of many a theory. But, rather than theorizing about it, wouldn’t it be great if we could just lift the lid of a great creative mind and see just how the machinery works? Well, we sort of can — by way of great creators’ private notebooks and sketchbooks, which offer a trip to as close to the creative process as we can get. After last week’s rare look at Michelangelo’s, here are five cross-disciplinary favorites, spanning everything from street art to field science."
art  books  creativity  writing  notebooks  2011  classideas  thinking  stefansagmeister  miltonglaser  michaelbierut  marianbantes  odedexer  nomabar  amyfranceschini  sarafanelli  timlane  paulcox  tristanmanco  illustration  meriwetherlewis  annabehrensmeyer  rogerkitching  jennykeller  glenngriffin  deborahmorrison  sophieblackall  tadcarpenter  jillbliss  juliarothman  stevenheller  litatalarico  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Manga Artist’s First Foray into English | PRI's The World
"A few days after the earthquake and tsunami, the New York Times published an illustration by Mizuki on its op-ed page. It shows a hand emerging from an eddy at sea, outstretched, grasping for help.<br />
When I asked Mizuki to explain it, he said, “Modern Japan is drowning. It’s lost its sense of traditionalism. Though,” he reflects, “during World War II, Japan might have been too Japanese.” Mizuki believes perhaps Japan is now entering an international era.<br />
Somewhere between being subsumed by the rest of the world, and being too Japanese, Mizuki sees a middle space, where the bright lights of modern Japan don’t blind its citizens from the past. And where a story like the one Mizuki tells in “Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths” may inspire younger manga artists address Japan’s many current challenges."
shigerumizuki  manga  japan  illustration  english  japanese  ww2  wwii  classideas  history  future  traditionalism  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - TEDxEast - Lauren Redniss - Mistakes Have Been Made
"Lauren shares her process both as a writer and and artist to create her works. Lauren also shares the unexpected benefits of trail and error throughout her journey as an artist."
laurenredniss  art  science  process  mistakes  serendipity  2011  learning  discovery  understanding  illustration  cyanotype  mariecurie  pierrecurie  history  books  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Radioactive: Marie Curie's Story Told in Cyanotype | Brain Pickings
"To stay true to Curie’s spirit and legacy, Redniss rendered her poetic artwork in an early-20th-century image printing process called cyanotype, critical to the discovery of both X-rays and radioactivity itself — a cameraless photographic technique in which paper is coated with light-sensitive chemicals. Once exposed to the sun’s UV rays, this chemically-treated paper turns a deep blue color. The text in the book is a unique typeface Redniss designed using the title pages of 18th- and 19th-century manuscripts from the New York Public Library archive. She named it Eusapia LR, for the croquet-playing, sexually ravenous Italian Spiritualist medium whose séances the Curies used to attend. The book’s cover is printed in glow-in-the-dark ink."

[See also: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/05/30/summer-reading-list-2011 AND ªªhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/0061351326 ]ºº
art  science  books  storytelling  illustration  2011  laurenredniss  mariecurie  pierrecurie  toread  cyanotype  radioactivity  mariapopova  love  history  visualization  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
The Ride Journal
"The fact that you’ve made it here shows that you love bikes and are looking for something different to the other magazines and journals out there. That’s good because that’s what The Ride has been created to be.<br />
Born, as all good things are, out of a conversation over Mexican food and Pacifico beers, The Ride is an all encompassing read. We know that most people who share our obsession with bikes don’t want to be pigeon-holed as roadies, freeriders, track racers, BMXers, XC riders or even commuters. They are just riders. So we wanted to create something for them, and also for us. Something that crosses both cycling and international borders.<br />
The idea was to create a journal of personal stories. Bikes have changed people’s lives in so many ways and we wanted to gather a small selection of these tales. We didn’t want to give reviews or race reports, we wanted to get under the skin and expose the passion that flows through riders veins."
biking  cycling  magazines  online  illustration  storytelling  photography  bikes  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
HORT [See also: http://vimeo.com/20949186 ]
"HORT began its inhabitance back in 1994, under the previous stage name of EIKES GRAFISCHER HORT. Who the hell is Eike? Eike is the creator of HORT. 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.

It is encouraged that you don't see the work displayed on this website as a library of ideas and visual styles to pick and choose from, but a showcase of our capabilities and achievements. HORT are willing to give most things a go. I mean how are you supposed to learn if you don't try. Right?"
hort  design  lcproject  learning  tcsnmy  studios  studioclassroom  learningenvironments  illustration  germany  berlin  creativity  curiosity  play  eikekönig  cv  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  interdisciplinary  collaboration  children  safety  work  howwework  sharing  systems  education  unschooling  deschooling  growing  uncertainty  failure  risk  risktaking  schooldesign  freedom  autonomy  revolution  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Wake In Progress
"FINNEGANS WAKE is a comedy about language and human nature…dream in which a psyche fragments and battles itself…history of dublin, humanity, and a family played out simultaneously, consecutively and concurrently.<br />
There’s no book like it, but if you had to make comparisons, you might say it’s like a chaotic blend of the Metamorphoses and Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Oh, and the Bible. And the The Divine Comedy. The Book of the Dead. The Life of the Buddha. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy...<br />
Oh, just forget it. <br />
this site records my foolhardy attempt to illustrate finnegans wake.  Actually, I’ll be happy to finish chapter one for now. The curious may peruse the fruit of my hubris via the blog, the slideshow or the index.<br />
nothing that appears in finnegans wake is ever just one thing.  How exactly do you draw a talking fox which is also a mouse, one of two arguing brothers, a pope, and modernist author Wyndham Lewis?…"
finneganswake  literature  books  illustration  art  via:rodcorp  jamesjoyce  language  humannature  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
A humble plea to Alan Moore and Banksy - Neven Mrgan's tumbl
"I want the world we live in to include a comic book written by Alan Moore & drawn by Banksy…<br />
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They’re both hypereducated, well-spoken British gentlemen with a wicked anarchist bend, a sort of giddy nihilism at the midpoint between the extremes of love for the human animal and complete disgust with it. They have very little shit to give for society’s rules that keep things in order, but they’re almost clinically empathetic of the individual. & they’re damn funny, on top.<br />
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Look, Banksy is practically already a Moore character (V, of course.) As for Moore, his sleeveless attire, wizard-beard, and baby smile are made for a Banksy piece; maybe he holds a bouquet of tulips over a Detroit slum, I don’t know. Their hometowns - which I bet they’re both awfully nostalgic about - are 100 miles from each other. Moore can curl up in his bed with his notebook and his tea while Banksy flies to LA or Tripoli or wherever, and how could they not churn out gold? Let me have this fantasy, alright."
banksy  alanmoore  comics  anarchism  empathy  writing  art  illustration  nevenmrgan  humans  lovehate  society  rules  cv  nihilism  people  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Jastrow Duck Rabbit
"Leafing through some past issues of TICS (an activity that is always pleasurable and informative), I noticed a depiction of the famous "duck-rabbit" figure, described as an "illusion" and attributed to Wittgenstein (Malach, Levy, & Hasson, 2002).  <br />
Technically, the duck-rabbit figure is an ambiguous (or reversible, or bistable) figure, not an illusion (Peterson, Kihlstrom, Rose, & Glisky, 1992). The two classes of perceptual phenomena have quite different theoretical implications. From a constructivist point of view, many illusions illustrate the role of unconscious inferences in perception, while the ambiguous figures illustrate the role of expectations, world-knowledge, and the direction of attention (Long & Toppino, 2004). For example, children tested on Easter Sunday are more likely to see the figure as a rabbit; if tested on a Sunday in October, they tend to see it as a duck or similar bird (Brugger & Brugger, 1993)…"
philosophy  psychology  illustration  perception  wittgenstein  josephjastrow  duck-rabbit  johnkihlstrom  cognition  illusions  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Salottobuono > projects > DREAMING MILANO
"…Thinking about the internal boundaries of the city, about its “inner front”, means to catch the opportunity of an expansion different from the peripheral one: with other relationships between open spaces and built masses, a different density, a different intensity, proper typologies.<br />
It means also to reflect on the natural environment, not as a landscape fragment romantically survived to urbanization anymore, but as a “productive graft”, structuring space and metropolitan luxury. Cultivated place instead of social diaphragm.<br />
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The deep differences between the metropolitan boundaries and the agricultural land could exacerbate, rather than recompose in a homogeneous tissue.<br />
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On the inner edge of the contemporary city, high-speed drifting fragments of frenetic urbanity float free from intrinsic relations with the traditional organization of the built environment…"
milano  milan  cities  innerfront  landscape  architecture  planning  urban  urbanism  urbanplanning  expansion  endlesscities  growth  monocentriccities  italia  italy  illustration  rail  railways  publicspace  parks  boundaries  environment  urbanization  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Curious Pages: LANE SMITH on It's a Book
"Unlike Grandpa (me), today's kids are whip smart and tech savvy. I know eventually everything will be digital and kids won't even know from a regular old book book and that's fine. Truthfully? The reason I made the book? Certainly not to "throw down the gauntlet" as one critic has stated. Naw, I just thought digital vs. traditional made for a funny premise. No heavy message, I'm only in it for the laffs. <br />
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My first version featured a kid. I dummied up some ruffs showing a dummy of a kid who doesn't know what this thing called 'a book' is. "What's this?" he said. The narrator answers, "It's a book," etc."<br />
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[See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4BK_2VULCU AND ªªhttp://www.lanesmithbooks.com/Home.html ]ºº
books  culture  reading  illustration  lanesmith  technology  bookfuturism  process  howwework  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Magpie Studio | 
"Tae Hwang & M R Barnadas are visual artists…Their art & science relationship began as interns…at The Field Museum of Natural History…<br />
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For 10+ years they have been working & creating together in almost every conceivable sustance for many museums & independent research projects…combined skill set includes: traditional sculpting, painting, & drawing techniques, casting/mould making, metal/plastic/wood fabrication, blacksmithing, bronze foundry work, archival restoration methods, textiles, electronics/kinetics for art applications, heirloom craft processes, analog & digital print based design…<br />
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plant & animal models/illustrations, pictured…were informed by research heads of various biology disciplines. From pharmaceutical silicone (squid) to wax (cactus), new materials are used along w/ historically familiar ones, & both experimental & traditional modeling methods are applied…"
art  artists  melindabarnadas  models  animals  scale  restoration  illustration  nature  biology  sculpture  plants  taehwang  sandiego  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Stephanie Syjuko — Comparative Morphologies, 2001
"What looks like vintage natural history studies turns out to be, on closer inspection, images of computer and technological cords and peripherals, each slightly manipulated to take on organic characteristics--a fused or sprouting growth from a stem, a viral infection, or a radial symmetry.<br />
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I used a digital camera to photograph the computer cords and peripherals that surrounded my home workstation, and then transferred them to the computer where i digitally altered and added to the original images. Arranged suggestively on an image of a vintage print (the original botanical images on it having been erased), the techie beginnings become transformed into the final archival-quality iris prints."
2001  electronics  morphology  illustration  photography  design  art  stephaniesyjuco  nature  vintage  botany  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Nieves for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
"Download and collect your favorite Nieves Zines, carefully edited and adapted for the multi-touch screen. Leaf through each Zine from front to back, identical to the original, all in a single app optimised for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Save your favorite pages as wallpaper. The app is updated with new issues every month, giving you the opportunity to experience out of print classics from the Nieves Zine catalogue." [via: http://www.thinkingforaliving.org/archives/6793 ]
nieves  zines  iphone  ipad  applications  ios  illustration  art  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Where Is Art Now? Leaving the art world to decide what art is doesn’t resolve the issue of quality...: Observatory: Design Observer
"we need to put more emphasis again on the visual in art, & it’s clear that many young artists with visual talent have decided to ignore the art world’s weary, self-serving conceptualist strictures & just go ahead and make the art they feel like making. They want to create optical art experiences of their own. By paying too much attention to the extremes of high or low we run the risk of undervaluing what’s happening in the densely populated middle — graphic novels, graphic design, illustration, low-cost film-making — where the expressive possibilities of the visual are still embraced with conviction. This, rather than art scene-mediated art, is the real center of visual culture in our time. Are we overlooking great work only because we have been instructed for so long to assume that anything presented outside the art world’s walls must be inferior?"
art  designobserver  rickpoynor  glvo  visual  conceptualart  graphicnovels  design  illustration  filmmaking  culture  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Koopa, It’s What’s For Supper « Jude Buffum
"For the upcoming show Pixel Pushers, sponsored by SCION and curated by Giant Robot, I decided to explore the carnivorous side of the world of video games. Though I myself eat meat, enough of my friends and loved ones are now vegetarians or vegans, so it’s something I’ve been experimenting with. I suppose these pieces are a by-product of that exploration. That, and my long-time obsession with meat diagrams."
edg  nintendo  supermario  judebuffum  giantrobot  meat  humaor  illustration  glvo  videogames  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Paris vs New York, a tally of two cities
"A friendly visual match between those two cities, as seen by a Parisian-based-and-lover on New York : details, cliches and contradictions. This way, please."
graphicdesign  comparison  nyc  paris  posters  visualization  humor  illustration  cities  blogs  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Anatomical illustrations from Edo-period Japan ::: Pink Tentacle
"Here is a selection of old anatomical illustrations that provide a unique perspective on the evolution of medical knowledge in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868)."
anatomy  biology  history  illustration  japan  medicine  art  edo  human  glvo  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
This is Uncommon
"Uncommon makes the most well-designed, highest quality customizable products available. Our proprietary 3D TATT™ (Thermo-Active Transdermal Technology™) process ensures durable, long-lasting, high resolution imagery on every product we imprint. We then package your art with care and ship it quickly and safely to your door."
iphone  ipod  accessories  gifts  uncommon  shopping  products  printing  illustration  diy  design  custom  art  fabrication  webdesign  via:russelldavies  from delicious
september 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
A Collection a Day, 2010
"This is a blog documenting a project that will span exactly one year, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010. On each of those 365 days, I will photograph or draw (& occasionally paint) one collection. Most of the collections are real & exist in my home or studio; those I will photograph. Some are imagined; those I will draw or (occasionally) paint.<br />
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Since I was a young girl, I have been obsessed both with collecting and with arranging, organizing and displaying my collections. This is my attempt to document my collections, both the real & the imagined. Some of my collections are so large that I will need to photograph them separately over several days. I will likely not attempt to photograph collections in which the individual pieces are large in size or awkward in shape (i.e. my art collection or vintage enamel dishware collection). The only rule is that I must photograph or draw a whole or part of a collection each day for 365 days and post the result here on this blog."
collecting  collections  2010  ephemera  photography  illustration  lisacongdon  vintage  blogs  crafts  art  design  daily  projects  classideas  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Der abenteuerliche Simplizissimus - a set on Flickr
"Incredible artwork from Der abenteuerliche Simplizissimus, Germany's first adventure novel circa 1668" Maria Popova [http://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/17108852730]
art  design  illustration  1668 
june 2010 by robertogreco
unurth | street art
Kinda like Wooster, but with larger images and a cleaner design. Great content, well tagged, has that auto-extend feature when you get to the end of the page, and a nice index view too.
art  streetart  graffiti  illustration  culture  stencils  street  design  via:javierarbona  tcsnmy  glvo 
may 2010 by robertogreco
The Center for Cartoon Studies
"The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) offers a two-year course of study that centers on the creation and dissemination of comics, graphic novels and other manifestations of the visual narrative. Experienced and internationally recognized cartoonists, writers, and designers teach classes. The school is located in historic downtown village of White River Junction, Vermont, in the old Colony Surprise Department Store."
academia  graphicnovels  comics  drawing  colleges  education  schools  art  cartoons  illustration 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Theodore Watson - Funky Forest Moomah Edition
"‘Funky Forest’ is an interactive ecosystem where children create trees with their body and then divert the water flowing from the waterfall to the trees to keep them alive. The health of the trees contributes to the overall health of the forest and the types of creatures that inhabit it. The Moomah Edition of ‘Funky Forest’ expands on the original by introducing four seasons each with a unique environment and creatures to match. Each season also features an interactive particle system. For example in Fall leaves falling from the trees blow in the wind and in winter it snows. The Moomah edition is permanently installed at the Moomah Children’s cafe in New York City."
installation  ecology  illustration  inspiration  trees  water  interactive  children  art 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Down Argentine Way
"“I saw a really bad knockoff of one of my characters painted on a kiosk, and I felt like ‘Yes! I’ve finally made it!’  ” says Argentina’s Ricardo Siri Liniers, known by his nom de comics, Liniers. The artist is referring to one of the newsstands that line the streets of Buenos Aires and that sell an eclectic mix of magazines, comics, and high-brow literature. Homemade paintings of well-known comics characters often adorn the city’s kiosks: Homer Simpson is a favorite. For Liniers, the newsstand homage was proof of his growing influence in the Argentine comics scene, and of a movement from obscurity to cult status."
liniers  macanudo  buenosaires  argentina  comics  illustration 
march 2010 by robertogreco
A Love Letter For You
"Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and is sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. Generous support provided by the Brownstein Group and Septa."
stephenpowers  design  art  urban  blogs  illustration  typography  streetart  lettering  graffiti  philadelphia  street  arts  murals  tcsnmy 
february 2010 by robertogreco
The Mariana Trench To Scale [Pic] | I Am Bored
"The Mariana Trench To Scale [Pic]. It`s the deepest part of the world`s ocean and the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth. Yeah, it`s that deep."
scale  oceans  visualization  geography  oceanography  science  web  earth  illustration  maps  mapping  tcsnmy  marianatrench 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Scion Presents: 'THIS MUST BE THE PLACE' on Vimeo
"Featuring work from Gluekit, Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch, Damien Correll, Joel Speasmaker, Matt Curry, Skull Phone, Dan Funderburgh and Jemma Hostetler, the acclaimed multimedia artists and designers explore the theme of "home" with the loose limitation of a two-toned color palette." [via: http://www.woostercollective.com/2010/01/scions_this_must_be_the_place_an_introdu.html]
homes  art  design  culture  consumption  materialism  illustration  glvo  mattcurry  gluekit  maxwelllorenholyoke-hirsch  damiencorrell  joelspeasmaker  skullphone  danfunderburgh  jemmahostetier  possessions  place  identity 
january 2010 by robertogreco
The Phylomon Project
"Well 2010 is here, a.k.a. the International Year of Biodiversity, and to us at the SCQ, it means that we're finally ready to go ahead with our long awaited phylomon project. “What is this?” you ask? Well, it's an online initiative aimed at creating a Pokemon card type resource but with real creatures on display in full “character design” wonder. Not only that - but we plan to have the scientific community weigh in to determine the content on such cards (note that the cards above are only a mock-up of what that content might be), as well as folks who love gaming to try and design interesting ways to use the cards. Then to top it all off, members of the teacher community will participate to see whether these cards have educational merit. Best of all, the hope is that this will all occur in a non-commercial-open-access-open-source-because-basically-this-is-good-for-you-your-children-and-your-planet sort of way."
pokemon  taxonomy  pedagogy  education  children  teaching  science  games  animals  biology  memory  biodiversity  conservation  2010  gaming  cardgames  tcsnmy  opensource  creativecommons  kids  art  life  eowilson  publicservice  glvo  edg  srg  drawing  illustration 
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
Turning The Pages Online: Book Menu
"Using touchscreen technology and animation software, the digitized images of rare and beautiful historic books in the biomedical sciences are offered at kiosks at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Visitors may ‘touch and turn’ these pages in a highly realistic way. They can zoom in on the pages for more detail, read or listen to explanations of the text, and (in some cases) access additional information on the books in the form of curators’ notes.
via:preoccupations  medicine  renaissance  science  education  art  biology  illustration  images  anatomy  reference  libraries  medical  zoology  archives  history  digitallibraries  nlm  books 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Marc Ngui | Drawing - Art
"These drawings are a methodical interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schzophrenia (Wikipedia link) by Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari, translated by Brian Massumi, University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
design  art  visualization  schizophrenia  drawings  illustration  rhizome  literature  philosophy  books  culture  deleuze  guattari  gillesdeleuze 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Anonymous Postcard
"Changing the world with a roll of stamps and whatever we find in the neighbor's recycling bin
tuckernichols  design  diy  postcards  complaints  anonymous  humor  communication  community  activism  snark  mail  illustration  art  glvo 
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
Sisyphus Office Exhibition, Houston 2009. on the Behance Network
"The artists involved in the project are collaborating with businesses and offices in and around Houston in order to highlight art as an integral and necessary distraction in our day to day life. The artists and offices involved in Sisyphus Office are working physically and conceptually with the notions of existentialism, capitalism, artistic romanticism and deadpan slapstickism as a means to examine the artifice that keeps us clinging to reality and distracted from the void. Sisyphus Office is about punching the clock, and then punching it again…but harder the second time. It’s about transcending the mundane through the beauty and absurdity of distraction. It’s about recognizing the comedy in the tragedy of the day to day… and then waking up again to do the same thing all over again the next morning."
art  work  humor  houston  drawing  typography  installation  office  design  via:migurski  2009  handdrawn  illustration  culture  collage 
may 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
I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com
"During the cold and dark Berlin winter days, I spend a lot of time with my boys in their room. And as I look at the toys scattered on the floor, my mind inevitably wanders back to New York."
lego  illustration  art  photography  nyc  toys  genius  abstract  humor  visualization  glvo 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Think Anatomy
"We’ve found links to the best anatomy resources on the Internet, categorized them, reviewed them, and put them in one place for you—ThinkAnatomy. Not everyone can get their study needs met through lecture, lab, and a textbook. You probably find yourself searching for other study aids. But, we also know how frustrating it can be to search the Internet for good resources, and let’s be honest, there’s a lot of bad information out there."
human  anatomy  biology  science  visualization  illustration  3d  database  teaching  learning  studyguides  tcsnmy  medical  medicine  elearning  reference  education 
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
Flickr: Panda [see also http://www.flickr.com/photos/bar-art/2774092202/ from which the quote comes]
"To some people, Explore is the ultimate beauty contest...pinnacle of Flickr, achievement of achievements. They fret & conspire & worry & actually get angry & frustrated, when their perfectly fine photos, never "get into" Explore. Except it's basically random... So to help these poor souls, to shed some light on the mysteries and myths of Explore, a Group was formed. "The Secrets of Explore". A clearinghouse of info to clear up the nonsense, to spread some fact jelly over fiction bread. And of course, it has its very own blinky graphic. This artwork might go blinky for the cause as well, but it's also an homage, a bit of a congrats and thank you, to the fine Flickr volunteers who risk their sanity, to tell TruthToExplore(tm). Why pandas, you ask? Why pandas vomiting rainbows? That's a whole other secret."
flickr  humor  animals  interface  illustration  photography  pandas  explore 
october 2008 by robertogreco
Hit & Run > New at Reason: Mike Flynn, Shikha Dalmia, and Terry Colon on America's Absurd Immigration Waiting Line - Reason Magazine
"From our October issue, Mike Flynn, Shikha Dalmia, and Terry Colon show what it takes to legally immigrate to America. Click on the image below to see a larger version. Click again to expand it."
us  immigration  migration  legal  law  infographics  howto  visualization  illustration  diagram  humor 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Beautiful Losers film trailer on Vimeo
"Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. In the early 1990's a loose-knit group of likeminded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the "establishment" art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture. Starring a selection of artists who are considered leaders within this culture, Beautiful Losers focuses on the telling of personal stories...speaking to themes of what happens when the outside becomes "in" as it explores the creative ethos connecting these artists and today's youth."
beautifullosers  film  documentary  skateboarding  art  illustration  graffiti  streetart  design  learning  diy  identity  glvo  creativity  youth  biography  mikemills  barrymcgee  margaretkillgallen  harmonykorine  aaronrose  edtempleton  jojackson  deannatempleton  stephenpowers  thomascampbell  cheryldunn  chrisjohanson  geoffmcfetridge  shepardfairey 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Tokyo Fantasy: Images of the apocalypse ::: Pink Tentacle
"These fantastic photoshopped images by Tokyo Genso (Tokyo Fantasy) show a post-apocalyptic Tokyo overtaken by nature."
japan  illustration  scifi  tokyo  fantasy  worldwithoutus  urbandecay  ecotopia  dystopia 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Find Your Place in Space on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"I designed these 18x27 posters for the 826LA Echo Park Time Travel Mart. You can buy one at the mart or (soon) at 826la.org" [set here: http://flickr.com/photos/amykatemartin/sets/72157606044522564/]
timetravel  826  826la  losangeles  posters  graphics  design  illustration  time  history 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Totoro Forest Project
"A fund raising exhibition/auction to support the National Trust Totoro Forest Foundation established by Oscar award winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, featuring original art created by internationally acclaimed artists in the fields of animation, comic bo
glvo  totoro  illustration  art  environment  japan  activism  charity  arts  forests  ecology  miyazaki  trees  nature  comics  animation  manga 
july 2008 by robertogreco
felix sockwell
"GUI is an ugly process, but an interesting one. Pixel reduction is a nice diversion from drawing my linear crap. I mean "art". Here is a peek inside some of the process, which was considerably smooth."
icons  design  iphone  nytimes  informationdesign  iconography  illustration 
july 2008 by robertogreco
lullatone.com
"Lullatone makes simple art and music and animations and books and movies and food and and and and.... " "Yoshimi didn’t know she was an artist at first. She also didn’t know she was a singer, or a lot of other things"
japan  japanese  music  homes  design  interiors  architecture  art  lullatone  experimental  unschooling  deschooling  autodidacts  glvo  artists  video  illustration 
july 2008 by robertogreco
The Boys and the Subway - Niemann Opinion Art Blog – Abstract City – NYTimes.com
"My sons Arthur, 5, and Gustav, 3, are obsessed with the New York City subway system...They can barely sit through an episode of “Sesame Street.” But when we go for aimless subway joy rides on the weekends, they sit like little angels, devoutly callin
abstract  art  children  subways  subway  transit  nyc  illustration  transportation  urban  nytimes  humor  stories 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Arkitip™ | Intelligence - Parents Just Don't Understand - "The "fact is my parents never understood anything about me...
"...I realize now that it is the natural cycle of things and should be expected, perhaps even relished. My daughters will be entertaining and capturing a generation that no where near includes me and that will be fine."
parenting  art  illustration  craft  glvo  generations  careers  identity 
june 2008 by robertogreco
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