Archive for the ‘art+design’ Category
Drawing Blog
February 5th, 2010
I’m not very good at drawing, so I started a draw-something-every-day-until-I-get-better blog. It’s pretty new, but it’s got a few doodles and wallpapers.
Budget Proposal 2011
February 2nd, 2010
The New York Times has a lovely interactive infographic detailing the proposed 2011 budget.
Handmade Islands
January 29th, 2010
In a bay off the coast of Montenegro there’s a church on an island. The island was built by hand.
The idea that devotional rock-throwing has become an art of creating new terrain, generation after generation, rock after rock, pebble after pebble, is stunning to me. Perhaps in a thousand years, a whole archipelago of churches will exist there, standing atop a waterlogged maze of old pleasure boats and fishing ships, the mainland hills and valleys nearby denuded of loose stones altogether. Inadvertently, then, this is as much a museum of local geology—a catalog of rocks—as it is a churchyard.
Rocio Romero
January 13th, 2010
Rocio Romero makes these great modular home kits. Clean lines, huge open spaces, energy-efficient, and apparently very inexpensive for DIY’ers.
One day, one day.
Nomograms
January 10th, 2010
Nomograms (or sometimes nomographs) are graphical single-purpose analog computing devices. They range from the very simple – like the above BMI calculator – to the (often beautifully) complex. Once upon a time they were commonly used for navigation, astronomy, surveying, and countless other things. Now, what with cheap omnipresent digital computers, they’ve fallen into disuse.
Like beautiful math? Need a calendar for 2010? Download a copy of Ron Doerfler’s Graphical Computing Calendar.
New Year’s Resolution Generator
December 30th, 2009
Lack the drive to even come up with resolutions, let alone complete them? Try this beautifully-designed resolution generator!
Dubai
December 30th, 2009
Martin Becka took a series of photographs of Dubai with a 150-year-old camera.
Gävle Goat Burned Again
December 23rd, 2009
My pyromaniacal readers will no doubt be thrilled to hear that the Gävle goat has once again been reduced to cinders.
Gavle city spokeswoman Anna Ostman said someone set fire to the 43-foot-high (13-meter-high) creature around 3 a.m. local time. Only a charred wooden skeleton of the traditional Swedish Christmas symbol remained on Wednesday morning.
“It feels very sad,” Ostman said. “We had really hoped that he would survive Christmas and New Year’s.”
Vandals have burned down the goat 24 times since it was first set up in Gavle in 1966 to mark the holiday season. It has also been smashed several times, run over by a car and had its legs cut off.