Archive for the ‘art+design’ Category
Logicomix
March 14th, 2010
I’m pretty sure that if you like this blog you’d like a graphic novel biography of Bertrand Russell, which is exactly what Logicomix is.
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Strandbeests
March 13th, 2010
Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who specializes in building artificial animals.
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!