Werner Herzog’s documentary about 32,000 years old cave paintings blows the mind and delights the eye. The 3D version just came out and I must say it’s an amazing experience. Here is an article on it.
Bryan Collins has assembled a rich exhibit of unintentional art from collected snaps of urban signage, much of it created with just the materials at hand and a need to say something, and most often without the interference of “professional” designers or sign-makers. As in all design, at least as much is communicated through the art and execution as through the literal message. Here the human touch shines.
Water. The amniotic beginnings. Sustenance of all life. Symbol of the libido. Or just anticipation of the onset of Spring and Summer?
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Read MoreOK, so I’m proud. My daughter Heather just started an internship at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC, a step along the way in her grad studies in art history at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Her focus is on the art of ancient Egypt, and the gig is in just the right department. She just posted some samplings of the Met’s awesome collection on her brand new blog, hearallthebirds.com
The art of Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio, known as “the bad boy of Baroque,” has seen a burst in popularity in recent times, due to a renewed interest in the way he represented ordinary humanity in his work and the rebellious anti-hero in his personal life. Here is an interesting piece from ARTnews about “Caravaggiomania.”
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” — Captain Yossarian, Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
The unsettling feeling that you are being followed online–because we all are–is a perfect example of the rationality of paranoia characterized by Heller’s quote.
Way on the rational side of that equation is Doug Wolfgram, one of the smartest guys we’ve been associated with over the years.
His new company, IntelliProtect, has developed a service that monitors your online privacy risk and gives you a simple interface for managing your exposure to behavioral targeting and more pernicious uses of your personal information. Check it out.
Doug also has some great stuff on the IntelliProtect blog relating to the overall relationship of privacy and our new social technologies. Don’t miss “What Happens in Vegas, Stays on Facebook.”
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Here’s an artifact from the transitional era (and my dad’s old letterpress shop) when offset printing was encroaching on the remaining territorial outposts of letterpress—in this case, the humble business card. The PreTint Company’s preprinted color offset masters combined the best qualities of both technologies, enabling the letterpress printer to offer jazzy design and color on a business card job with a single-color, short-run letterpress imprint.
Today’s variations on this concept, of course, are the preprinted sheets made for personalizing in a laser printer, so really, the most notable thing about the PreTint product is the period quirkiness of the designs.
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A little playing around with the classic pointing-hand cursor turned into an exercise in recreational info-graphics, based on the venerable game of Rock Paper Scissors. The concept developed itself into a poster, as the visual play suggested some whimsical possibilities for expansion of the game rules.
I suspect that some serious Rock Paper Scissors enthusiasts may take issue with this, however. If you think that sounds at all hyperbolic, check out the World RPS Society.
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A few years ago, I did some design work for my colleague, Rhonda, who happened to have this amazing bicycle hanging on the wall of her studio, kind of like a museum piece. It featured a vintage Italian double-seat-tube frame mounted with wooden rims—a real thing of beauty. Her husband, David, a bike designer and builder, had put it together for her out of an eclectic array of parts. Knowing that I had long admired Rhonda’s “wall bike,” David offered to build me one in trade for my work. I jumped on the offer.
That bike, based on an unusual, raked-geometry time trials frame (with a suspect frame flaw that argues against actually riding it*), hangs over my desk today.
I am far from a hard-core bicyclist, but bikes have always been in my life. My prosthetic front teeth are a regular reminder of my first good crash; I got pretty good on a unicycle later (peak geekhood), managing not to lose any pieces over that, and have commuted, cruised and kid-hauled over the years, with only one additional emergency-room visit.
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