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FruiType

^{Image: Sarah King}

Sarah King has painstakingly carved out a niche in the fruit-carving industry, while exciting type nerds on the internet at the same time! She belongs to a graphic design collective in the UK called Evening Tweed which has a few more of her excellent pieces of work as well as a few of her other colleagues’ work as well.

Posted on Thursday, 13 Mar 2008
Tags: fruit, typography, uk

Pixel-perfect Chinese cities

A few things immediately came to mind after stumbling on this site. The first was how beautiful these aerial maps are. Second, holy crap, that must have taken a team of a million designers a long time to put it all together!

The images above are of Hong Kong, zoomed out/zoomed in. There are a variety of other cities available to explore as well, check it out for yourself here.

Posted on Saturday, 08 Mar 2008
Tags: china, maps, visualization

Left or right?

Is she twirling clockwise or counter-clockwise?

none

uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe


uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking


You’re screwed, get a psychologist immediately!

See the article from the Herald Sun in Australia.

Posted on Thursday, 15 Nov 2007
Tags: perception, psychology, science

Details = Design

I just recieved an update for the PCF internet TV application Democracy. I’ve kept up with this app for the past year or so (read “Download some Democracy”), but the thing that caught my eye right from the beginning was the installer on my desktop.

When I drag the TV icon to my Applications folder, there’s a hole in the wall where all the funky fresh 70s wallpaper is. It’s a tiny detail, but it made quite an impression on me.

“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
—Charles Eames

Posted on Thursday, 07 Jun 2007
Tags: os x, software

Chris Jordan - Running the Numbers

^{Art: Chris Jordan, Cans Seurat, 2007}

Chris Jordan’s new exhibit Running the Numbers is a thought-provoking piece that brings ordinary statistics to life through his brilliant use of scale and repetition.

If you’re in New York this summer, you’ll be able to see these images in their native size at the Von Lintel Gallery from June 14 through the end of July.

Posted on Friday, 02 Mar 2007
Tags: art, photography, politics, visualization

The 750 megawatt-hours-a-year-saving logo

To be more green, why not go black? Treehugger explains how a black Google page could save 750 megawatt hours per year.

Read the article here.

Posted on Saturday, 24 Feb 2007
Tags: environment, google, green

Ipanema tile now available on K10K

^{Art: Brian Morris}

While I lived in Brasil a few years ago there were a couple of visual things I was mildly obsessed with—the boldly colorful buses and the varying sidewalk patterns. These sidewalk patterns are world-famous thanks to Rio’s beach culture, however, the styling actually comes from the Portuguese who happen to be well known for all sorts of tile craftsmanship. Here’s a “page of various sidewalk patterns”.

The Ipanema tile is an homage to the famous sidewalk in Rio de Janeiro. I forgot I submitted a pixel tile to Kaliber10000 a long time ago. I just received word that my Ipanema tile was accepted (yay). Here’s the link to the tile.

Posted on Sunday, 21 Jan 2007
Tags: brasil, calçada, desktop, pattern, rio de janeiro, sidewalk, tile

Hot Rotation, 2006

Here’s my non-scientific list of my most played albums of 2006. I attempted to put them in order, but like I said it’s very unscientifical(ism).

1. Amadou & Mariam – Dimanche à  Bamako
2. Marisa Monte – Universo ao meu Redor
3. Macaco – Ingravitto
4. Marcelo D2 – Meu Samba é Assim
5. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
6. Mombojó – nadadenovo
7. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
8. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
9. Camille – Le Sac des Filles
10. Abdullah Ibrahim – African Sun

Posted on Sunday, 31 Dec 2006
Tags: music

Imaginary Foundation

Karyn Gray has written an inspiring piece, Charlie’s Angels Meets Deep Pattern Structures about the Imaginary Foundation.

“It’s funny that brilliant minds so often feel the need to shut themselves up with other intellectuals and moan about how the common folk don’t “get” things. They brainstorm and philosophize, and write essays that are published in journals that hardly anyone will ever see or care about. If they’re so smart, how is it that they never bother to spread their ideas effectively?”

Posted on Sunday, 19 Nov 2006
Tags: art

Orange

Oranges are the foot soldiers in the war against vegetables.

Posted on Monday, 30 Oct 2006
Tags: fruit, orange

Owltooth

^{Art: Jimmy DiMarcellis}

Owltooth is Porous Walker, Jimmy DiMarcellis—this trinity is rockin some entertaining sketchbook messaging, complete with blood, nudity, and animals, heh. Really nice work!

Posted on Thursday, 26 Oct 2006
Tags: art, comic, funny, illustration

Rabbit - Run Wrake

Here’s a really fantastic piece by Run Wrake. Wonderful illustrations, excellent animation, a real treat!

When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long?

Posted on Tuesday, 17 Oct 2006
Tags: animation, film, illustration, video

Uniqlo Explorer by Yugop

Wow! Another brilliant piece by Yugop is a shopping interface for SoHo’s newest retail shop, Uniqlo. Aside from the interesting interface, the site boaasts some really fantastic photography and an overall clean aesthetic.

Posted on Wednesday, 04 Oct 2006
Tags: fashion, new york city, retail, soho, yugop

blackthoughts, nowwashyourhands

Pretty girls doing scary things at blackthoughts. While you’re at it, peep the rest of NOWWASHYOURHANDS.

Posted on Wednesday, 27 Sep 2006
Tags: graphic design, photography, uk

The 1970s Type

Mark Simonson Talks Type about an edition of Metropolis from 1977.

I have a personal love and admiration for a lot of the careful type lockups from the 1970s. A few years ago I was at a used book sale at a library in Rio de Janeiro and picked up a hardbound 10 year special edition of Revista Manchete, which was stocked full of yummy type similar to what Mark shares. I believe this cover is from 1971.

Posted on Friday, 22 Sep 2006
Tags: 1970s, graphic design, typography

Niemeyer remix

^{Art: Brian Morris}

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói
Fundação Oscar Niemeyer

Posted on Monday, 18 Sep 2006
Tags: architecture, brasil, niterói, oscar niemeyer, photography