Ad Reinhardt
NASA Graphic Standards Manual and applications, at the AIGA Design Archives.
I will outnumber you. I will outbillion you. I am the spectacle in the forest. I am the inventor of rubber. I will outrubber you. Sir, the reality of your world is nothing more than a rotten caricature of a great opera.
-Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog (1982) What a fantastic little monologue. I want to outbillion somebody someday.
(via ghostorballoon)
METAPHYSICAL GAMING PHOTOGRAPHY.
Robert Overweg is a photographer in the virtual world he sees the worlds of (first and third person shooter) games as the new public space of contemporary society and as a direct extension of the physical world.
Overweg dwells either by foot or by air through the outskirts of the virtual world which he dissects through his photography. He makes use of the new possibilities which the virtual world gives him for his photography but he also documents the limitations of the virtual world.
Here his site, and here some pics.
Want.
Calculator by Dietrich Lubs for Braun
A GOOD DESIGNER
“Designers have the ability to visualize what has never been.” As Bruce Nussbaum said, “Many firms are plagued by articulate and persuasive ‘smart talkers’ who sound good in meetings but get bogged down in abstract complexities.” Good designers are good at what I call inspirational tangibility, “making it real,” whether it be by concretizing with a sketch what would otherwise be abstract thoughts or so many post-its in a meeting, enabling large amounts of complex data to be understood and absorbed quickly with a diagram,
Gray Sky: Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design” Good design: Is...
Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design”
Good design:
- Is innovative - Rams states that possibilities for innovation in design are unlikely to be exhausted since technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design. He also highlights that…
The Cartesian Sprezzident at the controls of ‘Alchemist One’
(via peterhostile)
“The End”, by guilherme.
Ben has been researching VHS labels for a little side project. Making us nostalgic.
Remember how much fun it was, to write up your recording and carefully stick it to that shiny, new cassette?
No quite the same as downloading a torrent and renaming it in Finder ;)
Comic Sans Typographic Specimen Sheet
(Available soon, typophiles—along with Page 2—via Etsy.)
