Song of the week
September 26, 2011 § 1 Comment
Something Gotten Hold Of My Heart by Nick Cave
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September 21, 2011 § Leave a comment
We have seen her work before, illustrating the food habits of famous writers and poets. Now Wendy MacNaughton illustrates in a visually engaging manner the Circles of Influence, created by Michelle Legro and Maria Popova, which reveal the creative encounters and intersections of different writers, scientists, genres and eras.
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Words have a life of their own
September 21, 2011 § 1 Comment
A is for Animation and B for Beautiful spelling-video. Playing with different techniques and material and using the Helvetica font, Italy-based design studio n9ve created Alphabet 2, a video where each letter is animated, representing the meaning of the word itself.
Check out the video:
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Burn your bridges down
September 20, 2011 § Leave a comment
Oh the beauty!
Get a guided tour of the Sydney Opera House, with the help of the Opera’s and Australia’s best artists and what’s probably my favorite song of all times: Nick Cave’s The Ship Song.
Visit the Ship Song Project page
Link courtesy of M.
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A fountain of time
September 15, 2011 § Leave a comment
A fountain at Osaka Station City which serves as a clock.
A fountain of time, whose minutes passes in beautiful patterns of words, numbers, flowers and pictures.
Pretty amazing, don’t you think?
via Design Taxi
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Breaking the norm
September 14, 2011 § 2 Comments
Exploring new frontiers and creating new orders? Photographer Frauke Thielkin uses human bodies to reshape our notion of space and explore the world in a totally different way.
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The museum of obsolete objects
September 6, 2011 § Leave a comment
Some objects just can’t make it. They can’t survive, they are often replaced by newer devices and, thus, they become obsolete. In remembrance of all these once pretty useful objects, digital agency Jung von Matt/Next created the Museum of Obsolete Objects.
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Don’t stop me now ’cause I’m having a good time
September 5, 2011 § Leave a comment
Today, Freddie Mercury would have been 65 years old and Google celebrates the birthday of Queen’s legendary singer with an animated doodle.
Today’s doodle is also accompanied by a blog post from Google, which was written by Queen’s guitarist Brian May.
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