design
"Storyboarding the Simpsons Way" (by Chris Roman) presents inside notes on the storyboarding process used when doing The Simpsons.
While a valuable resource for anyone interested in storyboarding and visual storytelling, it also carries other, interesting, insights, applicable in other design (as a wider concept) areas.
From a preset set of "rules", Siggi Eggertson creates beautiful illustrations, that, somehow, seem to benefit from those, self-imposed, limitations.
Just 2 examples.
Only triangles:
Horizontal and vertical lines, 45º lines and quarter circles (mostly):
Water from air, where it is most needed.
In their own words:
'WarkaWater' is a project conceived for the mountainous regions in Ethiopia, where women and children walk several hours to collect water. To ease this dramatic condition, the studio ‘Architecture and Vision’ is developing the project ‘WarkaWater’ which is harvesting potable water from the air and honors the disappearing Ethiopian warka trees. The 9 m tall bamboo framework has a special fabric hanging inside capable to collect potable water from the air by condensation. The lightweight structure is designed with parametric computing, but can be built with local skills and materials by the village inhabitants.
Apart from the high praise for the noble idea, notable mentions also for the elegant/simple/sustainable/beautiful design and execution.
The best part of this one: the clever use of the limited color palette.
Beautiful version of Werner Graul's original Metropolis poster.
Benefiting from, and, inspired by, a multistable perceptual phenomenon, explored by, amongst others, M. C. Escher and Roger Penrose. The font's design "plays" with this effect to create/achieve a typeface that can't exist in the real/physical world.
Dubbed Frustro.
Designed by Márton Hegedűs.
On why Hello Kitty doesn't have a mouth, Kitty's designer/illustrator, Yuko Yamaguchi, replied:
It's so that people who look at her can project their own feelings onto her face, because she has an expressionless face....
The absence as a placeholder for imagination. As a way of letting the beholder fill in the gaps. To imagine/project the mood. To mirror the self.
Type meets the Periodic Table.
To list:
100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.
By Cam Wilde.
An interesting visualization technique that exposes regularities/patterns and repetition in musical compositions.
From the source:
The diagrams in The Shape of Song display musical form as a sequence of translucent arches. Each arch connects two repeated, identical passages of a composition. By using repeated passages as signposts, the diagram illustrates the deep structure of the composition.
Below, Madonna, "Like A Prayer":
Contrasting with, Chopin, "Mazurka in F# Minor":
