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A long time favorite. His illustrations seem to add an extra dimension to the beautiful game.

* ... in an "underground" map...

One of the (main) "lessons" of this Design Classic is a little bit counter-intuitive (being a map, and all): doing away with a (previously deemed) fundamental (?) aspect of the intrisic design -- in this case, true, accurate, geography -- can have a beneficial effect in the overall, resulting, evolved, design.

That was the key insight that set Harry Beck's London Underground map above & apart.

Nice "initiation" article/post about "Perceptual Hashing".

Its continuation (of sorts) it's also a worthy read (2nd jump).

True to his style, even at this scale, artist Shepard Fairey's striking street art installation, a Paris building as the canvas.

More info, just after the jump.

The brain is plastic. Here's a "manual" (sort of). With host/"guinea pig" Todd Sampson (and his brain).

... To be seen after the (first) jump:

Love the concept/execution/art. Alex Griendling's "entry" to Iam8bit's (L.A.) exhibit, "Sequel", featuring movie sequels that never were.

Two design favorites (so, a two-for-one here): the striking design of the Forth Bridge ("the dinosaurs are coming/going!") and the minimalistic (in the style of the classic railway art of the 30's and 40's) expressive/impressive graphic prints of Peter McDermott.

A nifty compilation of books that glimpsed the future before it happened, relating/connecting/ascribing each of the literary predictions with the actual/corresponding discovery/invention/emergence.

Complete list on the other side of the jump.

The "missing bits" make the image(s) (Einstein, for example).

By design studio NAU, for Austrian bank Raiffeisen, in Zurich.

How to generate those intricate and detailed patterns.

A poster by Julian Hansen. Big (enough) version on the other side of the first jump.

This organic-looking tent (design/concept by Abeer Seikaly) provides all-weather shelter, while offering such amenities as energy/electricity (solar-powered, battery stored), "running" water (collection and distribution of water, courtesy of the tent's unique design), storage (again, as a by-product of the design), ventilation (again, the design…) and the benefit of natural light (through the controllable tent’s openings).

Its foldable nature/design and use of lightweight fabric implies ease of transport and deployment.

Oh! And it’s also easy on the eye!

The first jump has all the details, photos and schematics.

The final installment.

Greens

Green is labelled as "non-human biological substance, process". Non-human organic stuff and non-human intelligence (my interpretation).

22. Galley.

A (food) plate (viewed from above), defined by a green background. A place to eat. Seems appropriate.

23. Coffee

Coffee. Mug. Green. Check!

25. Autodoc

This is an interesting one. The easy/obvious stuff out of the way first. The (white) cross, defined by a (green) background is widely used in association with medical symbology. So nothing new there... What is really interesting here is the choice of colors. Before going any further, a definition/description of what an Autodoc is/does. It’s an automatic/automated (hence the Auto part of the name) piece of hardware that is able to diagnose/treat patients, without a fully qualified physician present. So. In a way, it’s driven by an Expert System (a form of Artificial Intelligence) or similar type of software. I think that what justifies the green (background, where the cross is “cut”) is that non-human "intelligence" ability/capability.

29A Storage / Organic (Food Stuffs)

A variation/derivation of #29 (Storage). The "something" is now green (instead of grey) so what is contained in the container is (non-human) organic.

Yellows

Yellow is defined as: "harmful, active process: molecular, (heat) atomic, chemical". Or. Simply. Yellow is bad for humans.

[15.] Exhaust

Yellow streams "flowing" (down and) outwards (more on that later), from one extremity of the "safe" (not really, in this case), (red) enclosure. Knowing that yellow means "adverse conditions for humans" than it seems a really good depiction of "Exhaust". The best part, though, is how directionality (in this case "outwards") is "hinted" implicitly without actually (directly) expressing it (through an arrow or triangle, as seen in other, previous, designs). The way the 4 flow streams are pictured can only make sense if they are "exiting" (going "outwards"), because they widen as soon as they leave the "constriction" of the container they are leaving. If, for one second, one paused and entertained the possibility that the "flow" is actually going in the other direction, it would certainly fall apart immediately in the eye of what one knows about fluid(s) behavior (and common sense). So. That small detail (almost unnoticeable) makes all the difference.

[17.] Radiation Hazard

Simple elements in this one. The enclosure is unbroken (meaning a fully pressurized area) but is fully filled with yellow (which means it is adverse to human life). To confirm that, one can see the same figure used in sign/symbol #4 (meaning a, lying down, human being) but all in black (which means "death" – or “dead”). A clear, unambiguous, "keep out" message.

[18.] High Radioactivity

This seems to have a similar meaning (in relation to the previous sign/symbol, #17), but there is, as I see it one major difference that justifies the existence of both signs/symbols. In this one, triangles appear (denoting directionality and pointing inwards) at alternating colors: yellow (hazardous to human life), and black (explicitly: "vacuum, death, hazard", all seeming to apply, in this particular case). So until now. One have: "something very bad directed inward". If one adds to this the four "holes” in the continuity of the protective enclosure (in red), than it seems to follow, logically, that the origin of the "bad stuff" is "outside" the spacecraft. And that is the difference: the origin of the "bad stuff" ("bad stuff" is an over-simplification, OC), in this case, is exogenous, while in the previous one (#17) the "origin" is either a) unknown or b) endogenous (the one I favor).

Usage of both, as examples: #17 could/would/should be used in the vicinity of fuel storage; while #18 would/could/should be used near a place with diminished (or nonexistent) shielding from space radiation.