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More quality polygonal illustrations. This time from Hope Little's portfolio.
Incredibly detailed, high quality photos, capturing the fleeting beauty of real snow crystals. By Kenneth G. Libbrecht.
Clever, ingeniously designed, stackable blocks, assembled from cardboard.
Allowing for great building expressiveness, ranging from the most basic makeshift constructions to the more-or-less "permanent" structures, in the most varied forms and shapes.
From an initial design by Jef Raskin.
Brazilian club Corinthians (Sport Club Corinthians Paulista) immortalized 12 of the team's most memorable goals, in an initiative dubbed The Goal of the Wall (Gol de Muro).
Described/defined as:
The Goal of the Wall is scored with sweat and courage. It could be scored with a heel pass, but not necessarily, it is. It is considered the ones scored with the foot, head, shin, with that little part of the toe´s broken nail or anything else that could be done. Eventually scored in the additional time in very desperate moments. It is the breath taking one, which turns into screams, songs and widespread euphoria. It is intrinsically linked to People´s Republic of Corinthians. Is an emblematic goal that decides and moves the crowd.
Using walls as the canvas, 12 evocative, atmospheric, almost ethereal, goal-related moments, were captured and pictured for posterity:
Above, Sócrates' goal, Corinthians 1 vs 1 São Paulo (1983·12·14).
Below, Tupãzinho's goal, Corinthians 1 vs 0 São Paulo (1990·12·16):
Neto's goal, Corinthians 3 vs 2 Flamengo (1991·05·05):
Ricardinho's goal, Corinthians 2 vs 1 Santos (2001·05·13):
Adam Benton's tentative design of a future iMac, for MacFormat magazine.
Some great illustrations, showcasing the polygonal technique, in Tom Vasquez portfolio.
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From Malaysian architect/designer Edward Chew, to win the (2011) Grand Prize in the Bright Ideas Lighting Design Competition.
This origami lamp is the product of clever design, spawning from recycled Tetra Pak packages cutted into strips and then folded into triangles. These were then assembled to form the final, spherical, piece, without the use of any adhesives whatsoever.
Bird's-eye view:
(ZZ)Zooming in:
Prints and Tees available.
Jerry Seinfeld's apartment, by Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde. Handmade originals can be purchased through his Etsy store.
Love this! A proposal/concept to improve/simplify the alphabet as we know it. First presented in 1950, by Bradbury Thompson, it seems to remain, however, just an(other) idea.
From the source:
To remedy this, Alphabet 26, a plan based upon the logic of consistency, proposed that of the 19 letters that have dissimilar symbols 15 letters should use the uppercase designs [black letters below] and 4 letters should use the lowercase designs [green letters]. The other 7 letters already have identical symbols [blue letters].
The departing premise for such a solution, was the idea that, being the alphabet one of the ultimate objects of (human) design, it clearly/seemingly violates the principle of constancy/consistency, by having two different ways of representing the same symbol/sound.
In other words. Having, actually, 2 alphabets, instead of one (and 45 symbols to represent 26 letters).
High quality, high-def, 360º cycloramas/panoramas made for Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. By Yanick Dusseault.
A resonating Ira Glass quote. In a Sawyer Hollenshead work/poster.
Or. How to make procrastination work for, instead of, against you.
Directly from the author's pen:
I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it? Because I finally found some uncommitted time? Wrong. I have papers to grade, textbook orders to fill out, an NSF proposal to referee, dissertation drafts to read. I am working on this essay as a way of not doing all of those things. This is the essence of what I call structured procrastination, an amazing strategy I have discovered that converts procrastinators into effective human beings, respected and admired for all that they can accomplish and the good use they make of time.
