2014 • 04 • 01  permalink
 sei off

The last days of Seinfeld, photographed/documented for posterity, from the inside.

By David Hume Kennerly.

2014 • 03 • 31  permalink
 projection

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.

2014 • 03 • 28  permalink
2014 • 03 • 27  permalink

Type meets the Periodic Table.

To list:

100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.

By Cam Wilde.

 periodic table of typefaces
2014 • 03 • 21  permalink

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":

 the shape of song: madonna

Contrasting with, Chopin, "Mazurka in F# Minor":

 the shape of song: chopin
2014 • 03 • 20  permalink

In depth, with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Mind opening. Genious stuff.

2014 • 03 • 19  permalink

Live Ink technology proposes a (research-backed) novel/alternate way to present/display text. One that claims a better reading experience, in all its vectors (ease/speed, proficiency/efficiency, comprehension/retention, etc).

This technique takes advantage of how the brain and eyes work to provide a more "natural" way to structure (the reading) text.

In order to achieve this/these effect/effects, text in the traditonal block format is converted/transformed, by proprietary/patented algorithms, into cascading-style formatted text.

Example/sample:

 live ink
2014 • 03 • 18  permalink
 ale giorgini's complementary movie posters

Negative and positive space become one and same, in the creative/original/stylized/minimalistic movie (and TV) posters of artist/illustrator Ale Giorgini.

2014 • 03 • 17  permalink

André Boto's Photoshop skills, in under 5 minutes:

2014 • 03 • 14  permalink
 hope little's tranimals

More quality polygonal illustrations. This time from Hope Little's portfolio.

2014 • 03 • 12  permalink

you can't be better without being different

2014 • 03 • 07  permalink
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