Explore / Tags / magazine. Toggle navigation Tags / magazine ← Prev Next → Find a Tag Popular Tags Equipment Shop Threads and goods for designers like you. Jobs for Designers Ads via The Deck Ads via The Deck Show and tell for designers What are you working on? Company Community Connect. EdTech Index. The Best Design Books of 2012. By Maria Popova From Marshall McLuhan to Frank Lloyd Wright, or what vintage type has to do with the evolution of iconic logos.
After the best science books and the best art books of 2012, the season’s best-of reading lists continue with 10 favorite design books published this year. (Catch up on last year’s reading list here.) Every once in a while, along comes a book-as-artifact that becomes an instant, inextricable necessity in the life of any graphic design aficionado. This season, it’s The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design — an impressive, exhaustive, rigorously researched, and beautifully produced compendium of 500 seminal designs spanning newspapers, magazines, posters, advertisements, typefaces, logos, corporate design, record covers, and moving graphics, examined through 3000 color and 300 black-and-white illustrations in their proper historical and sociocultural context. The Man of Letters or Pierrot's Alphabet (1794) Paul Rand: IBM (1956-1991) Saul Bass: Vertigo (1958) Old phone booths get new life as giant public fish tanks. Phone booths are the appendix of the urban landscape — useless and occasionally full of junk.
So what better way to rehabilitate them than to fill them with fish? The phone booths, not your appendix. Clark Kent will want to steer clear of Osaka, since there’s nowhere for him to change, but everyone else can enjoy these refurbished phone booth aquaria, courtesy of local group Kingyobu (“goldfish club”). They’re kind of like the giant-sized version of those bags of live goldfish you win at the fair, except the booths are outfitted with climate control and aeration, so the fish will still be alive tomorrow.
Jonathan Harris: A Better Way To Tell Stories Online. It has been a real joy to witness our community evolve over the past ten months, from a small gathering of personal friends to the global family of storytellers that Cowbird is today. I built Cowbird because I wanted a beautiful tool that I could use to tell my own stories, and no other tool felt right. I was interested in creating a space on the Web that could be a sanctuary for a deeper, longer-lasting kind of self-expression — a refuge from the clamor, clutter, vitriol, superficiality, and competitiveness that plagues so much of the online world today. Together, I believe we’ve made such a space.
Some of you have written to me and called Cowbird, “churchlike,” or “a contemplative, almost sacred environment,” or simply said, “It’s just so human.” I set out to build a tool, but I realize now that I was actually building a community. Tools are extensions of who we are, and Cowbird is an extension of all of us who use it, who make Cowbird what it is. The other big change is Citizenship. Store. I’m currently showing at the brand new Velcro Gallery down in SOMA in San Francisco.
My work will be hanging from June 2nd through August 26th. A hearty thank you to all those who came out or were there in spirit for my Open Reception on July 16th. I have such a deep sense of gratitude for all the love and support. I can only hope my work was even half as wonderful as you are. A number of you also asked about the book that was on display. The following pieces are for sale as limited edition giclee prints on canvas.
Afrique Giclee print on canvas hand signed and numbered edition of 25 20 x 20 inches Josephine Baker 3000 Giclee print on canvas hand signed and numbered edition of 25 20 x 16 inches Let Go Hello from Bhutan Hush Giclee print on canvas hand signed and numbered edition of 25 18 x 18 inches Timeless Moonlit Walk Giclee print on canvas hand signed and numbered edition of 25 12 x 16 inches A Helping Hand Be Still Wild Presence Swept Away Lovebirds One of these is not like the other… Top 10 Must-See Design Destinations in The World. If you’re daydreaming about your next vacation, and looking for something a little off the beaten path, why not consider embarking on a global design tour? The world is full of inspiring destinations for travelers looking for a recharge, and you only need to do a bit of googling to plan a unique design vacation.
Come along with Inhabitat for a brief tour of our favorite design destinations around the globe – from scuba diving to an amazing underwater art installation in Mexico to jetsetting to an ultra-modern designer hotel that towers over NYC’s iconic High Line park and meandering through the world’s largest wooden structure, which recently rose in Seville. Read on for 10 of our favorite, must-see design destinations!
Parc Güell, Barcelona, Spain Barcelona’s Parc Güell is a 100-year-old architectural and horticultural masterpiece by the city’s master architect, Antoni Gaudi. The High Line and Standard Hotel, New York City Las Pozas Sculpture Garden, Xilitla, Central Mexico. Bret Victor, beast of burden. @andrealyip | visual musings of a health promoter. Major Movements in Philosophy as Minimalist Geometric Graphics. By Maria Popova From relativism to absolutism, or what the geometry of knowledge has to do with negative space.
I have a soft spot for minimalist graphic representations of complex concepts. (Previously: famous lives in pictogram flowcharts; famous personalities in vector illustrations; famous songs as typographic reductions; world statistics as minimalist infographics; anticonsumerist aspirations.) And it hardly gets more complex than the entire school of Western philosophy. But that’s exactly what designer Genis Carreras explores with remarkable visual eloquence in his Philographics project — a series of posters each capturing a single philosophical ideology through simple geometric shapes.
Relativism Points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration. Absolutism An absolute truth is always correct under any condition. Positivism Empiricism Humanism Hedonism Pleasure is the only intrinsic good. 40 Things To Say Before You Die. BZE Brand | Beyond Zero Emissions. Drew Hutton is the President of Lock the Gate Alliance, Spokesperson for Friends of the Earth (Aust) and Australian Environmentalist of the Year 2013.
We talk to him about the lastest news and research on fugitive emissions from Coal seam Gas (CSG) and about his talks at the Sustainable Living Festival 2014. The Lock the Gate Alliance is a national grassroots organisation made up of thousands of individuals and over 160 local groups who are concerned about inappropriate mining. The mission of the Lock the Gate Alliance is to protect Australia’s natural, environmental, cultural and agricultural resources from inappropriate mining and to educate and empower all Australians to demand sustainable solutions to food and energy production. Interview download. Clément Renaud | Clemsos | Internet design research in urban China.
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