Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future by Maria Popova Last week marked the 183rd birthday of iconic science fiction writer and futurist Jules Verne, who coined the term “imaginary voyages.” (And Amazon celebrated by offering a slew of his work as free ebooks, which you can still grab.) Today, we turn to the beautiful mid-century illustration of Peter P. 2010 - a compilation of new Warp music - some free MP3 downloads added. 2010 is a compilation of new music from our artists - A primer on some of next year's forthcoming Warp releases. Included is new music from already established acts like Flying Lotus, Bibio and Hudson Mohawke as well as the first rumblings from new signings Gonjasufi, The Hundred In The Hands, Nice Nice, De Tropix, Rustie and more. Comprised almost entirely of previously unreleased material, '2010' will be available at many independent record stores and online retailers from the 7th December. Free MP3 Downloads:
Natural Histories: 500 Years of Rare Science Illustrations by Maria Popova A lavish celebration of the intersection of art, science, and technology. Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library (public library) brings together an extraordinary collection of works from the Rare Book Room and Rare Book Collections of the American Museum of Natural History’s Research Library, spanning five centuries of anthropology, astronomy, earth science, paleontology, and zoology representing all seven continents. Each highlighted work is accompanied by a short essay exploring its significance, what makes it rare — scarcity, uniqueness, age, binding type, size, value, or nature of the illustrations — and its place in natural history. Étienne de Flacourt (1607-1660) Flaucourt's illustrations of animals include the small Madagascar hippopotamus (top row, second from right)
Disturbing Playgrounds That Will Make Your Childhood Seem Happy By Comparison Funny 22 disturbing playgrounds that will make your childhood seem happy by comparison. At the very least, your kids will have more fun than the kids on the Titanic. While bullies and creepy dudes standing 500 feet away with their hands buried deep in their pockets used to be the most unsettling things about a playground, these days they're the least of a kid's concerns. Today's playground designers have apparently taken it upon themselves to torment kids with a whole host of insensitive, perverted, and downright lethal ways to have "fun." Here are the 22 most deranged playthings we could find. Remember them next time you're whining to your therapist about your messed-up childhood.
Input Selector // New Identity - Sella (Jonas Sellami) // Graphic Design Input Selector // New Identity Input Selector is a cultural and electronic music webzine, a podcast, a crew and parties animated by the team and their guests. For the new identity, the aim was to express the fine and precise selection taste of the webzine by going into technical terms. XLR, MIDI and JACK were chosen because of their differences and at the same time the fact they are qualified in the same domain. It means that input selector invites everybody to discover underground electronic music (from non-lovers to addicts).
100 Fresh Book Cover Design Ideas A few months back we showcased a list of 30 Awesome Book Cover Design Ideas to show that how aesthetics are a really good option when comes to cover design. The list was so inspiring so I decided to do a new one with another 100 inspiring book cover designs. Today in this article I compiled the fresh book cover designs from the year 2013 to inspire the graphic designers for more awesome work, so here they are, 100 fresh examples of how some books are using attractive materials as main elements of their design.
YOUNG MAGIC CASSETTE - Leif Podhajsky Young Magic - Cassette Young Magic Limited Edition, Hand Numbered Cassette Tape, Edition of 150. Client - Carpark Records "The Maps mix is a collection of Young Magic rarities, remixes, demos, field recordings, flips, beats, b-sides from Melt and whatever else we made over the last year that didn’t fit the LP. It’s a home for all the other sounds we’ve been making...a rough beat tape of sketches cut together in a moment. Think of it as our sonic scrapbook. ExposeExpress Download here ! This dude is so damn good, I love everything he does. The way he mixes jazzy swing with electro, makes me wanna dance so bad. Whenever I hear a Parov Stelar song, I wish I lived in the 20s and 30s, where men wore suits and women wore expensive dresses and hats, the bars were overloaded with people and smoke and cool moves on the dancefloor. So, does Cat Groove make you wanna move? Check out some older posts we did on this guy here.
Robin Kinross Robin Kinross (born 1949[1]) is an author and publisher on the topic of visual communication and typography. His most significant work is Modern Typography. He is a proprieter of Hyphen Press, which publishes books on design and typography.[2] Alice in Wonderland Illustrated by Ralph Steadman: A 1973 Gem by Maria Popova Down the rabbit hole of creative magic, one truly mad hatter at a time. In the century and a half since Lewis Carroll met little Alice Liddell and imagined around her his Alice in Wonderland, the beloved tale has inspired a wealth of stunning artwork, ranging from John Tenniel’s original illustrations to Leonard Weisgard’s mid-century masterpieces to Salvador Dalí’s little-known heliogravures to Robert Sabuda’s pop-up magic. But among the most singular and weirdly wonderful is the 1973 gem Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland Illustrated by Ralph Steadman (public library; Abe Books). Barely in his mid-thirties at the time, the beloved British cartoonist — best-known today for his collaborations with Hunter S. Thompson and his unmistakable inkblot dog drawings — brings to Carroll’s classic the perfect kind of semi-sensical visual genius, blending the irreverent with the sublime.
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"The future is now" - Nice to meet you! "The future is now" The future is now, is my university degree project.Theme: the Demographic change in 2050. How 1/3 of the people will be over 65. Topics I work with: Ignorance. the people don't think about that. The future as something difficult to imagine. 12 Things They Don't Teach You In School About Being A Designer My wife Andy and I started Paper Leaf in 2009. We were not bad at design (I think we’re pretty damn good now), but we were really green at business. In some ways, our naivety was a bit of a blessing; had we known what we know now, we probably would have talked ourselves out of starting the business. And that would have been a mistake—we love what we get to do. Regardless, there are a number of blunt realities we faced (and still do face) and things we’ve learned in running Paper Leaf that we either never anticipated, or never really bought in to if we read it elsewhere.
Edward Gorey’s Vintage Illustrations for H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds by Maria Popova Two classic masters of the macabre and wonderful, together. Beloved mid-century illustrator Edward Gorey — grim alphabetician, masterful letter-writer, dispenser of visual snark, semi-secret sort-of-pornographer — was born on this day in 1925. During his seven-year stint living in New York City between 1953 and 1960, he worked at the Doubleday art department — which also employed young Andy Warhol — and illustrated a number of books by famous mainstream authors, including the T.