Another beautiful product (soon to be released) from KithKin‘s “Some Rights Reserved” open-source design collection is Matthew Appleton’s “Afterlife” poster – it builds on the growing trend of product dissections for good by depicting the relative geometric footprint of a printer’s many parts as compared to a pencil. The project claims to show how complex […]
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opportunity carbon cost
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webs of influence
I’ve been interested in depictions of the evolution of ideas and cultural movements since posting about Timothy Stotz’s amazingly complex evolutionary diagram of 500 years of art. Here are some other inspiring diagrams of evolution, culminating in the genealogy of Linux distribution, which is the clearest and most accurate because it’s built in to the […]
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visualizing influence
timothy stotz has made a stunning diagram called ‘the flowering staircase‘ to depict the chains of influence in european art from 1435 to 1935. the single image (4 MB download) links well-known painters and sculptors who were in direct contact, collaborated, and influenced each other positively or negatively. while most evolutionary diagrams (aka cladograms or […]
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design for the (tech-savvy) masses
design democracy is a yearly competition based on the belief that mass customization is a viable alternative to mass production. unlike ponoko, this competition is based on free trade in design patterns that you can then make yourself at your local highly computerized wood shop. but given that finding and manufacturing this kind of product […]
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precious stamps
i just got back from a stamp exhibit at tokyo midtown’s design hub gallery – dozens are artists were commissioned to create stamps for the email age, when they become purely objects of art. i am still mesmerized by nagai kentaro’s piece together for peace, a collection of twelve stamps which recreate the chinese zodiac […]
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ipods cause cancer
i first saw japan tobacco’s surreal ‘tobacco etiquette‘ advertising campaign five years ago in the tokyo subway, and i thought it was just a unique and japanese way of discouraging smoking by appealing to a sense of communal responsibility. only yesterday did i see that the anti-smoking vignettes are interspersed with totally unrelated advice against […]
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pop-up catalog
i discovered issey miyake‘s haat store in aoyama (tokyo) – a line of clothing that, unlike pleats please and APOC, is totally dependent on hand-craft. the elaborately wrought pieces are made by hand either in india or japan. the line is designed by makiko minagawa, miyake’s long-time textile designer, and the focus is on the […]
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font quiz
gabriel blue cira designed font flash cards for graphic designers and other ‘yupsters’ (between yuppies and hipsters). he might even make you a set or sell them one day at yupsta.com.
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