tweet of the day
Redacting my junk today to protest SOPA.
— Aaron Winslow (@adwinslow) January 18, 2012
U.S. Routes as a Subway Map
Graphic designer Cameron Booth re-imagined the U.S. Highway system as a subway map:
At long last, I present the latest in my series of transit map-styled designs. This time, we have the U.S. Highway system (that’s U.S. Routes, not to be confused with the newer Interstate Highway system – which as most of you well know, I have already mapped).
Phonograms
Patrick Feaster studies the culture of early phonography (the recording and reproduction of sound) and blogs at Phonozoic, where I’ve been hanging out for the past hour or so. At the 2011 conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, Feaster shared “Phonogram Images on Paper: 1250-1950.” You can listen to his presentation and download slides here. Just scroll down a little ways and you’ll find the links.
(via Excavated Shellac)
The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names
From Pop Chart Lab: A celebration of 382 noms de guerre from the world of professional wrestling.
Wanted: Globe
Posted to Dubuque Freecycle list:
Just a plain old globe. Condition doesn’t really matter.
from the comments
Have I mentioned a man I knew who, years ago, worked in what was then styled the multimedia division of a university and who, before that, had studied at the Institute of Design . . . who, instead of counting sheep at bedtime, imagined a grid and methodically filled it in?
photo out of context
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How to draw a cloud
Apparently the golden ratio applies to clouds too. Scott Hanselman has a good post on the similarities of cloud icons. But why the flat bottom? (via The Atlantic)
from the comments
Update: The story behind the image.
Sign Language
From a photo-graphic of various hand signals the maitre d’ at New York’s Eleven Madison Park uses to signal the waiters.
Eric Trabuchi’s Truck Alphabet
From a compendium of graphical alphabets. (Probably the most creative is one about halfway down comprised of a single neon light fabricated in such a way as to form a letter of the alphabet depending how you hold it.)
(via @khoi)
Genis Carreras, Philographics
– a series of posters each capturing a single philosophical ideology through simple geometric shapes.
Did Luke post this already?
(via @tcarmody)
if the world’s population lived in one city
(via @mattyglesias)
Tat Musing
“O, lady on bus, I think one day you will regret your cupcake tattoo.”
My friend Alison. Musing en route home.
I told Alison I’d thought long and hard before I got my own tat back in the wayback days.
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What if the U.S.D.A subsidized gardens?
Roger Doiron of Kitchen Gardeners International, a Maine-based nonprofit, has put together this nifty graphic that shows the planting layout of the White House vegetable garden – which is more an ideal than a typical garden, but not uncommon in its choice of plants – and then re-imagines how it would look if it were to reflect the crops that the federal government supports. The change is pretty stark. The data is culled from the Environmental Working Group’s fantastic farm subsidy database.
This hits straight to the heart of the heartland.
R. Luke Dubois: “A More Perfect Union”
The Web Urbanist on A More Perfect Union, a project by R. Luke Dubois:
Touching and, at times, hilarious, these keyword maps by R. Luke Dubois associate each town with the terms most often used by locals to describe themselves and their desired partners on their online dating profiles. Dubois joined 21 dating websites and analyzed the language used in 21 million profiles to come up with the data, which was then displayed on maps. Chicagoans say things like “prankster”, “pizza”, “smoker” and “synagogue” while Central Texans are all about “churches”, “boundaries”, “barbecue” and “Madonna” – the latter presumably referring to the Virgin, not the pop star.
Elementar
Gustavo Ferreira’s new font system for Typotheque.
Elementar was designed to bring more typographic flexibility to digital screens. It increases the available range of possibilities by exploring the pixel grid systematically using combinations of basic parameters. This parametric approach enables the generation of thousands of single fonts in different styles, heights, weights, widths, element shapes etc.
892 Unique Ways to Partition A 3×4 Grid
Shroud of Turin replica coming to Galena
During Holy Week, St. Matthew Lutheran Church will present a full-size replica of the Shroud of Turin, accurate to the smallest detail. Measuring 14.5 feet by four feet, and printed on fabric from the most accurate color photographs of the Shroud ever taken.
Philosophy Referee Hand Signals
(via marginal revolution)
Bieber Face
From: Simon Dempsey
Date: Thursday 31 March 2011 12.37pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: No Subject
Did you draw Justin Biebers face on all the images in my stock images folder and save them over my files?
From: David Thorne
Date: Thursday 31 March 2011 12.44pm
To: Simon Dempsey
Subject: Re: No Subject
Yes.
(thanks, Joel)
In and Out with Dick and Jane
Ross MacDonald, the award-winning illustrator, and James Victore, the celebrated graphic designer, have gotten together to create a parody featuring the classic kids’ book characters Dick and Jane. This time around, though, our straitlaced protagonists are venturing into some rather dark, twisted, and bawdy places. The images are perfectly rendered in warm, nostalgic shades, and the tone of the text is sweet and simple, but the content leans toward sex, drugs, and violence, with healthy doses of innuendo. To top it off, this laugh-out-loud satire is situated inside a handsome, imitation-cloth volume resembling an old-fashioned kids’ book.
You can buy the book here.
(via @gary_hustwit)
I don’t remember where I found this
iPad Letterpress App!
Remember when I posted about Hatch Show Print and their amazing old-fashioned letterpress art? Very soon, you’ll be able to create your very own cool art prints using traditional letterpress techniques . . . on your iPad. (This might be a reason for me to BUY an iPad.) Check out LetterMPress and consider backing this project:
How long do animals live?
From a post at Information is Beautiful about the history of information graphics:
Then there’s ISOTYPE — the International System Of TYpographic Picture Education. It was an early infographical form, originated in the 1930s by Austrian philosopher and curator Otto Neurath “as a symbolic way of representing quantitative information via easily interpretable icons.” Again, it’s eye-popping how modern these images look. Despite being fashioned from woodcuts and hand-printing methods. Gorgeous.
(via @GKellyDesigns, via Erstwhile & dear)
