clusterflock » graphic design http://www.clusterflock.org a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 tweet of the day http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/tweet-of-the-day-149.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/tweet-of-the-day-149.html#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:25:33 +0000 Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81084

Redacting my junk today to protest SOPA.

— Aaron Winslow (@adwinslow) January 18, 2012

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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).

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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)

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/phonograms.html/feed 3 The Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestler Names http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/the-titanic-taxonomy-of-wrestler-names.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/the-titanic-taxonomy-of-wrestler-names.html#comments Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:46:02 +0000 Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=79331
From Pop Chart Lab: A celebration of 382 noms de guerre from the world of professional wrestling.

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Just a plain old globe. Condition doesn’t really matter.

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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?

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(via)

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/11/photo-out-of-context-96.html/feed 5 How to draw a cloud http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/10/how-to-draw-a-cloud.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/10/how-to-draw-a-cloud.html#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:28:58 +0000 Casey Cichowicz http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=76367 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)

Golden Ration and iCloud

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Update: The story behind the image.

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From a photo-graphic of various hand signals the maitre d’ at New York’s Eleven Madison Park uses to signal the waiters.

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