Sue Coe, one of the most committed activist artists in America, has during her thirty-five-year career charted an idiosyncratic course through an environment that is at best ambivalent toward art with overt socio-political content.
posted by Trurl
on Sep 1, 2011 -
27 comments
The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so they may be shared in a fun and meaningful way. The goal is to collect and organize all the symbols that form our language into one easy-to-use online library that can be accessed by anyone. All the symbols on their site are completely free to download, and can be used for design projects, architecture presentations, art pieces — just about anything.
posted by netbros
on Jan 11, 2011 -
23 comments
"Pryde and I came across it one day in an old stable, on a sack of fodder. It is a good, hearty, old English name, and it appealed to us, so we adopted it immediately."
That's how
The Beggarstaffs, a short lived but influential paring of graphic designers, got their name.
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posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Jun 16, 2009 -
9 comments
Journalism may be going through a painful period but thanks to the web the once lowly information graphic is finally growing up to be all it never could on paper. Especially the New York Times seems to currently stand out in how frequently and quickly they build amazingly detailed and insightful interactive features. Consider the
tracking of US Airways Flight 1549 or the piece on
raising its engine from the Hudson. Other recent highlights:
9,955,441 parking tickets issues in NYC mapped by street,
The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 — 2008,
Ansel Adams's Yosemite,
the view from the 10-meter platform explained,
A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses 1789 to the Present,
A Map of the number of medals that countries won in summer Olympic Games,
Going to the End of the Line,
The 44 Places to go in 2009, an explanation of
how the Pentagon responded to criticism of then-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld,
The Soyuz Spacecraft,
How the Towers Stood and Fell and
many,
many, more.
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posted by krautland
on Feb 14, 2009 -
16 comments
It's not a bug, it's a feature: Carolin Horn has designed
Anymails, which represents your email messages and folders as micro-organisms. The morphology of the individual organisms and their behaviour within colonies imparts information about the state of your email. You can view QT movies of the application in action (
1,
2), download her
thesis, and download
the Anymails code itself. See some of her other work
here (predominantly in German).
via Madame Martin, the "French Metafilter".
posted by Rumple
on Aug 31, 2007 -
22 comments
Teddy: A sketching interface for 3D freeform design (in Java). Noodle around with the
online applet (see the
tutorial for instructions; there's also a
demo in .avi format), or download the program so you can save your creations. An even niftier upgrade is available,
SmoothTeddy (
.avi demo), but SmoothTeddy doesn't have an online version to play with.
posted by Gator
on Feb 22, 2006 -
11 comments
The Alvin Lustig Archive - "Alvin Lustig's
contributions to the design of books and book jackets, magazines, interiors, and textiles as well as his teachings would have made him a credible candidate for the AIGA Lifetime Achievement award when he was alive...Lustig created monuments of ingenuity and objects of aesthetic pleasure." The archive collects over 400 examples of his book, architectural, and ad-design work (see also AIGA's list of
Lustig's Top-10 designs). Via
HOW magazine...
posted by tpl1212
on Dec 20, 2005 -
5 comments
Did anybody else notice that? Speaking on behalf of .com design interns everywhere, there's really no incentive to try and come up with hot graphics - ours is a thankless job. However, there's still no excuse to be completely lame.
posted by NickBarat
on Nov 15, 2000 -
11 comments
