Blue Note: The Movie
An animated remake of Reid Miles’ iconic Blue Note album covers. See Yummy Fresh Grain’s post for background info and related projects.
[via Yummy Fresh grain feed!]
Archived entries for design
Super-Incredible Activity Book for Creatives
Font and image resource Veer offers up the 180-page Super-Incredible Activity Book for Creatives, available in PDF or online/interactive formats. Every creative needs a little Zoooom! Smash! Kapow! once in awhile.
Eight Diagrams of the Future
Lebbeus Woods EIGHT DIAGRAMS OF THE FUTURE
I am putting forward eight diagrams—the very best, most accurately constructed diagrams of the future I am capable of devising—in order to help us know what it might be. Such knowledge may serve us well. Or it may not. Knowledge always cuts both ways.
To some of you, this might seem a variation on the Rorschach test, that is, an essentially psychological exercise. To others, it might seem like the mystical reading of tea leaves, or the entrails of a ritually sacrificed goat. Fair enough, but I should note that in both of those situations, the material is created accidentally, or—if you prefer—randomly. The eight diagrams are the products of conscious design.
Another reference comes to mind, though it, too, may be only distantly related to the eight diagrams: The Glass Bead Game devised by writer Hermann Hesse. In Hesse’s novel, “the exact nature of the game (quoting Wikipedia) remains elusive and (its) devotees occupy a special school…. The rules of the game are only alluded to, and are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. Essentially the game is an abstract synthesis of all arts and scholarship. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics.”
Diagram 3:
University Websites
To be more accurate, you should substitute the title “THINGS PEOPLE WHO READ XKCD GO TO THE SITE LOOKING FOR” (given that most university websites are primarily about marketing or athletics).
[via xkcd]
Extra-Alphabetical Ordering Systems
Aaron Britt at Dwell Magazine discusses their research office’s practice of organizing books by color.
We’ve organized our bookshelf by color for some time here at Dwell. And to be fair, it looks great. As visitors pass the design wall, the current issue of the magazine tacked up in its unbound state, they’re met with a rack of chromatic harmony. Hell, we even put a picture of the shelf in the March 08 issue of the magazine.
Includes a link to Design Observer’s discussion of various organizational systems for books as well as some images of San Francisco’s Adobe Bookstore much-publicized by-color experiment.
(Personally, I don’t have much of an organizational system beyond saying,
I think it’s on campus.
if I’m at home and
I think it’s at home.
if I’m on campus. If I were actually organized, I’d shift to the by-color method because I can usually visualize the cover of what I’m looking for.
[via http://www.dwell.com/]
Singing Fingers
[via Designboom]
