Month: January 2011

  • bookofjoe: 2010 Social Network World Map

    bookofjoe: 2010 Social Network World Map

  • BMD Love Blog: MoMA acquires digital typeface; what does that mean?

    BMD Love Blog: MoMA acquires digital typeface; what does that mean? bmdesign: Great question from Kottke, great answer from Hoefler. As you might have heard, MoMA recently acquired 23 typefaces for its Architecture and Design collection. I was curious about how such an acquisition works, so I sent a quick email to Jonathan Hoefler, one…

  • albotas: Footage from 8-Bit artist Anthony Michael Sneed’s recent Hell for Hire exhibit. If you don’t remember such NES classics as JFK: The Game, Peephole, and KKKocaine, it’s probably because they only exist in Anthony Michael Sneed’s pixelated brain. [Via Hypebeast] (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • 20110124_features1477 crookedindifference: Remembering a bad week for NASA – Challenger, Columbia, Apollo 1 anniversaries The week ahead is the most depressing time of year for NASA. KPCC’s Nick Roman looks at the anniversaries of the catastrophes that killed 17 astronauts. January 27, Thursday, marks 44 years since the deadly Apollo 1 launchpad fire. January 28,…

  • laughingsquid: Ikea Stores Are Designed Like a Maze

  • Narrative Visualization: Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard – Lapham’s Quarterly

  • Over the past several years, however, we have found a few Donner computers and parts online. After some painstaking restoration work, we now have a working version of a Donner Model 3400 analog computer that essentially does the same thing as the original model used in Tennis for Two. We are now integrating the Donner…

  • ishmaelhallin: From Readymade to Readybought: An Ongoing History of Computer Art JODI in conversation with Niels Van Tomme (via ART PAPERS)

  • tpdsaa: Submitted by k-fo.

  • The result is that many of us find ourselves in a catch 22 position. The best way to prove our capabilities is by creating great work for clients. But how do you convince the client (who has you pigeon-holed in some or other discipline box) to give you the opportunity to do great work? Faced…