Month: January 2012

  • minusbaby: neophytou: Paul Rand One of my all-time favorite logotypes.

  • minusbaby: neophytou: Paul Rand One of my all-time favorite logotypes.

  • lessgentlemen: Tinker Tailor. Give Uncle Gary his Oscar.

  • lessgentlemen: Tinker Tailor. Give Uncle Gary his Oscar.

  • the body, in its most visceral activation, is not only a surface of inscription, as foucault noted, but an instrument of writing, an inassimilable agent that constantly rewrites history back. andre lepecki, exhausting dance: performance and the politics of movement (via karaj)

  • the body, in its most visceral activation, is not only a surface of inscription, as foucault noted, but an instrument of writing, an inassimilable agent that constantly rewrites history back. andre lepecki, exhausting dance: performance and the politics of movement (via karaj)

  • interactivestuff: SPACE CRUISER from Ivan Safrin and Babycastles (by Ida C. Benedetto) “Space Cruiser is using Ivan Safrin’s creative coding platform ‘Polycode’ to render his game on a 6-projector 4500×4500 pixel screen. Each projector is hooked up to a separate PC running an instance of Polycode and rendering part of the screen,” says Babycastles impresario Syed…

  • Though I’m not really a fan of the game as of yet, this is truly an analog/digital marriage made in maker heaven.

  • elephantcandy: Soundmachines by The Product http://www.the-product.org/soundmachines An instrument for performing electronic music Three units, which are resembling standard record players, translate concentric visual patterns into control signals for further processing in any music software. The rotation of the discs, each holding three tracks, can be synced to a sequencer. The Soundmachines premiered on the Volkswagen…

  • Helvetica began life in 1957 as Neue Haas Grotesk, a comprehensive modernization of Akzidenz Grotesk from 1898. It was conceived by Eduard Hoffmann and executed by Max Miedinger for the Haas foundry in Münchenstein, near Basel, and renamed Helvetica (an amended form of Helvetia, the Latin name for Switzerland) in 1960. It was licensed to…