1g/min is an installation by Albin Karlsson. A machine attached to the ceiling rotates and every minute a one gram of hot glue drops on the floor. (From todayandtomorrow)
Silver Memento: preserve pictures for generations
Just finished up a quick website refresh for my sister-in-law, based on her original design. Fun product with a great personal twist!
Design*Sponge » penny de los santos
If I didn’t live in my current house, I’d want to live here. Just wow.
Innovation in the field of wheelchairs
While I’ve been fortunate enough to not need a wheelchair so far in life, I’ve always been fascinated with their design - particularly the fact that they always look so utilitarian (especially with materials science and design as they are today), and because the user is nearly always at waist height.
Why not turn the tables, and make the wheelchair a thing of beauty, a thing of awe, or a thing to be feared? Make it faster than running, make it easy to elevate the rider above eye level with those around him or her, make it big and loud and with steam coming out from under it.
I’ll have to put pen to paper on this one.
From ragbag:
arial & helvetica -or- helvetica & arial
on friday, i hosted a screening of helvetica for some buddies of mine that didn’t know that there were other typefaces besides times new roman. it turns out, there ARE other typefaces and one of them is helvetica (and another of them is papyrus.)
the documentary does not explore the relationship between helvetica and microsoft’s derivative, arial. so to help ignite the post-viewing dialogue, i made this supplement illustrating the key differences in letterforms. however, in place of any spirited debate, my buddies decided instead to take turns delivering roundhouses to my jaw, saying “a documentary about a font is as interesting as it sounds.” i could not agree more.
Great visualization of the evolution of “On the Origin of Species”
Hand-lettered signs from around the world
Great site chronicling the (dying?) art of hand-lettered signage from around the world. My father was a sign painter when he was young. I always thought it would be an interesting profession: the precision and art of hand-lettering, combined with the out-of-office freedom of painting on-site.
