Conceptual art from 1670—almost exactly 300 years ahead of its time.
Conceptual art from 1670—almost exactly 300 years ahead of its time.
“The almost impossibly glorious $5 note depicts Electricity Presenting Light to the World. She is flanked by Strength, Fame, and Peace.”
1 Start with needs
2 Do less
3 Design with data
4 Do the hard work to make it simple
5 Iterate. Then iterate again.
6 Build for inclusion
7 Understand context
8 Build digital services, not websites
9 Be consistent, not uniform
10 Make things open: it makes things better
2 Do less
3 Design with data
4 Do the hard work to make it simple
5 Iterate. Then iterate again.
6 Build for inclusion
7 Understand context
8 Build digital services, not websites
9 Be consistent, not uniform
10 Make things open: it makes things better
– Schooled by the British government. (GDS design principles)
By James Jean.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers.
Submitted by Ross.
Charles Harper
The Elephant’s Wish, Bruno Munari. via Brain Pickings.
Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī, Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing (viamapsinchoate)
(via 50watts)
No optical printing system existed at the time, so to create a matte effect, a large mirror was placed at an angle to reflect a piece of artwork while live footage was projected onto the reverse. To expose the projected footage, the silvering on the back of the mirror had to be scraped off in strategically appropriate places. One mistake would ruin the whole mirror.
Metropolis (1927)
commanderspock | yerawizardharry
Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world.
Read more here.
(via interwar)
Oh, Bill Sienkiewicz.
