- ARCHIVE / artefatti grafici
- letters
1st Festival of Letters
- knots and geography
Knots and geography.
A psychologist challenges the Beck gospel of Underground octolinearity. - digital scriptorium
The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloguing. [...]
- codex xcix
Codex xcix is an occasionally updated weblog mostly about the history of visual arts and graphic design. Here all of the posts on C xcix, organized by subject heading (i.e. category) and presented in roughly historic, not temporal, order.
- aiga archives
AIGA Design Archives
- notgeld
Suggerisce PT aka Tasso: Order, Disorder and Notgeld
- beiträge zur typographie
Documents on Font Design in German and English
- marija gimbutas
The primary advocate of the idea that the markings represent writing, and the person who coined the name “Old European Script”, was Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994), an important 20th century archaeologist and advocate of the notion that the Kurgan culture of Central Asia was an early culture of Proto-Indo-Europeans. She reconstructed a hypothetical pre-Indo-European “Old European civilization”, which she defines [...]
- tokens
Denise Schmandt-Besserat is professor emerita of Art and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her field is the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. Schmandt-Besserat’s present interest is the cognitive aspects of the token system that functioned as an extension of the human brain to collect, manipulate, store and [...]
- covers
Scrive mmm: “un sito interessante, un archivio di copertine di libri” – e ha ragione!
- penguins
L’ottimo GT (v. sotto la sua più recente antologia di scritti) segnala, à propos de Penguin
Penguin by Design
e gli slideshow
Experimental Layouts 1948
Penguin Symbols 1963 c
il tutto thanx to David Pearson. - free radicals
Jess Baines looks back at London’s printmaking workshops of the 1960s and 70s, DIY sites of political and community activism that rejected the role of the artist to participate in a network of campaign groups, radical publishers and distributors.
- bart-map
Grazie a PT, segnalo A Makeover for the BART Map: In mid-September [2009], Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) released a redesigned map of its commuter rail system.
- botw
Brands of the World: over 125,000 downloadable logos, all in pristine eps format.
- blurdesign
“Campania blur design.
I progetti trasversali della produzione.
Agenzie, studi, imprese, autori, scuole
Cari colleghi,
dal 5 all’11 Ottobre prossimo l’AIAP terrà a Napoli la Settimana della Grafica nel cui ambito si svolgeranno, mostre, convegni, workshop, seminari; il momento sociale conclusivo consisterà nell’assemblea annuale dell’Associazione.
Nell’ambito di questo evento mi è stata affidata la cura (con la collaborazione di Matilde [...] - facili!
CP mi ha segnalato (tra altri) questi modellini di carta, piuttosto complessi
Yamaha YZF-R1Il Cutty Sark
- matematita
L’amico FrancoB mi ha indirizzato a questo sito, di grande interesse:
”Il progetto Immagini per la matematica si propone di rendere fruibile al pubblico il patrimonio di immagini e animazioni a disposizione del Centro, creando uno strumento per la comunicazione matematica che sia di facile utilizzo per l’utente, ma che nel contempo garantisca standard elevati di [...] - kultur
Kultur is JISC-funded project which is creating a model of an institutional repository for use in the creative and applied arts.
While institutional repositories are proficient in managing text-based research such as articles, books, and theses, they are not yet attuned to the requirements of images and time-based media. The Kultur project aims to change this [...] - paperforest
Ancora CP segnala interessanti ludi cartacei in Paperforest:
IntriCut: The paper work of Aoyama Hina
Embossed Drawings by Simon SchubertIntriCut: The paper work of Aoyama Hina
Friend, Gretchin Lair, twittered an excited alert to me about the hand-cut paper artist above. I believe her exact words were, “Holy cow!” I have to agree. I couldn’t imagine these intricate [...] - menu
dal sito Academia Barilla
Il menu – da non confondere con la lista dei piatti proposti nelle trattorie e nei ristoranti, che ha origini ben più remote – è figlio di una “rivoluzione”: intorno al 1810 il “Servizio alla Francese” con tutte le vivande già presenti in tavola, viene progressivamente sostituito dal “Servizio alla Russa” che [...] - fabrica mak
in Vienna between June 17th – August 16th 2009
Fabrica: For the People, From the People
at the MAK.
The exhibition is a selection of Fabrica’s recent socially concerned work including posters for United Nations on anti-tobacco culture, child injury prevention, road accident prevention and violence prevention, along with video documentaries on vanishing trades, and the user-generated project [...] - officina del volo
Nell’ambito della manifestazione ‘Vola Veloce Varese’, promossa da Regione Lombardia – Assessorato alle Culture, Identità e Autonomie, Provincia e Comune di Varese, in occasione del centenario del primo volo di un pilota italiano, inaugureranno a giugno a Varese, città simbolo dell’industria aereonautica, due percorsi espositivi dedicati al tema del volo, dal taglio diverso, ma complementari:
L’Officina [...] - weskamp
Marcos Weskamp is a Design Engineer who has a deep interest in playing with and visualizing lots of data. He is a self-taught technologist who constantly investigates the fields of Interaction Design and Information Visualization.
- letterpress
Letterpress Printing a Poster with Mike Burton. Shot and edited by Joshua Gerken. Music by The Celebrity Pilots. Commissioned by Joseph Hughes and the KSU Campaign for Change.
Letterpress Poster Printing from Joshua Gerken on Vimeo.