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modern british

sp — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:03:28 +0000

Modern British Posters: A new book explores the interaction between modern art, graphic design and the utopian vision of Britain in the twentieth century.

kare

sp — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:22:25 +0000

Susan Kare – User Interface Graphics

letters

sp — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:40:46 +0000

1st Festival of Letters

knots and geography

sp — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:01:03 +0000

Knots and geography.
A psychologist challenges the Beck gospel of Underground octolinearity.

digital scriptorium

sp — Sun, 16 May 2010 07:29:52 +0000

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. Presently viewable on the DS website are records for 5,300 manuscripts and for 24,300 images.

codex xcix

sp — Sat, 15 May 2010 17:22:31 +0000

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

sp — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:22:06 +0000

AIGA Design Archives

notgeld

sp — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:49:57 +0000

Suggerisce PT aka Tasso: Order, Disorder and Notgeld

beiträge zur typographie

sp — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:25:29 +0000

Documents on Font Design in German and English

marija gimbutas

sp — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:02:24 +0000

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 as having occupied the area between the Dniester valley and the Sicily-Crete line. Gimbutas observed that neolithic European iconography was predominantly female—a trend also visible in the inscribed figurines of the Vinča culture— and concluded the existence of a “matristic” (woman-centered, but not necessarily matriarchal) culture that worshipped a range of goddesses and gods. (Gimbutas did not posit a single universal Great Goddess.) She also incorporated the Vinča markings into her model of Old Europe, suggesting that they might either be the writing system for an Old European language, or, more probably, a kind of “pre-writing” symbolic system. (fonte)