Observed | October 06
See some of the entries in National Geographic’s 2017 Nature Photographer of the Year contest. [BV]
Changing the math on gerrymandering: a visual guide to redistricting shows what a proper Congressional district might look like. [BV]
“This guy is the best”: best-selling Instagram poet Rupi Kaur
wants Peter Mendelsund to design her next book. [BE]
Observed | October 05
In 1930, Alexander Calder became a married man. In 1931, he became an abstract artist. These were
the foundations on which he would build for the rest of his life. (via
Arts and Letters Daily) [BV]
From book critiques to music choices, computation is changing aesthetics.
Does increasingly average perfection lie ahead? [BV]
One hundred and fifty seven
shades of grey. [JH]
Observed | October 04
A celebration of the human brain, consciousness, and failure or:
How to build a self-conscious machine. [BV]
“Verbs like ‘hacking’, ‘hustling’, and ‘disrupting’ are particularly galling, as they absolve their practitioners of the obligation to build skills and understand systems before performing design.”
One student’s reflection on The Next Stage. [BV]
How the Russian Revolution
spurred mid-century design. [BV]
Observed | October 03
The
incredible beauty of nature, exposed in macro photos of peacock feathers. [BV]
An appeal to
abolish the term “human-centered design”. Who is the human? [JH]
Circadian Rhythms, Illustrated:
A graphic look into the brain’s molecular clock—research that contributed to one of this year’s Nobel Prizes. [BV]
Observed | October 02
Can design be masochistic?
Apparently, it can. [JH]
The design Mecca otherwise knows as
West Hollywood. [JH]
What to buy to look like a
female architect, according to The Cut. [MB]
An
incredible new book about design in North Korea.
More here. [JH]
Observed | September 29
Americans
draw famous logos from memory. [BV]
The Stories Behind a Line is a data visualization narrative of six asylum seekers’ routes to Italy. [BV]
Books to help
fight inequality with design. [MPL]
Observed | September 28
Gif posters, for scientists. [JH]
Stefan Sagmeister “disrupts” Instagram as a space for online critique. [JH]
Learning from the late great
Bill Moggridge. [MB]
RIP Hugh Hefner, who redefined a very particular kind of, um, visual journalism. (And for his final exit, Mr. Hefner will be buried in Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, where he bought the mausoleum drawer next to Marilyn Monroe.) [JH]
Observed | September 27
Seven designers draw their
code of ethics. [MPL]
Nearly 4,000 pages of Paul Klee’s notebooks, now
online. [MB]
In Finland,
students design furniture for displaced people. [JH]
“
The Expanding Airport” is a short 1958 film by Charles and Ray Eames to support Eero Saarinen’s then-revolutionary design proposal for Washington’s Dulles Airport. [MB]
Observed | September 26
Every cover of
every British underground paper. [MPL]
Is there a punctuation mark for that?
Actually, yes. An online showcase of unused punctuation marks suggests they would improve our written communication. [BV]
If Apple were taking an elementary interaction design class today,
it would fail. [JH]
