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An exploration of human emotion, in six movements by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. This site is an engrossing dynamic visual representation of the emotional state of the internet.
http://www.wefeelfine.org/
A fascinating and visually stunning blog about landscape architecture and related fields such as horticulture, cartography, and urban planning.
http://pruned.blogspot.com/
Always full of intriguing images, this blog covers the intersections of design, information visualization and visual communication.
http://infosthetics.com/
Jackson Pollack
Just try it!
http://jacksonpollock.org/
NYC Architects
Archival images of important New York City buildings.
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/
Ihabitat
A weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.
http://www.inhabitat.com
Spirograph
The classic design toy brought to you in a digital format by Dartmouth's Math department.
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~dlittle/java/SpiroGraph
Bentley Snow Crystal Collection
The Buffalo Museum of Science provides incredible close-ups of snow crystals.
http://informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/abbas/bms/index.htm
The
Interstitial Library
by Christine Hill and Shelley Jackson
A library, perhaps, in a parallel universe
http://interstitiallibrary.com/
PostSecret
Illustrated true secrets scanned from postcards. Open
for submissions.
http://www.postsecret.com
You
Are Beautiful
Fed up with how brands are appropriating street art?
use stickers, installation and billboards to proclaim
"you are beautiful."
http://www.you-are-beautiful.com
Lotus
Blossom
by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Web-based flash animation with text and music, for the
seeker in us all!
http://www.yhchang.com/LOTUS_BLOSSOM.html
Worldprocessor
From the "About" link:
"This project started some eight years ago.
An attempt to do justice to the term 'political' and
'geo-political'
globe. Trying to tell the lie (of abstraction and visualization)
that tells the truth. By now there are more than 200
different globes."
http://worldprocessor.com/about.htm
Baby Name Wizard
NAME VOYAGER
Explore the sea of names, letter by letter...watch trends
rise and fall, and dive in deeper to see your favorite
name's place in the historical tides.
The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager is an interactive
portrait of America's name choices. Start with a "sea"
of nearly 5000 names. Type a letter, and you'll zoom
in to focus on how that initial has been used over the
past century. Then type a few more letters, or a name.
Each stripe is a timeline of one name, its width reflecting
the name's changing popularity. If a name intrigues
you, click on its stripe for a closer look.
http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html
Today's Front Pages
Front pages from Newspaper's around the world.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/
PollingReport.com
"An independent, nonpartisan resource
on trends in American public opinion."
http://www.pollingreport.com/
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SPECIMEN DAYS
by Michael Cunningham
New York City dwellers and lovers will be mesmerized by this speculative novel, which takes place in the past, near present, and future of the metropolis. The brilliant treatment of the iconic (and local--he worked just down the street) Walt Whitman in the novel reminds the reader that we all are loving, cosmic dust, containing multitudes.
LOCAS: THE MAGGIE AND HOPEY STORIES
by Jaimie Hernandez
This mega tome collects the Love & Rockets comics' stories of Maggie and Hopey, a couple of queer, punk-rock, Californian Chicanas. Their odyssey depicts SoCal gentrification, gangs, good old sci fi weirdness, international intrigue, and the adventures and travails of women musicians, wrestlers, and mechanics, to name just a few. So much for the theory that only women can sensitively and acutely tell women's stories.
MARGARET KILGALLEN: IN THE SWEET BYE AND BYE
A gorgeous catalog accompanying the exhibit at CALARTS' REDCAT gallery in Los Angeles in 2005. Kilgallen's interests included folklore, craftsmanship and letterpress printing. She painted huge, bright murals and small portraits of women, wanderers, surfers and hobos.
VINYL WILL KILL! AN INSIDER LOOK AT THE DESIGNER TOY PHENOMENON
Published by the vanguard "Design Exchange" Hong Kong collective, this book beautifully covers the designer and artist toy phenomenon found in stores like Toy Tokyo and Kid Robot by artists like Tim Biskup, Daniel Clowes, Gary Baseman, et al.
VOLUME MAGAZINE "architecture must change / magazines must change"
One of the most unique personality-driven magazines to emerge recently, Archis--driven by Rem Koolhaas and OMA-- has morphed into Volume, whose manifesto was recently announced at Columbia University.
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/
(click Publications).
Check out the latest issue at the Info/Ref desk on display.
DOT DOT DOT
In the spirit of Zines and DIY, Amsterdam's delightful design journal DOT DOT DOT, has won me over recently with its blend of romantic visual history and contemporary design philosophy. This may be the journal to replace the recently defunct Emigre.
GRAPHIC
What's not to love about deluxe periodicals from Europe--Amsterdam in
particular? GRAPHIC gets bigger and bolder with every new issue, bringing page after page of international design coverage from rising and established stars. If you enjoy Graphis, Eye, or Print, check this one out.
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