Saturday, March 5, 2011
works on cardboard by EVOL #contemporaryart #armoryshow #nyc
Works on cardboard showing at the #voltany2011 show created with intricate stencils.
Helvetica in the NYC subway
How Helvetica Took Over the Subway - NYTimes.com:
"Mr. Shaw says the subway design team original chose Standard as the universal typeface in 1966, not Helvetica. A manual of that time declared that “of the various weights of sans serif available, Standard Medium has been found to offer the easiest legibility from any angle, whether the passenger is standing, walking or riding.” (Sign legibility when your audience is in motion continues to be a vexing problem.)
Helvetica was originally created in Switzerland. It was a neutral typeface from a neutral country and gained runaway popularity starting in the 1960s for its modern grace. But the subway system looked elsewhere."
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| Helvetica only became the standard typeface for the subway system in recent decades. (Photo: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) |
"Mr. Shaw says the subway design team original chose Standard as the universal typeface in 1966, not Helvetica. A manual of that time declared that “of the various weights of sans serif available, Standard Medium has been found to offer the easiest legibility from any angle, whether the passenger is standing, walking or riding.” (Sign legibility when your audience is in motion continues to be a vexing problem.)
Helvetica was originally created in Switzerland. It was a neutral typeface from a neutral country and gained runaway popularity starting in the 1960s for its modern grace. But the subway system looked elsewhere."
Mille Fleurs Rococo 'Floral' Print OP II - Blue 1 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! on we heart it / visual bookmark #7470364
8 Beautiful Area Rugs by Anthropologie … | All Women Stalk
8 Beautiful Area Rugs by Anthropologie … | All Women Stalk:
"Price: $398.00 at anthropologie.com
It’s impossible to say in which color this throw rug looks best — the deep red on the creamy background, or the olive green, or the navy? Perhaps it’s the cream motif on the dark brown background"
It’s impossible to say in which color this throw rug looks best — the deep red on the creamy background, or the olive green, or the navy? Perhaps it’s the cream motif on the dark brown background"
herringbone pattern: #braiding #hair like the stars
The Style Post: Braid in a herringbone pattern: the stars launch the new hair trend 2011:
"It starts by making a beautiful tail secured with rubber bands. At this point is divided into two big sections and each of these strands are separated by a second much smaller. The plot then consists of the right to lock big lock with little left and vice versa, until you reach the end of the tail."
Friday, March 4, 2011
Honeycomb pattern fire opal gemstone from Ethiopia
1$NR~RARE WELO OPAL~ HONEYCOMB REVERSE FIRE PATTERN~2.4CT:
"DESCRIPTION: High grade Ethiopian Rare Welo crystal opal cabochon. Honeycomb pattern fire and reverse honeycomb fire in the webbing.Slightly directional fire."
The Winner @volta show in NYC #volta @jillsylvia
My choice for winner of the Volta NY 2011 show. Artwork by Jill Sylvia: Magrorocca, Milan
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| One of my favorite pieces is this bit of ledger book with the cells cut out with an exacto-blade. These holes are assembled together for another art piece on the other side of the booth. |
Armory show pier 92 upstairs
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| Very cool wire sculptures that were found in Philadelphia (they are marked "anonymous"). |
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| The gallery will issue a catalog of the work later this year. |
Volta art show
More from the Volta Art Show on 34th Street. This is from the Fine Art Society (dealers since 1876) at 148 Bond Street London. The galleries at the Volta show feature one artist, so there are several similar pieces.
Moiré #pattern @facebook
Moiré pattern
Fcebook now syphons off wikipedia content and just sticks it on a page to leech off of. imho
Fcebook now syphons off wikipedia content and just sticks it on a page to leech off of. imho
Armory Show Thursday Evening #nyc #armoryshow
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Smaller pieces by Rachel Whiteread that might actually fit inside your house. There is another piece at the Volta show by Fabio Viale that looks exactly like styrofoam that's actually made out of white marble. A milk crate that was made of black marble looks indistinguishable from real plastic. |
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| stainless steel box with different sized magnets, simply. They wrapped around corners nicely |
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Museo Soumaya in Mexico City - #honeycomb #pattern - WSJ.com
Emperor's New Museum | Museo Soumaya - WSJ.com
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Museo Soumaya is Mexico City's new art museum, which cost an estimated $70 million to construct with this sinuous surface of aluminum panels in a hexagonal honeycomb pattern. The museum will be a contemporary home to an eclectic private collection of some 66,000 pieces: Da Vincis and Toulouse-Lautrecs, Picassos and Dalís, Riveras and Renoirs, religious relics and even a treasure of coins from the viceroys of Spain. A Rodin collection—the second-largest in the world, the largest in private hands—sits perched on the sixth floor, boasting works like "The Kiss."
visual patterns = shape of the visual network architecture
Cave art and acid trips: The math they didn't teach you in school | WBEZ:
"Basically, as excitation ripples through our neural networks, it makes actual patterns in there – often stripes or a regular series of blobs – of firing or resting neurons. Then, because of the way our visual network is designed, those patterns appear to our eyes as spirals, funnels and tunnels, honeycombs or cobwebs. In fact, those four patterns seem to be pretty much it: Our brain architecture is capable of producing only variations on those four themes."
Generative art on iPad
#art #generativeart #iPad @apple
There's a Thicket for that | AudioFile | Colorado Springs Independent
There's a Thicket for that | AudioFile | Colorado Springs Independent
The Italian company Etro is known for its different types of paisleys
Inside Beat: "Etro (Italian company) is known for its textiles … different types of paisleys, especially. The brand definitely helped bring paisley into the mainstream."
Vote in our #Contest to #Design the best #Paisley #Fabric! - Spoonflower blog
Vote in our contest to design the best paisley fabric! - Spoonflower blog: 
"Vote in our contest to design the best paisley fabric!"
Spoonflower Paisley Fabric Contest
Images will take a moment to load!
Designs appear in a different order for each person who votes. This contest is for paisley fabric designs.
Vote for as many or as few entries as you like by clicking on the images you like best. A green box will appear around the design you select for voting.
Your votes are submitted only after you reach the end of the voting pages and click the button to submit your votes. We will announce the winning fabric in our email on Thursday, March 10th.
All fabrics in this round are previewed using the scale of a quarter yard (21"x18").
Fabric craft from leftovers
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
#Dror Unveils His Space #Truss #Geometry #flatpack #prefab
Dror Unveils His Space Truss Geometry and A Revolutionary New Way to Build: by Jacob Slevin
QuaDror from Dror on Vimeo.
The designer presented his system at the New Museum last night. Dror was clear about the fact that QuaDror is revolutionary in application but that the system is as old as Euclid - a geometric arrangement of triangles which can reduce the amount material needed to support a load.
QuaDror from Dror on Vimeo.
Dror was very well spoken at the presentation in the belly of the New Museum on the Bowery in New York City last night. The designer describes his studio and the creative process.
Seamless #Pattern Generator = free #graphicdesign #tiling #backgrounds
Amazing Free Seamless Pattern Generator Templates for Illustrator | Vectips
I have been looking for software like this for a long time. This creates several "wallpaper groups" (see wikipedia article) which is the strange name to describe the 17 possible variations of putting a group of tiles together in a seamless pattern by rotation, flip, transposition (slide and a combination of these transformations.
This book was "only" $80 a few years ago. Drop dead gorgeous pics.
I have been looking for software like this for a long time. This creates several "wallpaper groups" (see wikipedia article) which is the strange name to describe the 17 possible variations of putting a group of tiles together in a seamless pattern by rotation, flip, transposition (slide and a combination of these transformations.
This book was "only" $80 a few years ago. Drop dead gorgeous pics.
Knitting Patterns #dolls #sewing
Alan Dart Knitting Patterns Rapidshare Hotfile and Fileserve Free Full Downloads - WorldsDown:
"Over sixty patterns for knitted doll clothes"
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BgPatterns — FREE online seamless #Background #Pattern generator
Background Patterns Maker:
BgPatterns is a tiny web app for making seamless background patterns in a few clicks. It was created mostly for fun and experimentation by Sergii Iavorskyi.
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