Observed | April 03
Can computer chips design themselves? [JH]
From Frasier to Veep:
Imagining your favorite television characters in a pandemic. [JH]
Observed | April 02
NASA’s “Worm” logo has returned! But the sad old “Meatball” remains the primary mark. (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
Annals of virus visualization: Center for Disease Control designers create branding coordinated to work with the now-iconic illustration. [JH]
Observed | April 01
Mad Max meets Little House on the Prairie:
how to make your own face mask. [JH]
Observed | March 31
Michael Sorkin’s list of
two hundred fifty things every architect should know. [BV]
Well, it took four years…but the Library of Congress
solved another Mystery Photo Contest entry! [BV]
Observed | March 27
When the SXSW Film Festival was cancelled, many filmmakers were left without a way to debut their work—so our friends at Mailchimp stepped in.
Watch them all now. [JH]
Observed | March 24
The final lecture in the Walker Art Center’s Insights Design Lecture Series with
Amsterdam-based designer Ruben Pater will be streamed live and for free on March 31. [JH]
Observed | March 23
British experience designers Bomoas and Parr launch
The Fountain of Hygiene competition, calling for designers to propose new forms of hand-sanitizer pumps as well as more creative hygiene solutions. [JH]
Los Angeles-based artists Juan Delcan and Valentina Izaguirre created an animated video (shot with a iphone) that
uses matches to illustrate the impact of social distancing. [JH]
Observed | March 20
Emerging artists pay it forward during the health crisis by buying each other‘s work on Instagram. [JH]
Watch Charles and Ray Eames ‘
Solar Do-Nothing Machine’ because ‘toys and games are the prelude to serious ideas’. [BV]
On this week’s
New Yorker cover
Christoph Niemann takes on the spread of the novel coronavirus, evoking a world in which the health of an individual and the health of the public seem, increasingly, to be interdependent. [BV]
“I can’t recall another time when a painting dominated headline news so incessantly; when the public came together to express love and hate for an artwork so passionately; or certainly, when curation was a nationwide discussion.” — George Millership on
John William Waterhouse’s “Hylas and the Nymphs” [BV]
Observed | March 19
Graphic design for public health. [JH]
Observed | March 13
Seeing wonder in the small - looking at Ernst Haeckel found in his illustrations of microscopic life. [BV]
Observed | March 12
National Parks posters featuring quotes from one-star reviews. (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
Property of Opaqueness is a collaborative dance performance by artist and choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto and is part of
The Unknown Artist, an exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, curated by Lucy Cotter. [BV]
Observed | March 10
Photographer Larry Racioppo spent the ’90s capturing
NYC’s makeshift streetball courts: ’the closer I looked, the more interesting they became. Many are really a form of folk art.’ [BV]
Observed | March 06
Friday afternoon eye candy (literally): Jonny Trunk’s book,
Wrappers Delight, provides a window into classic sweet package design. [BV]
Observed | March 05
Process Music is the second Kenneth FitzGerald album (of writing) and so worthy of your support! [BV]
Erica Walker studies urban noise at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and her goal is to raise awareness about how constant sound is affecting people’s lives and health. (Spoiler: there’s a lot of noise and it’s not good.) [BV]
Observed | March 04
Do we need a completely
new approach to marketing books? Part one of a thought-provoking series from Designers and Books. [BV]
“
Design fiction is a mix of science fact, design, and science fiction...it recombines the traditions of writing and storytelling with the material crafting of objects.” (via Blake Eskin) [BV]
Observed | March 03
Museums and the Duomo cathedral in Milan reopened Monday, but visitors are asked to stand three feet apart. [BV]
Beyond the Visible: Space, Place, and Power in Mental Health is a symposium later this month at Yale School of Architecture that seeks to make designers and architects aware of their capacity to improve access to and perceptions of mental health. [BV]
Observed | February 26
The current NYC subway map is one of the most consulted in human history. In 1979
Michael Hertz, helped design it. He died last week at 87. [BV]
Why are music-streaming interfaces becoming
visually indistinguishable? (via
James I. Bowie) [BV]
Observed | February 21
Katie Holten has created a
New York City Tree Alphabet. Each letter of the Latin alphabet is assigned a drawing of a tree from the NYC Parks Department’s existing native and non-native trees, as well as species that are to be planted as a result of the changing climate. For example, A = Ash. [BV]
