Tag Archives: design
world of anarchie
Susan Archie is the design genius behind nearly all the best box sets that have been released in the last ten years or so. Seriously: all the various Revenant boxes, the Albert Ayler box, the Charley Patton box, the Beefheart … more…
Mad furniture
(This one is ages old, but it’s posted after all this time because the template is having its piccy taken, and this fits the part absolutely.) A range of numbered, limited edition, mad cabinets by John Suttman. The descriptions seem … more…
Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens
Patrick Blanc‘s wall gardens are relatively lightweight (in a good way): they are constructed of metal frames supporting PVC and felt layers, watered and fed automatically from the top, and planted with whatever is appropriate to the location, and artificially … more…
links for 2006-12-11: Art of the Shiv
Design Observer: The Art of the Shiv inadvertent aesthetics of DIY weaponry (tags: weapons design prison)
links for 2006-12-05: Grammar of Ornament, Quaternions, Bearden, Bayes, Pollock, Tesla
Owen Jones and the Grammar of Ornament The images are from the 1868 edition of the Grammar of Ornament, by Owen Jones (tags: design ornament library) Quaternion – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia first major speed bump encountered in Against the … more…
The Guild of Book Workers’ 100th Anniversary Exhibition
Timothy Ely, Coil, 2005 Drum leaf binding with black leather spine; pastepaper endleaves; text in ink on paper. This unique manuscript was drawn between New York City, Colorado Springs, and Colfax, and tracks the labs, events, and cycles of Nikola … more…
Palaeography, a wasted opportunity
You would think that putting together a site about palaeography — the study of ancient writing — would be an opportunity to turn out something truly gorgeous, and in that you would be right. So, considering the huge potential in … more…
Bill Stumpf, co-creator of the Aeron chair, R.I.P.
Herman Miller – for Business – Recent Herman Miller News Bill Stumpf, one of Herman Miller’s most gifted design partners and a pioneering figure in ergonomic seating, died Wednesday, August 30, 2006, of complications stemming from abdominal surgery. He was … more…
soviet gloss, design et typo
Another link from Plep again, already: this poster, from a collection of Soviet design from the 1920s, is of approximately the same vintage as the Chicago “L” poster from a couple of nights ago, and uses similar subject matter and … more…
BibliOdyssey
I followed a link from somewhere onto BibliOdyssey a few weeks ago: I don’t recall what I saw there, the first time, but it went in the bookmarks straight off. It’s a blog dedicated to collecting atmospheric imagery from one … more…