Tag Archives: USSR
links for 2007-10-13: Delirious Moscow
Delirious Moscow Owen Hatherley frames the history of the USSR as space opera, and is noticed with approval by William Gibson. Who wouldn’t be pleased? (tags: architecture History movies scifi USSR)
Posted in Cultural, _del.icio.us
Tagged architecture, Constructivism, history, Owen Hatherley, Stalker, Tatlin, USSR, William-Gibson
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Leon Theremin
I’ve been browsing the Wonderland of Knowledge again — the twelve-volume children’s encyclopedia, published 1934 which was the source of the Two Stags image that I believe is still the most-visited post in this blog’s existence, and also of the … more…
Posted in music, Science and Technology, spooks
Tagged Albert-Einstein, Leon-Theremin, music, Science-and-Technology, spooks, USSR, Wonderland-of-Knowledge
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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…
Posted in design
Tagged design, France, Giovanni-Pintori, graphic-design, infrastructure, Striking-Miners-Choir, Test-Dept, trains, transport, typography, USSR
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