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Polar chart generator
Let our lives be changed forever! The interactive chart builder that we’ve been dreaming of for so long has finally been created by the genius of Matt Bentley (and it also exports results into svg’s!)....
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Here’s the praise to Calibri
Calibri has been behaving badly, tell us presentation specialists at Slidebean: ‘Calibri is one of the ugliest fonts ever invented by mankind, I hold it up there with other design fails such the...
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1968 Mexico Olympic Games pictocharts
Pictocharts for 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, by Lance Wyman (US) Image source: http://www.tapook.com/2012/07/olympic-pictograms/
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The Noun project – a website about icons
A great website with lots of superb iconography – an extermely useful instrument when working on own icons – and for buying icons from designers, too, of course:
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Analysis drawings from the Slade drawing course, Autumn 2012
Artwork courtesy Ian Rowlands
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Which colours are Karel Martens’ boxes?
Alice blue alizarin crimson amber amethyst aqua acquarnarine asparagus azure beige bistre black blue Bondi blue brass bright green bright turquoise bright violet bronze brown buff burgundy burnt...
View ArticleSpace as material
In phenomenology, the environment is concretely defined as “the place”, and the things which occur there “take place”. The place is not so simple as the locality, but consists of concrete things which...
View ArticleVignelli canon: use of fonts
In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few...
View ArticleDrawing based on field recordings
Gather field sound material and then use it as a basis for drawings. Pick some different types of fields, as: - Repetitive background noise, like a train passing by - Sporadic clustered noise, such as...
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Klee on Modern Art and drawings by Henri Michaux
55. Paul Klee, On Modern Art, p. 53: “The legend of the childishness of my drawing must have originated from those linear compositions of mine in which I tried to combine a concrete image, say that of...
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55. Paul Klee, On Modern Art, p. 53: “The legend of the childishness of my drawing must have originated from those linear compositions of mine in which I tried to combine a concrete image, say that of...
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Great internet discovery: Monoskop
A great Friday morning is glorified by a great internet discovery called Monoskop – a collaborative wiki research on the history of art, culture and media technology.
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Thomas Malton, A Complete Treatise on Perspective in Theory and in Practice,...
‘When we look at a road which sweeps before us toward the horizon, we must not say either that the sides of the road are given to us as convergent or that they are given to us as parallel; they are...
View ArticleLeonardo – accidental images
‘If you look upon an old wall covered with dirt, or the odd appearance of some streaked stones, you may discover several things like landscapes, battles, clouds, uncommon attitudes, humorous faces,...
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Writing on drawing
It is fine to say, as many do, that drawing is good for you, but so is singing, and so is the Eurovision Song Contest. The high octane drawing of the twentieth century greats – Matisse, Picasso,...
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Jerwood Drawing Prize, September 2014
Jerwood Drawing Prize is “the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK” (Source: http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-drawing-prize-2014) First prize this year went to...
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Dubuffet drawing
Source: http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/155/w500h420/CRI_210155.jpg
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