My interest in charts springs primarily from my disinterest in charts. Reality is so messy. Nothing that passes for a fact ever really is one. When I was a kid, infographics were intoxicating because they promised a world of order, and it’s specif…
Vivian Maier/John Maloof Collection Four years ago, a Chicago real estate agent stumbled upon a box of negatives. Little did he know that he’d discovered Vivian Maier. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE measure of Vivian Maier’s photos without taking stock o…
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. via en.wikipedia.org
If you have ever experienced problems viewing the time on your analog watch, squinting your eyes to see the time. The Zoomin Watch concept could definitely help you out. The concept is simple yet very very innovative and uses small magnifiers simi…
Dutch photographer Gerco de Ruijter recently got in touch with an extraordinary series of aerial photographs called Baumschule—some of which, he explains, were taken using a camera mounted on a fishing rod. The series features “32 photographs of t…
Stephen R. Coveyvia thinkexist.com
via die-neue-sammlung.de The striking manner in which the Neue Sammlung’s motto “Design ist Kunst, die sich nützlich macht” (design is art that makes itself useful) is illustrated in printed form is characteristic of the work of the Mendell & Ober…
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams via designwashere.com
