Fruit Crate Art
Daylight Brand, 2011 via escapeintolife.com Daylight Brand, Dennis Ziemienski | Escape Into Life
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Archive for: June 2012
On Design: Eliel Saarinen
‘Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in the room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city.’
Car Dashboards as Works of Art
Original “dashboards” were simply wooden barriers to protect the horse carriage driver from splashes (or “dashes”) of dirt thrown up by the horse’s hooves. Much has changed since… Modern dashboards are significantly more than just arrangements o…
24 Hours of Le Mans – This Weekend, The Classic Returns
The 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 24 Heures du Mans) is the world’s oldest active sports car race in endurance racing, held annually since 1923 near the town of Le Mans, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency, race tea…
150 years after the last fusillade, scholars look at Civil War anew during anniversary
Grave stones for soldiers killed in action or after the Civil War are seen at Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, N.Y. Nearly 150 years after the last fusillade of the Civil War, historians, authors and museum curators are still finding new topics t…
‘How Television Benefits Your Children’ Ad, 1950
via retronaut.co
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Thanks to innovations in building materials, design technologies, and construction tools, a new generation of architects can finally realize structures that would have previously remained mere dreams. This emergence of a new vernacular of radicall…
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