Paperforest points us to this excellent article about pop-up book design in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) newsletter. The article, by artist and paper engineer Ray Marshall and artist Wilson Swain, is about their book, The Castaway Pirates – I’ve seen this book, it’s complicated and awesome. The article starts on […]
Remember the eraser collection? Well, Bob Truby has a wonderfully organized site for his pencil collection. They’re beautiful. via Meggiecat
RCA: The Future of Money @ Core77 via Beyond the Beyond. Students in the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art were challenged to explore the future of money when it disappears as a physical currency… Cash is dissapearing more and more and we are moving towards a cashless society where hard cash […]
The Cityscape project – (also called “How to blow 5 months of your life” by the maker)… Approximately 7 feet past the window is a large single plane of wood with windows cut into it. The 7 x 11 foot plane of wood is actually two layers of wood with a ~1″ air gap where […]
CPU vs GPU – paintball version (also known as the 80 nansecond Mona Lisa) via Buzzfeed.
This art project, entitled “Tantalum Memorial – Residue”, by England-based Graham Harwood, Richard Wright, and Matsuko Yokokoji, is a telephony-based memorial to the people who have died as a result of the tantalum wars in the Congo.The installation is built from the remnants of an old electro-mechanical 1938 Strowger telephone exchange found in an old […]
Some striking work from Banksy in New Orleans.
