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”And of all the stars
in all of the nighttime skies
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Lucy Knisley has drawn a parody comic of the entire Harry Potter saga, and you can order them all as posters over on her site. Really impressive stuff.
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Typographic city logos, by Albin Holmqvist:
I was commissioned by EF International Language Centers to create typographic logotypes for their 40 destinations, worldwide.
Really great stuff. Particularly like the Chicago, Oxford, Cape Town, Toronto, and Shanghai pieces.
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30 Years of the Space Shuttle: a fantastic infographic by the New York Times looking back at space exploration.
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”I’ve always found that home is where your loved ones are; it’s where the things that make you exited to wake up in the morning reside.
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The USPS has come out with a new set of stamps commemorating industrial designers. From the press release:
Industrial design emerged as a profession in the United Sates in the 1920s, but really took off during the Great Depression. Faced with decreasing sales, manufacturers turned to industrial designers to give their products a modern look that would appeal to consumers. Characterized by horizontal lines and rounded shapes, the new, streamlined looks differed completely from the decorative extravagance of the 1920s. The designs evoked a sense of speed and efficiency and projected the image of progress and affluence the public desired.
Consumer interest in modern design continued to increase after World War II, when machines allowed corporations to mass produce vacuums, hair dryers, toasters and other consumer goods at low cost. Industrial designers helped lower costs further by exploiting inexpensive new materials like plastic, vinyl, chrome, aluminum and plywood, which responded well to advances in manufacturing such as the use of molds and stamping. Affordable prices and growing prosperity nationwide helped drive popular demand.
Even as streamlining gave way to new looks in the 1960s, the groundbreaking work of industrial designers continued to transform the look of homes and offices across the country. Today, industrial design remains an integral component of American manufacturing and business, as well as daily life.
I particularly love the Eliot Noyes stamp. Hope to get my hands on the whole set, soon.
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”Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
Henry James (via)
(Source: misswallflower)
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Eating hot dogs on Coney Island.
Today, on American McCarver:
So Joey Chestnut has once again been crowned Repulsive Gorging Champion of the World, in a contest that fully 81% of ESPN viewers don’t even consider a sport. Let pass that there’s actually an organization called “Major League Eating.” Let pass the spectacle of men rhythmically stuffing their gullets with soaked hotdogs. Let pass, well, pretty much everything about the event. None of it matters in the face of a single, strident fact:
It’s terrible TV.
The whole reason that the contest exists — or, rather, than it’;s anything other than a half-column-inch curiosity in tomorrow’s paper — is to fill an hour of airtime. And it does a terrible job of it. The eating only lasts for ten minutes, and that’s nauseating to watch. There’s no balletic beauty, no elegant effort. There are just a bunch of guys — some in mohawks and in facepaint — stuffing themselves.
The whole idea of competitive eating is fascinatingly frightening to me. Frightening because the glamorization of conspicuously-wasteful gluttony sickens me both viscerally and conceptually. Fascinating because people spend lots of time and money training for this, while other people spend lots of money and time watching this — and I can’t understand either group, as hard as I try.
(Source: americanmccarver)
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”That is part of the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I like this. Perhaps I shall buy the poster and put it up on my wall.
