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biggest drawing in the world
Posted May 27th, 2008 at 2:01 pm. There are 0 comments.
[UPDATE: It’s a hoax. ]Artist Erik Nordenankar placed a customized GPS into a travel case and gave it to the nice folks at the shipping company DHL along with some instructions. Upon its return 55 days later the GPS tracklog produced the above drawing. There is a video and of course some prior art at gpsdrawing.com.
brand tags
Posted May 9th, 2008 at 4:41 pm. There are 0 comments.
Noah Briar has launched a nice project using tags to define brands, where users enter the first word or phrase that comes to mind that they associate with that brand. Once this grows further I can see it as a barometer for a brand’s identity and with some tweaks, such as selectable time frames, a great way to track peoples changing perceptions on a brands identity. The clean simple design is dominated by the perfect-for-this-application tag cloud that brings the most popular terms associated wit hte brand to the fore. Obviously Nike has got the swoosh associated with them in our collective mind.
Tag some brands over at brandtags.net
plain
Posted May 9th, 2008 at 2:16 pm. There are 0 comments.
The Big Word Project featured plain as the word of the day, which I recently bought for seanaes.com. The Big Word Project seeks to redefine words by allowing users to purchase words, 1$ per letter, and link them to a url – simple. In addition to being a very interesting idea they had some very nice things to say about my work.
As we are all about the simplistic design here at The Big Word Project, Seanaes.com is a shining testament to simple design. His navigation system on his homepage is really unique and his lack of unneccesary clutter allows his impressive work to speak for itself. It is quite appropriate that his site is the new definition of the word ‘Plain‘. Have a look through his projects and be inspired
All Streets
Posted April 30th, 2008 at 8:46 pm. There are 0 comments.
All Streets by Ben Fry shows the landscape that emerges from the act of drawing only the streets in the lower United States. The data is sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Tiger data set and created the 26 million road segments that comprise the full image. Stunning.
spider web repair
Posted April 29th, 2008 at 12:22 pm. There are 0 comments.
Artist Nina Katchedourian embarked on a project, as part of her series on uninvited collaborations with nature, where she mended spiderwebs that appeared damaged or incomplete. Using thread and although she worked carefully the repairs did cause extra damage. The spider’s reaction to the unsolicited repairs was great.
The morning after the first patch job, I discovered a pile of red threads lying on the ground below the web. At first I assumed the wind had blown them out; on closer inspection it became clear that the spider had repaired the web to perfect condition using its own methods, throwing the threads out in the process. My repairs were always rejected by the spider and discarded, usually during the course of the night, even in webs which looked abandoned.
The Big Word Project
Posted April 19th, 2008 at 1:39 pm. There are 0 comments.
The Big Word Project is redefining words. Search for your word and link it to your website. Your website is then the new definition.
All words in the English dictionary are available. Words cost $1 per letter.
Before today inclement was defined as an adjective meaning“Stormy “. The new definition for inclement is now iamtheweather.com
Royal Mint, new coins
Posted April 2nd, 2008 at 11:49 am. There are 0 comments.
The newly designed coins are the work of Matthew Dent, a 26 year old designer whose entry in the national contest stood above the other 4000 entries. What I feel is the best part of his design is the unifying use of the Royal Coat of Arms across the range of coins and the appearance of the complete shield on the new 1£ coin.
I thought the six coins could make up a shield by arranging the coins both horizontally, as with the landscape idea, as well as vertically, in a sort of jigsaw style. I liked the idea and symbolism of using the Royal Arms, where individually the coins could focus on specific elements and when placed together they reveal the complete Royal Arms.
via We Made This
urban zebra
Posted March 16th, 2008 at 10:53 pm. There are 0 comments.
grazing on a rusty iron tree
i love you
Posted February 14th, 2008 at 12:52 pm. There are 0 comments.
there are so many different ways to say it. or to not say it. you know who you are and that i love you. very much.
World Clock Project
Posted January 30th, 2008 at 2:17 pm. There are 0 comments.
The World Clock Project is collecting images of public clock faces showing each minute of the day. My submission is 9:33, shown above first in on the second row.
Because it’s great fun to look at pictures of clocks from around the world. And aside from telling us the time, these pictures of unfamiliar clocks take us to a different place and remind us of the vastness of the world.
Upon collecting all minutes of the day they intend to create a “digital picture clock”. Upload a picture of some missing time to help out.
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