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British Design Classics
Posted November 30th, 2008 at 7:51 pm. There are 0 comments.Great Stamps from the Royal Mail. The British Design Classics collection come out in early 2009.
via British Design Classics « Thinking for a Living™
M45 – The Pleiades
Posted November 10th, 2008 at 11:01 am. There are 0 comments.
Above a picture of the sky and stars submitted to the astronomy.net group on flickr. Astrometry.net will analyze the photo and return the below interesting information about the sky you have photographed. Seriously amazing pattern matching.
astrometry.net says:
Hello, this is the blind astrometry solver. Your results are:
(RA, Dec) center:(56.7751, 24.1559) degrees(RA, Dec) center (H:M:S, D:M:S):(03:47:6.024, +24:09:21.240)
Orientation:95.02 deg E of NPixel scale:1.96 arcsec/pixel
Parity:Reverse (“Left-handed”)
Field size :2.12 x 1.41 degreesYour field contains:
The star Celaeno (16Tau)
The star Electra (17Tau)
The star 18Tau
The star Taygeta (19Tau)
The star Sterope I (21Tau)
The star Merope (23Tau)
The star ηTau
The star Atlas (27Tau)
The star Pleione (28Tau)
NGC 1432 / Maia nebula
NGC 1435 / Merope nebula—–
If you would like to have other images solved, please submit them to the astrometry group.
Astrometry.net describes their project like this:
If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an image and we’ll give you back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling inside the field of view.
The intersection of photography, data and crowdsourcing, with either the photography or the data or both will be an interesting space to watch.
danger danger
Posted November 4th, 2008 at 6:40 pm. There are 0 comments.
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers has an online pictorial database. I see it as an illustrated guide to 130 ways you can get hurt, killed or worse by evil machines.
This database was developed to assist designers and technical illustrators in communicating effective safety messages through the use of consistent “industry-recognized” pictorial representations. Development of the database is guided by industry professionals and will be expanded as more product and process-specific pictorials are identified.
Available as .eps or .dxf files. Or grab a large version of the index I created above.
big ideas are small
Posted April 4th, 2008 at 9:54 am. There are 0 comments.
d-barcode in Japan design barcodes for the items you see on the supermarket shelf. These are the little flourishes of design that take the banal and make it fresh and that keeps me smiling everyday.
Space Mirror
Posted December 7th, 2007 at 7:11 pm. There are 0 comments.
This is one of those projects that goes under the radar, relatively unknown to most. I had the fortune several years ago to see Wes Jones speak, and he presented several of his architectural projects, nearly all forgettable. The work was fine, maybe even great (I don’t remember) but paled in comparison to the Astronauts Memorial (completed 1989) for one simple reason, the concept behind the project, the daring to propose to the bureaucratic agency NASA what he did , and nearly pull it off 100%.
The Space Mirror is a huge plane of mirror polish black granite, meant to reflect the sky above. In the granite slabs are carved straight through the names of fallen astronauts, scattered across the plane of granite, grouped by the tragic events in which the lives were lost. Behind the plane of granite an array of silvered mirrors was meant to be placed to reflect the light of the sun through the cut out names effectively burning the names of lost astronauts into the retinas of the viewers. Yes. The idea was to burn afterimages of the names of deceased astronauts into visitors eyes. The sheer violence of this small bit seals the deal for me and this project. It is some thing I will never forget. The power, and the metaphor contained in that simple move makes this project .
This is in addition to the fact that the several hundred ton steel structure and granite slabs rotated and tilted to track the sun across the sky, to insure that users eyes were continuously exposed to the full strength of the suns rays. Sadly, the bureaucracy being what it was, as per Mr. Jones, the mirrors were replaced with white painted surfaces to reduce the intensity of the light. After an malfunction with the equipment controlling the rotation & tilt sun tracking, flood lights were installed to provide a sanitized continuous source of light through the crippled memorial.
ABC Button
Posted November 29th, 2007 at 10:42 am. There are 0 comments.
Button typography. Very bespoke. Similar to minimal type faces made from 5X7 grid or LCD calculator numerals, I had never seen, or thought possible for that matter, that all the letterforms would be possible. You can download the font as well.
via Michael Surtees’ very excellent DesignNotes
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