2010-11-03
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A Billboard That Advertises Nothing But Clean Air, as covered at co.design:
Non-Sign II is the brainchild of the Seattle art and architecture firm Lead Pencil Studio. Even crazier: It was commissioned by the federal government, which usually regards high art the way one would a dead rat.
Lead Pencil Studio’s Daniel Mihalyo sheds light on the concept:
Borrowing the effectiveness of billboards to redirect attention away from the landscape… this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing more than a clear view of the changing atmospheric conditions beyond.
2010-09-07
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An advert for the Olympus Trip 35 (Wikipedia, Camerapedia, Ken Rockwell). I recently bought one of these at the flea market in Mauerpark (probably paying slightly over the odds) and having run a film through it, it’s working pretty well. Uploads to Flickr soon.
(Source: youtube.com)
2010-06-06
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Find a Safe Place to Cross, by an anonymous designer. From the Observer’s gallery: How vintage posters highlighted a modern new Britain.
2010-04-09
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ICI Friday: ICI Fibres - 1970s Clothes Commercial (posted by OurManInHavana, via Robert Popper, via Chris)
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Fiday is ICI Day! First up: “Engineering Plastics (01)”, posted by Bollops.
2010-03-31
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Wired Reread: We need highscreen, not widescreen
My uncle worked for Portrait; he had one of these monitors too. Being a CRT, it was a bit unwieldy, but worked rather well.
Portrait are still a going concern, as a software business.
twitter.com/@mattb:
trying my external monitor in vertical portrait orientation for a bit, inspired by recent info-panel blog posts and perhaps ipads. •
it seems that vertical monitors have a posse. •
