2012-09-11
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Top: London Underground Circuit Map Radio by Yuri Suzuki, 2012 (more here, here).
Bottom: The Underground ‘straight eight’ all-electric skit-set circuit diagram by Harry Beck, March 1933.
2012-09-03
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Oskar Schlemmer, diagram for “Gesture Dance,” 1926 (via, via, via):
His work for the Bauhaus and his preoccupation with the theatre are an important factor in his work, which deals mainly with the problematic of the figure in space. People, typically a stylised female figure, continued to be the predominant subject in his painting. Influenced by Cubism, he usually integrated this figures into geometric structures.
2012-06-08
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BBC Television Centre floor plan, as sold on this t-shirt by Red Bubble. Lovely.
2012-05-27
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Space Suit by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr (with contrast modified).
2012-05-17
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Two photos from the amazing, huge pickmix.co.uk site, collecting photographs from the London Transport Museum’s archive. On the left, in a 1977 colour print by Paul Proctor:
The experimental press-button Passenger Route Indicator machine installed in the ticket hall at Heathrow Central (now Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3) Underground station. The indicator incorporated a TV screen designed to display a diagrammatic route map of the chosen journey.
And to the right, a 1974 photograph by H J Hare & Son:
A passenger consults a route indicator machine at Oxford Circus Underground station. Oxford Circus services Central, Victoria and Bakerloo lines.
You can see more of my favourite images from the site. See also: a similar map in Paris.
2012-05-04
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Technical improvements on CMA CGM’s Christophe Colomb, a 365m long ship with over 13,000 TEU of capacity.
2012-04-21
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Surface temperature at various points on the A-12 (the predecessor to the SR-71), from the CIA’s Breaking Through Technological Barriers page, part of their A-12 monograph.
(It’s a shame it’s in Fahrenheit not Celsius or kelvin, but ah well.)
2012-04-18
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Richard Rogers Screenprints by Simon Armstrong for the Design Museum.
2012-04-15
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A diagram of the F-111 wing sweep mechanism, from a General Dynamics booklet (via).
