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"Just the day before, President Barack Obama had signed on and begun sending out photos. This seemed..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +0000

“Just the day before, President Barack Obama had signed on and begun sending out photos. This seemed like a real sign that Instagram had arrived. Obama already has accounts on Flickr and Facebook. He (or his people) must have seen something unique and wonderful in Instagram’s audience, some way to reach people via that channel that it couldn’t through others.”

- From Gizmodo’s piece Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane.

It might be splitting hairs, but I think the Flickr account is for the White House, and is therefore in Obama’s role as President, while the Instagram account is more of a campaign piece, in his role as candidate for re-election. Still, that paragraph makes its point.

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Plaza de George Orwell, Barcelona, by karramarro. George...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:48:06 +0000

Plaza de George Orwell, Barcelona, by karramarro. George Orwell’s home, near Wingate by Mark Birch.

The Chromatic London Underground Map by fdansv on Flickr: The...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:12:06 +0000

The Chromatic London Underground Map by fdansv on Flickr:

The purpose of this map is chiefly aesthethic, as well as an attempt of providing an alternative visualization of our beloved network.

Buy your A2 numbered copy for £14.99 here or see the original post in my blog here.

berkeley nuclear power station by smallritual on...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:40:59 +0000

berkeley nuclear power station by smallritual on Flickr.

Apparently, “only the sealed reactor core [is] left now”.

Soap Bubbles, New York, 1945, by Berenice Abbott.

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:55:06 +0000

Soap Bubbles, New York, 1945, by Berenice Abbott.

iamdanw: Great Britain. Her natural and industrial resources...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:45:58 +0000

iamdanw:

Great Britain. Her natural and industrial resources (by Boston Public Library)

[this is good]

HST approach by smallritual on Flickr. What more to say?

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:30:05 +0000

HST approach by smallritual on Flickr.

What more to say?

british rail design cover by smallritual on Flickr: The [Danish]...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:25:05 +0000

british rail design cover by smallritual on Flickr:

The [Danish] design of this book looks like 2006, in British terms, rather than 1986. the 1980s were not a good period for swiss-style modernism in Britain. The book celebrates the British Rail corporate identity at a time when it seemed outdated in Britain - a case of ‘you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone’. The British have never been very good at sticking to rational design systems - they get distracted by romanticism and nostalgia.

(Edited for capitalisation.)

station timetable by smallritual on Flickr. Steve Collins (who...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:25:05 +0000

station timetable by smallritual on Flickr.

Steve Collins (who goes by smallritual online) has been posting scans of the nearly impossible to find Danish Design Council book on British Rail’s design and identity. As he writes of the pocket timetables, “In a sense, the invisibility of this kind of design is the point.” Certainly I look at that now as almost a work of art, whereas for most of my life it was just background.

HST power cab section by smallritual on Flickr. Another from...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:25:00 +0000

HST power cab section by smallritual on Flickr.

Another from Steve Collins, one of a few cross-sections and elevations he’s posted. I have a particular fondness for the InterCity 125 cab shape. It feels like future.