notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

Sam Griffin, on his artwork The Olduvai Cliff:

“This crypt finds its visual focal point in a neon outline of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Projection - the flattened version of the polyhedral shape created by the mathematician to display a map of the world. Here it is re-purposed as a religious symbol, geometric shorthand for Fuller’s holistic acknowledgement of the finite nature of natural resources.”

(via iamdanw, Dymaxion map poster extraordinaire). (See also: a Dymaxion map of human migration from east Africa.)

A screenshot of part of the Scale Adaptive Projection widget, which lets you zoom and manipulate a map of the earth so you can see how different projections (and their use at different scales and latitudes) distort views of the world. (via, via)

The 1975-2005 BBC weather cloud symbol. Remind you of anything?

More: On the history of the icons, including the tidbit that their designer was a student at the time. A BBC news story about their demise. A page about the symbols and their replacements.