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Posted by on Aug 18th, 2005 | 0 comments

Patent Room

Patent Room
It’s the art of industrial design – archived. These nice people have assembled an online museum of early design illustrations from 1920-1950 patent applications. Today’s patent drawings are quite different so these are worth a look. You can even browse by category if not by decade. Not only are the drawings, of course, done by hand using analog technologies but they are injected with character and...
Posted by on Aug 17th, 2005 | 1 comment

Bauhaus kids

What do you get when you cross a bad-assed Bauhaus Architect with a childs colouring book? Well you get a collection of original drawings from 1962 from the Marcel Breuer colouring book courtesy of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Hooray! Crayons for everyone! Sharing:
Posted by on Aug 9th, 2005 | 0 comments

The Scribbler Bot

The Scribbler Bot
Douglas McDonald has produced a quite charming project called the Scribbler Bot based on an online drawing engine called – appropriately enough – the Scribbler. His project not only converts digital data into an analog drawing, but it does so with a slight amount of liberty such that the resulting image has a personality beyond the original data. Otherwise simple images are produced by a seemingly...
Posted by on Aug 8th, 2005 | 0 comments

Responsible Business: To the death

Responsible Business: To the death
There are people who have fates so intrinsically tied to that of the stock market that as it soars they are wonderfully ecstatic but as it plummets they decay into empty husks which were once vibrant human beings. Now your plants can share the same fate thanks to Douglas Easterly and Matt Kenyon who have produced a project they call Spore 1.1. Cruel Botany or Socio-Economic Genius? You...
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