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Friday also needs some
Lebbeus Woods

// The scar is a deeper level of reconstruction that fuses the new and the old, reconciling, coalescing them, without compromising either one in the name of some contextual form of unity. The scar is a mark of pride and of honor, both for what has been lost and what has been gained. It cannot

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Parts & Whole

Seems like collage is showing up frequently this fall—here are a few sightings. From The Avant Garde Diaries the video below on Mark Wagner. From Design Observer an interview by Rick Poynor with David Banash on his new book: Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption. From Eye Magazine and its current issue, Rick Poynor

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more on
integrated means
both/and/all

Read more about this project at Hornet Inc and Motionographer. The use and range of analog and digital means here is wonderful! A fine lesson when some may say drop this skill or this tool or that medium—this old or new way of thinking or that. More please.

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BLDG BLOG, more—

If you have not already found BLDG BLOG, check it out. It is a very fine design blog on architecture, urban planning, and details worthy of a close look.  A few of you in GD4090 will find this of interest among many of the other articles on BLDG BLOG. The author, Geoff Manaugh, is now focusing on expanding Gizmodo’s

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Flight thru Instruments

A few years ago this wonderful book issued by the US Navy (1945) and designed by Harley Earl showed up on several information design blogs. It was difficult to find for a while and its price increased considerably. Not so anymore—I just found a nice, reasonable copy.

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— Andrei Codrescu, The Posthuman Guide to Dada

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An excerpt from Beautiful Losers

For those who are unfamiliar with the documentary Beautiful Losers, it used to be on Netflix instant and it’s a real tragedy that it isn’t anymore. If you haven’t seen it, go see it. It’s an incredible movie and has a killer book that goes with it as well. And, as sometimes it is easy

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Design Manifestos

A partial history of designers sorting out their values and putting ink/press to paper. El Lissitzky on typography from 1923 and some thoughts on his future-cast at Eye Magazine: The words on the printed surface are taken in by seeing, not by hearing. One communicates meanings through the convention of words; meaning attains form through

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Not entirely relevant to class,
but very clever adverts

These are from an ad campaign by Singapore-based suicide prevention organization Samaritans of Singapore. The tagline “The signs are there if you read them” next to the logo is formatted upside-down so that readers know to flip the ad. Thoughts? Feels? Non sequitur comments?

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Learning Coding Basic with Scratch

scratch.mit.edu MIT create scratch to teach young children about programming and interactive design. I played around with it and I thought it was fun and that it would be a helpful way for those interested in code to learn some basic concepts that are use in pretty much all programming languages. It’s free and sort

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Learn Code

It has been a while since I visited Codecademy’s site—maybe a year or so. I followed them for a while when they first started up. The W3Schools tutorials are useful for the novice coder, but these folks have some super nice features. Go check it out. Whew—I thought I was missing something and I was: the rest of

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More Water Maps
(these are close to home)

Over the last few days I’ve posted several information and educational design references. Of those, two had focus on water—where it flows and how much there is. Hope you have put the study on them and found good reason. Now here is a third submitted by Hannah with a view of Georgia. Take a look

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On Simultaneity

The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed. — William Gibson

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Are we taking a break from
striving for perfection?

Over the past few years we’ve seen a reemergence of vinyl records and a growing popularity of filters on Instagram. Members of other generations (i.e. my father) have reacted to this trend with a large amount of eye rolling. We’ve made all this progress in the hopes of getting a perfect and clear sound and

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Name Map, plus

Information design map: Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls, State-by-State If you view this link in an older browser, you may be entertained by some glitch art. For DIY glitch experiments: JPG Glitch

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