roomthily

quiteaspectacle:

owen gatley’s autumn/winter catalogue cover for pan macmillan.

The Three Astronauts, Umberto Eco and ill. Eugenio Carmi - part of a semiotics primer trilogy

via Brain Pickings

Portland (from the text and covers of Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Lathe of Heaven and DVD covers from Dante’s Peak and Volcano

by Matthew Picton

Peter Mendelsund

In other words, cleverness does not indicate intelligence. The relationship between these two attributes is something that’s become a point of contention when I look at certain things I’ve made in the past.

(via viafrank)

robertogreco:

Hand Made Tokyo, by a-small-lab

For more information and photos see the book project page and the Flickr set of the same name.

Pick one spot in the city and begin to think of it as yours. It doesn’t matter where, and it doesn’t matter what. (P. Auster, 2003)

mythologyofblue:

Dan Collier, Typographic Links, 2007

A hand-sewn, three-dimensional hyperlink structure that guides the reader through the pages of a book (above); detail (right)

From Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

(princetonarchitecturalpress)

Geologic City (Smudge Studio)

In 2010, we set out to create a field guide for New York City residents and visitors who want to sense for themselves the forces of deep time that course through the City and give it form, dynamism and material reality. We began to identify geologic materials that make up iconic pieces of New York architecture and infrastructure, trace them to their origins, and place them on the geologic time scale. But we soon realized that the materials and forces we were encountering were not things. They were lively actors.

via BLDGBLOG

junkculture:

MELANIE MCLAIN

READING PATTERN

Melanie Mclain’s Reading Pattern is an on-going project where she keeps track of pages of novels and fiction that she reads daily. All the data is visualized by cutting squares out of the pages accordingly

via defacedbook

your house (olafur eliasson) - artist book with a negative impression of his house in copenhagen (454 laser-cut pages)

via . of paper and things .

shriyashriyashriya:

The Exposed City:  Mapping the Urban Invisibles By Nadia Amoroso 

“There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped?

Nadia Amoroso tackles these questions by taking statistical urban data and exploring how they could be transformed into innovative new maps. The “unseen” elements of the city are examined in groundbreaking images throughout the book, which are complemented by interviews with Winy Maas and James Corner, comments by Richard Saul Wurman, and sections by the SENSEable City Lab group and Mark Aubin, co-founder of Google Earth.” via humanscalecities

(Source: humanscalecities)