graphic designer sara cwynar combines her day job (at the ‘new york times magazine’) with a second, separate career as a designer/artist making rather more autonomous and eclectic work… see also the article about her on it’s nice that
me news
infogymnastics
it’s possibly one of the healthiest ways to practice graphic design and apparently even an aspiring olympic sport… one of the latest figures is the statue of liberty and much like any other trend figure running even has its own ‘app’
computer vision
…while the visitor keeps their eyes shut, a moving platform guides a pen in their hand to draw a self-portrait, using computer vision to track their face and generate a line drawing. The result is a machine-aided drawing, a self-portrait you could never draw… (via uwe)
l’esprit de l’escalier
…(french): usually translated as “staircase wit,” is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it…
…approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language, in fact it’s the 3rd most commonly spoken language in the world (after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish). Interestingly enough it’s the number 1 second language used worldwide – which is why the total number of people who speak English, outnumber those of any other… …whilst it’s the most widely spoken language, there’s still a few areas it falls down on… …25 words that simply don’t exist in the english langauge…
well, i thought it was interesting anyhow…
(tip via trainee ornithologist and part-time, scale-model-train enthusiast: mister ‘jean denis’)
