a nice collection of vintage, colour maps of manhattan drawn in ‘bird’s eye’ view, in an age where this was impossible… (via ‘luis mendo’ and ‘sanne wijbenga’)
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punk’s not dead
i just spotted this anarchic theater poster in amsterdam, from design duo ‘kok pistolet’
planet earth is blue
sweet idea: illustrator andrew kolb has turned bowies’ classic 1969 hit ‘space oddity’ into an illustrated childrens book, as yet unpublished and not cleared for rights (all of the texts have been pixellated on his own website) the whole set can however be seen, as featured, on the wired site…
mind over matter
interesting looking device form the tablet makers ‘wacom’: an analogue pen that translates your drawing from paper directly to editable pixels or vector paths… called the ‘inkling’, there now follows a commercial break, after the click (via ‘nalden’)
gray day
one of the first in a series of new book covers for classic ‘roald dahl’ novels, reissued by penguin (this week) and designed by the talented ‘jon gray’ a.k.a. ‘gray318’ (via ‘design week’)