here is a daunting infographic which maps the dazzling number of clandestine and public entities involved in the security of the united states of secret america, in order of least, to most activity… wow
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2012
the british post office have released a series of stamps featuring a whole series of illustrators and artists (julian opie, george hardie to name two) in the run up to the london olympics, with two more stamp sets due in the following year.. the design is in the hands of studio david hillman
somehow i feel that they could have been a bit more ‘wild’ than this with so many talented people involved, the overall impression is rather ‘traditional’ for me… although the basketball one is quite funky…
hippy shit
berlin-based duo a nice idea every day are primarily filmmakers but their photography sketch work is what really caught my attention (via ‘monodot’)
he photographed each of them… and then he ate them
unusual idea for a book on a narrow theme, or is it rather data visualisation in book form?
…all of the apples in this little hardcover book were printed at actual size. Every apple is a different variety (47 kinds total) and are labeled as such. On the left of every spread is the apple whole, on the right page, it’s the apple sliced in half. The author of this book, Jonathan Gerken, gathered all of these apples during the fall of a single year from local farmer’s markets, orchards and neighbors…
