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Category: Artists & Art
In case you didn't see it, the latest xkcd is a visual shout-out to data visualization guru Edward Tufte's favorite map, this 1861 depiction of Napoleon's march on Moscow, by Charles Joseph Minard. Yay! Movie Narrative Charts Charles Minard's 1869...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:51 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Via Inventorspot: Hello Kitty goes anatomical, and we discover she even has bows on her guts. Yikes! But seriously - the second, faux-ivory Hello Kitty looks a little familiar. According to Inventorspot, you can choose from regular style or...
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Category: Biology
Okay, so this apron by Aksel Varichon is awesome. Very fun. But what's with the oven mitt? If the premise of the apron is that we're seeing internal anatomy partially revealed on the wearer's body, doesn't the matching mitt...
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Category: Blogosphere
Consumerist.com is concerned about these Singaporean Play-Doh ads: Ummm, well, hmmm. That's kind of creepy, isn't it? According to the Consumerist, These Play Doh ads from Singapore don't seem to be aimed at kids. Then again, the message "safe no...
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Category: Artists & Art
Okay, if you're anything like me, you don't have time to read the blogs you already follow. But I do recommend that everyone head over to SEED's Revolutionary Minds Think Tank, where Greg Smith is guiding a conversation on...
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Category: Artists & Art
"It will die, eventually, because no one will know how to do it." But for now, a few miles from here, Firefly Press' John Kristensen is keeping the tradition of letterpress alive, as seen in this beautiful video by Chuck...
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Category: Biology
Blue Barnhouse Letterpress is simply awesome. I was idly coveting these classy anatomical heart thank-you cards when I discovered they actually have a special card FOR COLONOSCOPIES: No, not even letterpress can make these brutal (and hopefully fictitious) colonoscopy...
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Category: Biology
Lovely minimalist poster design from Jordan Michael Gray's flickrstream. via NOTCOT....
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Category: Artists & Art
Artist Emmanuel Polanco does amazing collage work reminiscent of Eduardo Recife. I especially like this piece, but he has several more with more overt vintage-science content. See a gallery at Fubiz....
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Category: Artists & Art
Father Heart, 2006 Black Nickel on Rolled Steel; Glass Tank - 80cc with pedal Josh Hadar It's always puzzled me that bicycles don't take better advantage of the gleaming potential of curvacious, polished metal. Why are most bike frames...
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