Book club for design nerds

What do designers do after they read a book? Do they discuss about it as regular bibliophiles? Do they write fun fiction as regular nerds? Nope, they each create a book cover and post it on the book cover club, for your enjoyment:

via Lost at E minor 

See also:

• Food for inspiration
• The first ever designed album cover
• People are open books: the Human Library project

Strictly for philotypes

All these -isms that gave meaning to complex philosophical concepts and formed our common  understanding: relativism, absolutism, hedonism, humanism, passivism, realism, authoritarianism, solipsism, reductionism, determinism, deism and so many others, but we never quite managed to remember them all.

Designer Genis Carreras helps us understand and visualise all these philosophical ideologies through his series of  minimalistic posters, entitled Philographics, with just the use of simple geometric shapes.

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In 60 seconds

Every 60 seconds, 168 million emails are sent, more than 13,000 iPhone applications are downloaded, over 600,000 search queries are made,  more than 98,000 tweets and more than 1,500 blog posts are published.Pretty amazing, don’t you think?

via TechPages

See also:

• The universe of social networks
• The internet in 2015
• I am socially stoned
• It started with the occasional profile update and now you are hooked: social media addiction

Song of the week

The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie by Red Hot Chili Peppers from their album ‘I’m With You’, out today.

The fragments of a face

A basic rule: first destroy, then create. That’s what Lucas Simões at least did in his series of portraits “Desretratos” by reconstructing already deconstructed faces. He cut out photographs of people  in different shapes and re-arrange them back together in different places.

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Nuit blanche

Just awesome!

The encounter of two strangers in a hyper real fantasy.

Directed by: Arev Manoukian. Watch the “Making of” here.

See also:

• The Man in the Black Coat
• Things deteriorate
• Beauty in motion

Animated music

Musical notes have a life of their own and Dan Cohen managed to reveal it in his Animated Sheet Music, a series of beautiful animations of Miles Davis’, Charlie Parker’s and John Coltrane’s jazz songs.

via Laughing Squid

See also:

• Can you hear color?
• Painting with notes
• Visualising sound

Strings of words

Art for transit enthusiasts? Yes, it exists, like these minimalistic maps made up of strings of words that spell the station names. TRNSPRTNATION is a series of typographic transit maps created by Fadeout Design, which include transit systems of Boston, London, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC and Chicago.

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Minimal landmarks

How can we disguise some of the city’s most famous buildings and still recognise them?  Through an minimalistic approach, graphic studio Design By House managed to reveal famous landmarks under multiple layers of colors and different shapes.

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Your best bits

When life flashes before your eyes, which images would you choose to remember? Steve Cutts follows one man’s last moments, as he accidentally falls off a tall city building, in his hand-drawn animated short film In The Fall.

via Laughing Squid

See also:

• The quest of an artist
• The Man in the Black Coat

Food for inspiration

Walt Whitman used to have oysters and meat for breakfast, Emily Dickinson preferred her own home-baked bread, whereas Marcel Proust used to drink espresso to write his “In Search of Lost Time “, and not madeleine as we would have guessed.  Even great writers and poets want some little treats for inspiration.

lllustration by Wendy MacNaughton.

via New York Times

See also:

• I shall not live in vain
• In literature / hidden haikus I have found / unexpectedly
• In their own words

Filming your steps around the globe

Walking around the globe and filming your steps. Rick Mereki, Tim White and Andrew Lees visited 11 countries, traveled 38 thousand miles in 44 days, and created 3 amazing short films: Move, Eat, Learn.

See also:

• With a back pack and a camera
• Take a snapshot of your face everyday
• Just symmetry

A high-speed rail with a view

New Transit Yurikamome (新交通ゆりかもめ, formally the Tokyo Waterfront New Transit Waterfront Line, 東京臨海新交通臨海線): the first Tokyo transit line to be completely automated, which runs solely on computers and connects Odaiba to the mainland, passing through the Rainbow Bridge.

Photographer Appura Pai captured this journey with his long-exposure shots in the new high-speed rail.

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Song of the week

The Quiet Earth by Trophy Wife