Last quiz of the year

Last quiz of the year: Back to the eighties to test our knowledge and memory. Designer Stephen Wildish created the 1980′s Film Alphabet,  a great graphic that challenges our pop culture movie knowledge from the eighties.

Each letter and a movie. Can you recognise them?

See also:

• Clockbusters: the movie quiz
• See the object, guess the movie
• Typo posters
• Minimal design, maximal inspiration

2011: a LEGO year

This year was definitely a LEGO year, or, perhaps, every year can be LEGO year, since everything can be constructed or recreated with LEGOs.

E.M. Escher’s paradox:

Classic photographs:

Music record covers:

Oscar nominated films:

What else will these magical bricks build next year?

See also:

• Architects play with LEGO
• Antikythera mechanism explained by LEGO
• 3D geopolitical maps out of LEGO
• Battle of the plastic figures: Playmobil dark wave vs LEGO heavy metal

it’s a small web wishes you a merry Christmas

We have learned, watched and enjoyed so many things this year. It’s been a year of infographics, beautiful design, crazy ideas, full of music, creative short films, amazing photographic series from young influential artists.

Merry Chistmas!

The new frame

Sleeveface: the new trend. A new form of art created by extending the art cover of a vinyl record outside of its confined frame in order to create a new frame. The best examples of 2001 have been compiled in Sleeveface website. Here is our pick:

Photo credit: Birgit Veigel, Johannes Veigel, ThomasVeigel

Photo credit: Nicolas Lincy

See more sleeveface art after the jump

Creating a mini universe

In 2010, scientists succeeded in recreating a miniature version of the Big Bang. Within a few years, some of the universe’s deepest secrets may be unlocked.

In Genesis,  a 3D short film, Andreas Wannerstedt is taking the change to create a miniature universe and become a mini God.

See also:

• Science songs
• How big is our universe?
• Science distilled in a phrase
• Antikythera mechanism explained by LEGO

The history of Western typefaces

You know it already. itsasmallweb loves words and their design, we are obsessed with fonts and typefaces and that is why we got really excited with Mashable’s infographic: A History of Western Typefaces. Here is their story:

See the full infographic after the jump

A film and its multiple interpretations

A film is a different experience for each of us. A different interpretation based on our interests, experiences, life. The Silver Screen Society created by Trevor Basset, Brandon Schaefer and Adam Hanson is a website which invite artists each month to create art based on a chosen film and present their own ‘visual’ interpretations of their favourite film.

See more after the jump

Dot by dot

A portrait made entirely of dots. Following the great tradition of pointillism of Georges Seurat, Paul Signac and other notable painters, Miguel Endara created Hero, a portrait of his father, using 3.2 million dots.

Watch the amazing making-of video.

via Laughing Squid

See also:

• Made of crayons
• Ceci n’est pas une post
• The quest of an artist
• The Man in the Black Coat

The man and the moon

This is the story of a man who found the Moon and decided to spend his life with his new friend. In other words this is a visual poem entitled Private Moon, designed by Leonid Tishkov and photographed by Boris Bendikov.

See more photos after the jump

Living inside an IKEA catalogue

The existential drama of a woman living inside an IKEA catalogue.

Written and directed by: Jeroen Houben, Tim Arts, Stefan van den Boogaard