Currently enjoying the Icebreaker performance of Philip Glass’ Music with Changing Parts. Does anyone know the story behind the excellent cover design?
Huge thanks to Mareen Fischinger and the Icebreaker camp’s own Teresa Binder for identifying the cover designer as Tony Pritchard, a principal lecturer at the London College of Communication. Pritchard has acted as Icebreaker’s graphic designer for over twenty years. Once again, crowdsourcing succeeds in record time!
From Pritchard’s notes on the project: The design is based on the musical structure (76 vertical divisions) over which 8 (horizontal) groups of musicians play the themes randomly.
A veiled woman was out and about in Amman, Jordan, Monday. One of the WSJ Pictures of the Day, September 28th, by Mohammad abu Ghosh/Associated Press.
(via Monoscope)
Mesmerizing geometric collages by Sarah Gee, Canadian artist and half of the most excellent Ouno Design. Materials consist of paper, acrylics, and archival ink.
Her work can be seen at Vancouver’s East Side Culture Crawl 2009 this weekend.
(via ouno)
Aaand I just licked the screen. Flickr user insect54 has set up Autografik, a pool dedicated to graphic design applied to motor vehicles. With a focus on modernist corporate identities of the 60’s and 70’s. It’s all so gorgeous.
(via We Made This)
Icebergs Series by Vancouver photographer David Burdeny.
During 2007 and into the spring of 2008, I made several long journeys to the upper and lower extremes of our planet to photograph the shorelines, monolithic ice forms and landscapes of Greenland, Iceland and Antarctica. Most of these places are arduous to reach, beyond the borders of domestic transportation routes, accessible only by small aircraft or boat. All are endangered to some extent – threatened by tourism, climate change, industry and the hunt for oil.
The photo pictured at top, Iceberg 01, Greenland, 2007, helped win Burdeny the title of IPA Nature Photographer of the Year, 2008. Scroll to the second half of the Young Gallery page to see his equally surreal Shorelines Series, made along the shorelines of Japan, Northern France, and the Pacific Northwest.
(via Mareen Fischinger)
Silicone Switches, a 2006 reimagining of the common wall switch by industrial designer Ross McBride.
According to the project page, their availability has been limited to Japan through Max Ray Co., Ltd.
(via notcot)
Fantastic retro International Year of Astronomy 2009 Posters by Simon Page.
Apparently, what started as Page’s personal project got the attention of the IYA2009 and ended up becoming official promotional work for the organization. Well played!
(via ISO50)
TimeTuner is the sharp and savvy alarm clock radio iPhone app by Ammunition Group and DreamSurface. Wake up to classy alarm tones, iPod tracks, or one of 14,000 international streaming radio stations; all within an elegant Dieter Ramsesque interface.
Certainly, the most fleshed out and beautiful app I’ve seen in this category. Love it.