Difference between Arial & Helvetica
Someone at work sent this out. The angles are particularly interesting to see in this form.
Spelling with Flickr
Spell whatever you want, using images of letters from Flickr. Cool tool.
Poor cow
Aww.
NYC subway ridership
A cool visualization of how NYC subway ridership has evolved over the last century.
More at the artist’s website and Visual Complexity.
Google Street View “Holodeck”
Step into Google StreetView “Holodeck” simulator that Google has at its Mountain View campus, and you get StreetView scenes animated, projected on screens all around you, as if you were inside the camera itself. I got to check it out earlier this week during my business trip to the Mountain View office and it was fun exploring the world in life-size 360-degrees — until I felt just about 360-degrees of nausea.
See a 360-degree panoramic view of the Google Holodeck: http://www.360cities.net/image/streetview-cave-googleplex
Read more about the Holodeck: http://searchengineland.com/google-holodeck-streetview-in-360-degrees-19808
Google Android G2
I still haven’t had the chance to play with any of the new Android G2 models but I can’t wait to drool all over one. Photo courtesy of Gizmodo.
Ampersand love
While designing my wedding invitations, I have acquired a new, fond appreciation of the ampersand. Check out my homies Baskerville & Baskerville Italic‘s curves, wow.
Harry Beck, infographic artist from the 30′s
“The two maps on the top are only a few months apart; however, they are separated by a drastic shift in mindset. The one on the left is the foldout map from 1932, still trying to conform to the geographical accuracy of its many stations. The one on the right, from 1933, was the brainchild of engineering draftsman Harry Beck, who decided to disregard geography for sake of legibility and understanding, leading to an irreversible path to abstraction.”
“A Summer’s Past” Linocut, 2002
Here’s a serious blast from the past, a linocut I did during my undergraduate years at Smith College. I majored in Studio Art and concentrated in Digital — but I sure loved my printmaking courses. After all those years of playing with digital ink, I had to fight against instinct and finally get my hands dirty in the real deal, oil-based litho ink that we used for our linoleum cuts and lithograph prints.
“A Summer’s Past” is featured in the student artwork gallery of the Smith Art department website.
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