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Lo-Res Books - Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design
Lo-Res Books - Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design
As our books move online, they become disembodied and dislocated. With Lo-Res Books, I am interpreting my own library, reducing the books in my memory and on my shelves to their smallest digital selves. In this pixelated form, they become abstract, mere suggestions of books. Blown up to poster size, these icons are transformed into flags or beacons. While seemingly abstract, they act as a kind of semaphore, signaling a shared cultural connection between anyone who can decipher them.
#minimalism#design#ds106#ds106:#The#Idea#Machine
·benjaminshaykin.com·
Lo-Res Books - Benjamin Shaykin / graphic design
Justin D. Russo: Video Game Posters
Justin D. Russo: Video Game Posters
I envisioned these as I fell asleep last night. So I woke up this morning with them fully created in my head and I put them together to make them real using Illustrator and Photoshop. Each poster features a minimalist representation of a character from a video game (you can probably guess which ones...if you're cool) as well as quote from the game.
#minimalism#design#ds106#ds106:#The#Idea#Machine
·justindavidrusso.blogspot.com·
Justin D. Russo: Video Game Posters
curator's ǝpoɔ
curator's ǝpoɔ
This is what The Curator's Code is – a suggested system for honoring the creative and intellectual labor of information discovery by making attribution consistent and codified, celebrating authors and creators, and also respecting those who discover and amplify their work. It's an effort to make the rabbit hole open, fair, and ever-alluring. This not about policing the Internet from a place of top-down authority, it's about encouraging respect and kindness among the community.
#ds106#creativecommons#attribution
·curatorscode.org·
curator's ǝpoɔ
Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of stories | Video on TED.com
Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of stories | Video on TED.com
Like all of us, economist Tyler Cowen loves a good story. But in this intriguing talk from TEDxMidAtlantic, he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives -- and our messy, complicated irrational world -- in terms of a simple narrative. In his work, economist Tyler Cowen looks at clues from pop culture, art, food, to gather data and make observations on the world's globalizing culture and commerce
#storytelling
·ted.com·
Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of stories | Video on TED.com
Hypertext lingua franca of the web
Hypertext lingua franca of the web
The Web wouldn't be there if Tim Berners-Lee did not design webbrowser and webserver software, invented HTTP and defined URL. Also not less important if his bosses of CERN wouldn't have had the insight of allowing to have the world this for free it would have gone the same way many other fine projects went: "the big void. "
#history#web
·thocp.net·
Hypertext lingua franca of the web
Drawing Words Writing Pictures
Drawing Words Writing Pictures
This website is a destination for all students and teachers of comics, whether in a formal program of some kind, or learning independently. It’s also for working cartoonists and committed readers of comics—basically anyone with a passion for and a curiosity about the medium. Here you will find activities, tutorials, advice, videos, and links about learning to make, write, or read comics. This work stems out of our teaching and our textbook on comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and its sequel, Mastering Comics. What makes this site unique is that Jessica Abel and Matt Madden, the creators of this site, are working cartoonists and editors who also have more than ten years’ experience teaching comics in a variety of contexts. This means they have the hands-on experience in both teaching and making comics to bring life to learning comics in its every manifestation, from reading the Sunday comics to becoming a comics pro. But dw-wp.com isn’t just a blog. We have a deep and growing col
#storytelling#howto#writing#comics
·dw-wp.com·
Drawing Words Writing Pictures
How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big-Budget Flick | Underwire | Wired.com
How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big-Budget Flick | Underwire | Wired.com
Erwin, who studied history at the University of Iowa, had been posting on Reddit for about five months. He used the alias Prufrock451, a dual reference to the schlubby protagonist of a T. S. Eliot poem and the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451. Prufrock451′s contributions were all over the map. One day he wrote about the historical roots of the civil war in Liberia; another day he told a funny story about a shooting range in Iowa. He also uploaded a few pictures of European forts that he thought looked cool and a quote by Voltaire. In his atypicalness—Prufrock451 was pretty clearly a quirky character—he was entirely typical of a habitual Reddit user, and like many other redditors, as they are called, he found the site addictive. More than just a creative outlet or time-killer, Reddit was a game. The object was to amass points—”Reddit karma.” Every time Erwin saw his karma level increase, he felt a little squirt of adrenaline. “People are sweating to make you laugh or make you think or
#amazingstories#webserendipity#reddit
·wired.com·
How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big-Budget Flick | Underwire | Wired.com