I can imagine the delight of stumbling upon a piece by this Swiss artist: walking past seemingly abstract, scattered lines and realizing the simple geometry at the origin.
Large format brochure designed by The Consult containing data on the fashion and textiles industry. (Via September Industry)
Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg’s beautiful animated map of wind patterns in the US. It even shows speed based on the contrast. Oh, and the map is almost in realtime.
This is an iPad app that turns Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” into an interactive animation. Created by Petros Vrellis.
Nicholas Felton’s latest report is now available to order. Beautiful as always.
A lenticular map of NYC by Christopher Cannon. Isotope 221’s website has a nice description of the project. (Via Raffertyesque)
The Tokyo Ito Museum of Architecture has made a paper craft diagram available for download that will let you recreate the building at 1:150 scale. (Via Things Magazine)
“Optimal” is an interesting choice to describe urine. And not that we need to be scientific about this, but wouldn’t the color be dependent on how much water is in the toilet? (Via)
Good article by Steve Silberman on the woman behind Apple’s first icons, including some great concept sketches. (Via)
Jim Valandingham animates the racial divide in cities using census data of their black and white populations. (Via)
I went to the Talk To Me exhibit at MoMA this past weekend and I highly recommend it. There are too many great pieces to link, but one that’s viewable online is a project cataloging different animal sounds made by children around the world. They are surprisingly different, but mostly all recognizable. They’re also absurdly cute.
