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POPSMapping Kerouac: The Grammatical Artwork of Stefanie Posavec Posavec dissects every word, phrase, sentence, and subject of Kerouac's On the Road to invent new ways of looking at the familiar masterpiece. The diagrams make for beautiful art in their own right. (See source for high-res pictures.) In her structure analysis, each chapter explodes in a color-coded starburst of topical breakdowns. At a glance, you can see Kerouac's focus wander from the sketches of local life in the beginning, to depictions of work and travel in the middle, with women and the subject of love dominating the latter chapters. The comparative sentence diagrams are what really drew me in. It's fascinating to behold an entire literary work all at once on one page. What's more, Kerouac's casual prose style can be differentiated immediately from the stately, grandiose writing of Faulkner, not to mention the terse, claustrophobic style of Orwell's fiction. Literary reductionism at its most fun and beautiful.
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POPSArtists Using the Full Spectrum "I’m excited by artists who are finding ways to adapt the rainbow spectrum in their work.The color field (or chromatic abstractionist) artists of the 50’s often painted with bold swaths of color but rarely used as many together as the featured artists of this article. In the 60’s, psychedelic art used colors and patterns together too. The modern artists I’ll cover in this post use color in an undiluted, anything but soft array of graphic lines and shapes resulting in work that is both vivid and alluring. Their work circumvents the boundaries their predecessors put in place to arrive at a new and bold take on prior styles."
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POPSVery Long-Term Backup- Rosetta One side of the disk contains a graphic teaser. The design shows headlines in the eight major languages of the world today spiraling inward in ever-decreasing size till it becomes so small you have trouble reading it, yet the text goes on getting smaller. The sentences announce: “Languages of the World: This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year 02008 C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation.” This graphic side of the disk is pure titanium. A black oxide coating has been added to the surface. The text is etched into that, revealing the whiter titanium. This bold sign board is needed because the pages of genesis which are etched on the mirror-like opposite side of the disk are nearly invisible.
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POPS"Librarary" - turning a new page "In Holon, this utopia already has become a reality. Its Mediatheque library offers a plethora of services, including book borrowing, theater and graphic design." "The institution is modeled on a French concept, said Mediatheque head librarian Toni Dory. "In France they don't call it a bibliotheque - a library - but rather a mediatheque, to express the variety it offers," he said. "
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POPSTypographical Artwork of Tauba Auerbach Following in the footsteps of Douglas Hofstadter and Scott Kim, Auerbach explores the interplay between the form and content of the English alphabet to create novel insights into our everyday written symbology.
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POPSMadToe-Footloose on the Net Never underestimate people with disabilities. I have "talked" with Leigh Anne a few times. She is a real go getter and last year fulfilled her dream to go sky diving. ( Better her than me, I'm to chicken :D ).
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POPSHow to make an awesome logo Pretty empirical guide to putting your own easily-recognizable identity together. If anything, it helps calm fears that "IT'S TOO HARD!" I should note tho, that Blue Laguna's logo appears to have changed yet again after the making of this tutorial.
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