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Astronomical prints of the solar system, c. 1760-1825

A technical drawing of Blackwork Embroidery by Aisling Smyth, an Irish Textile Artist.

The Japanese word shokunin is defined by both Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries as ‘craftsman’ or ‘artisan,’ but such a literal description does not fully express the deeper meaning. The Japanese apprentice is taught that shokunin means not only having technical skills, but also implies an attitude and social consciousness… The shokunin has a social obligation to work his/her best for the general welfare of the people. This obligation is both spiritual and material, in that no matter what it is, the shokunin’s responsibility is to fulfill the requirement.

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— Toshio Odate

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Rudolph Schindler, Lovell Beach House, (1926)

"In the Lovell beach house located in Newport Beach, living space was developed inside of five free-standing reinforced concrete frames, cast in the form of square figure eights. Schindler objected to pipe column stilts, calling his own system ‘projections of five visible concrete frames which form an organic skeleton.’

The Lovell house was not primarily a drawing board solution—as was much of the work done at that time by the Constructivists in Europe. Schindler’s purpose in using the frames was to raise the house above the public beach, and also to develop a skeletal system solid and flexible enough to withstand earthquakes.”

—Esther McCoy. Five California Architects.

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Neon moiré.

Throughout Catalogue & Price List of Eugene Dietzgen Co.: Manufacturers of Drawing Materials and Surveying Instruments (1911). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 19, 2007.

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Space Colony Art from the 1970’s

Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Centre and Stanford University held a series of space colony studies that explored the potentiality of humans inhabiting giant spaceships. Structures that held over 10,000 people were constructed and the artistic representations of them are fascinating.

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sagansense: The Beauty of Scientific Diagrams is a typography set by Khyati Trehan that “integrates the initial of scientists with the diagrams they were responsible for”. via staceythinx

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Rhinoceros by David Kandel

* Copy of Dürer’s engraving.

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The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes. The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention by J * B.

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Scenes from the Second Dacian War, fought from 105 to 106 AD between forces of the Dacian king Decebalus and the legions of the Roman emperor Trajan, who was fed up with Decebalus’ rabble-rousing since the close of the First Dacian War in 102 A.D. Though Rome would lose Dacia and surrounding territories about a century later, the Romanization of the local aristocracy would lay the foundation for what we call Romania today. (Engravings from Colonna Traiana, eretta dal Senato, e popolo Romano all’imperatore Traiano Augusto, nel suo foro in Roma. Scolpita con l’historie della guerra dacica, courtesy of the New York Public Library) (Click pics for captions)

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Getting ready for 2016

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Gottfried Böhm, Neviges Pilgrimage Church, (1962)

When a miraculous engraving in copperplate of the Immaculata was brought to Neviges in the seventeenth century, it became a pilgrimage center for the religious. Around 1960, the church decided that they wanted to construct a new building, starting a competition which would result in a new church amidst a Franciscan monastery and other late-baroque architecture. This led to a series of competitions, eventually won by architect Gottfried Bohm, although initially his design was not accepted as the judges thought it to be exaggerated and manneristic.

Bohm’s design incorporated extensive interior caves in both the main and lower churches, the chapel niches were formed by jointless folds of concrete, the piers were either free-standing or formed by the edges of the walls, and the folded sections were illuminated only by small roof lights that peak just above the altar.

As is the case with many structures built with innovative materials or designs, the maintenance of this church has proved to be somewhat of an issue. The sand-blasted and site-poured concrete did not have any insulation or damp-proofing upon installation as it was intended originally for summer purposes only. The members of the town decided to make it comfortable and enjoyable year round, so they furnished the church with a heater which changed the thermal behavior of the structure. It was suggested that the roof of the church be covered with lead or slate, but eventually it was painted with a light-colored paint sealant that unfortunately separates the roof from the walls visually. All of the money and time that went into making the church a perfect pilgrimage destination has taken its toll on the little town, as the streams of pilgrims started to dry up even during the planning and building period.

“Today the pilgrimage church is like a memory of another epoch… disturbing and magnificent.”