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Data comics

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88 women who draw look up at the sky at the same time all around the world and draw what they see

A tapestry of blue.

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King of the Hill animation help

Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet.

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Rhona Byrne for Facebook AIR program

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So often we charge ahead in our careers with a single-minded focus on our pursuits. In this new series, we slow down and ask designers to reflect on their relationship to the craft. Here the Design Matters host explores what it means to her in a visual essay.

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When TV Logos Were Physical Objects

It goes without saying that nearly everything made with graphic design and video software was once produced using a physical process, from newspapers to TV Logos. But some TV stations and film studios took things even further and designed physical logos that were filmed to create dynamic special eff

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Opinion | A Eulogy for Crayola’s Dandelion

Let us mourn the loss of the yellow crayon — and look forward to something new.

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The 1970s, when we all expressed our individuality via mass-produced t-shirts and novelty patches

American Motorcyclist Association. I’ll ‘fess up to owning a Laurel and Hardy t-shirt when I was a child. I also had one with Humphrey Bogart saying something memorable from Casablanca. Damned if I can remember what it was now. This was as far as I would go with my counter-culture wardrobe. Most of my school friends were of similar mind. They opted for plus fours, smoking jackets and a fine selection of Arran-knit cardigans. Life was so different in Scotland then. Of course, there were some who sported denim jackets decked out in assorted patches imported from America. These mass-produced novelties of old men saying things like “Keep on truckin’” or cartoon dogs offering advice about not eating yellow snow always struck me as frightfully quaint yet rather dumb. I suppose I was just confused as to what these badges were supposed to mean. But what did I know? I was merely an innocent child out of step with the current fashion trends. Soon nearly every youngster across our fabled tartan nation was dressed-up like Joseph in his amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat or at least a brazen tatterdemalion. These patches all signified the same thing. I am unique. I...

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TreeSense

Project from Yedan Qian and Xin Liu is a virtual reality experience where you can become a tree, and provides sense of tactility through Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS):

TreeSense is a sensory VR system that transforms a person into a tree, from a seedling to its full-size form, to its final destiny. The person experiences what it feels like to be a tree by seeing and feeling her arms turning into branches and her body into a trunk. To evoke these sensations, we put electrodes at several key locations on the user’s forearms to stimulate muscles and the skin, so that she can feel branches growing, a worm crawling, or a bird landing on her arm. This intimate, visceral experience dramatically creates an illusion of being a different life form, and thus develops a personal, immediate identification with a need of environmental protection.

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He Can No Longer at the Age of Ninety-Eight (Getty Museum)

He Can No Longer at the Age of Ninety-Eight; Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Francisco de Goya) (Spanish, 1746 - 1828); Spain; about 1819 - 1823; Brush and India ink; 23.3 x 14.4 cm (9 3/16 x 5 11/16 in.); 84.GA.646; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California

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Jennifer Bolande’s Perfectly Aligned Billboards Disappear into the Landscape

Artist Jennifer Bolande uses billboards to advertise the very thing they so often distract us from. Set up between the Gene Autry Trail and Vista Chino in California, the installation not only draws drivers’ attention back to the natural landscape, … Continue reading →

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W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)

Visually dazzling set of hand-drawn charts created by Du Bois, condensing an enormous amount of data on African-American life into aesthetically daring and easily digestible visualisations.

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Solace: An Interactive Animated Film by Evan Boehm

Do you remember spook?