my name is lolian...

I am a [insert label here] designer based in Seattle. Here, you will find a collection of ideas, analog experiences, spaces, objects, and interactions I find interesting.

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Using Humor in Conflict + Why Phoenix Art Museum is better than Portland Art Museum

Using Humor in Conflict + Why Phoenix Art Museum is better than Portland Art Museum

I’ve noticed that when talking to people about social issues, calling them out automatically makes them defensive and even less open to change.  A friend back in Phoenix introduced to me the idea “of using humor to discuss or at least open the space to discuss some of these heavy or confrontational issues.” (more…)

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A challenge to all Transhumanists #transhumanism Before we all go around yelling “My creation will make me more than what I am!” I’d like to ask all transhumanists: what does it mean to be human?

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Lovely animated videos explaining things.

See more videos by Kurzgesagt here.

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These images come from team NanoNephron, composed of designer Lilian Kong and scientist Georgia Charkoftaki. All we can say is WOW!

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My reflection on our process so far: http://liliankong.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/descience-concept/

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Instinct is your highest form of intelligence.

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Sarah Lewis, who wrote this magnificent meditation on creativity, the gift of failure, and the quest for mastery, in conversation with Anna Deavere Smith at the New York Public Library, part of the altogether excellent LIVE from the NYPL series of live events curated by Paul Holdengraber. 

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"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it"

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Using a wide variety of canvases including railroad blueprints, star charts, geological and street maps, Welsh artist Ed Fairburn uses additive and subtractive techniques to create portraits that seem perfectly integrated with the topography of streets, mountains and rivers.

Elaborate New Portraits Drawn on Vintage Maps by Ed Fairburn | via

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Drawing Shadows | Gautam Bhatia | Via

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"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." —Bertrand Russell

The Beauty of Mathematics - Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux

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What goes on inside people's heads?

Milos Rajkovic, aka Sholim, creates Terry Gilliam-esque cutout animations of people’s heads.

The animated GIF versions are available on Tumblr.

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Some of my favorites:

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Ion Hotel | Minarc | Via

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spherical 3D-printed gear.

Mechaneu - Proxy Design Studio

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99 blue spheres aligned to stars in the antarctic sky

Stellar Axis - Lita Albuquerque

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John Franzen.

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"Starting with a straight line, I draw each following sequence by copying the character of the previous. I concentrate on breathing and focus on drawing the successor. [...] In the process of drawing, my lines evolve into a kind of logarithmic pattern and layering, steered merely by aberrances and anomalies of human failure in contrast to the precision of a machine."

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Figurative wood sculptures by Willy Verginer

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These remind me of Christmas train-sets.

Woodhouses - Daniel Barreto

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Literary mashup.

Book Map - Dorothy