nickBLOGS

designer. muralist. fine artist.

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#firstnight #2017 #boston #concertorgan #music (at First Night Boston)

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Red 4 (at Atlantic Ocean)

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More details to come, but in response to recent events, the Orlando chapter is putting together a Love by Design event. AIGA Orlando is currently seeking poster submissions from our national AIGA chapters for our Love By Design event planned for June 25th. We know the deadline is tight but for those of you asking how you can help out, here is our opportunity. All posters will be sold at the Love by Design event with the 100% of the sales going to oneorlando.org which will benefit the families affected in this tragedy. For more information, check out the submission guidelines in this google doc link: http://tinyurl.com/jq5ogx9 #OrlandoStrong #OneOrlando #OrlandoUnited #OneAIGA (at Orlando, Florida)

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#luckystrike #typography #type #aigaretreat (at American Tobacco Campus)

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And on our left were have Sue Googe for US #Congress ripping off the #google #logo #design (at Raleigh, North Carolina)

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Found the #fightfor15 #wageaction rally downtown (at Primark Boston)

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New lineup and a new stage for the next #bostoncalling, with Battles, Courtney Barnett, Lizzo, & The Front Bottoms, plus others not on my part of the map

[wilwheaton]

We are going to have an historic election one way or another.And not necessarily in a good way. We will elect the first woman or Jewish president or we will elect either a fascist, a far right demagogue or a puppet of a conservative majority that is in thrall to both big money and an agitated,bloodthirsty, racist base. There is no mainstream or “normal” in the Republican party. If for some reason they were to win the signal it would send to the rest of the world really could be devastating. If we have an “existential threat” in this world, it comes from within.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/its-time-to-take-conservative-movement.html (via wilwheaton)

[upworthy]

See how a group of Swedish police officers responded when a fight broke out on the New York subway.

Four Swedish police officers’ New York vacation was interrupted when a fight broke out on the subway. The train operator called for support, and — being cops and all — they dutifully stepped in to help until local authorities arrived.

The visiting cops had to subdue the two men involved in the fight, which no doubt takes skill to do safely. But it’s how they did their job after they gained control that really impressed people.

Watch the full video here.

[sirspenace]

AND THEY DID IT UNARMED.

[redrubied]

Say it louder for those in the back to hear. Calmly and unarmed.

[denise-huxxtable]

Cops who help people, calmly disable a situation and restore public order rather than flex their authority, escalate the situation leading to a shit storm? Interesting….

[micdotcom]

Watch: Ahmed Mohamed speaks out about being arrested 

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[npdistefano]

viα obscuro-quutamo: This sculpture is called Juodasis vaiduoklis (The Black Ghost) and is located in Klaipėda, Lithuania | My edit

[everybodyontheinternet]

On February 26, the FCC is going to decide if the internet should stay free and fair, or if it should be handed over to the cable companies.

You don’t want them to pick the cable companies.

Join everybody on the internet to help the FCC do the right thing.

[npdistefano]

DxB Labor Day Sale!

Grab ‪#‎DxB2014‬ tickets at early bird prices before they sell out!

Full schedule now online.

DxB Labor Day Sale! was originally published on nickdesigns

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The Last of Us UI

Alexandria Neonakis, Naughty Dog UI designer, recently did a guest editorial on Kotaku about the process of designing the interfaces for the Sony game, The Last of Us.

I’d love to see them have more posts like this from other game UI designers. Go over and took a look:

How We Made The Last of Us’s Interface Work So Well

The Last of Us UI was originally published on nickdesigns

[erikkwakkel]

[npdistefano]

A colourful book

I encountered this book from 1692 in a French database today and it turns out to be quite special. For one thing, apart from a single mention in a catalogue, no scholar appears to have written, or even to know about it. Moreover, the object is special because it provides an unusual peek into the workshop of 17th-century painters and illustrators. In over 700 pages of handwritten Dutch, the author, who identifies himself as A. Boogert (Pic 2), describes how to make watercolour paints. He explains how to mix the colours and how to change their tone by adding “one, two or three portions of water”. To illustrate his point he fills each facing page with various shades of the colour in question (lower image). To top it he made an index of all the colours he described, which in itself is a feast to look at (Pics 1 and 3). In the 17th century, an age known as the Golden Age of Dutch Painting, this manual would have hit the right spot. It makes sense, then, that the author explains in the introduction that he wrote the book for educational purposes. Remarkably, because the manual is written by hand and therefore literally one of a kind, it did not get the “reach” among painters - or attention among modern art historians - it deserves.

Pic: Aix-en-Provence, Bibliothèque municipale/Bibliothèque Méjanes, MS 1389 (1228). Luckily, the entire book can be viewed here, in hi-res, zoomable images. Here is a description of the book.

Full disclosure (6 May, 2014): While this colourful book is first presented to a larger audience in this post and there are no Dutch publications devoted to it, I have since posting discovered that it is known by at least one other Dutch scholar. It is currently being studied and will be included in a PhD study to be completed in 2015 at the University of Amsterdam. While it is great that blogs such as The Colossal (here) and Gizmodo (here) have picked it up, it is important to know that I was not the one “discovering” the manuscript. I merely put it on the bigger podium it deserves, via this blog.

erikkwakkel.

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[npdistefano]

Can’t think of any good reason why Wonder Woman hasn’t gotten a film yet.

was originally published on nickdesigns