The Science of Graphic Production

Age: 30. Graphic designer, amateur chef, history buff, and die-hard bibliophile. Contents of this blog: 20% inspiring art & design, 15% bits of my own work (original or fanart), 20% Sherlock Holmes, 10% other...

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feels weird to be sitting in my living room while there's an attempted coup happening on a wednesday afternoon

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“My middle name really is perseverance. I’ve always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person… I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn’t worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that’s what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them… I felt I had talent.”

Happy 87th birthday to Rita Moreno, trailblazing artist and living legend! Here she is in Loomis Dean’s 1954 photographs for LIFE and in the present-day, as gorgeous and glorious as ever.

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A clever divorce lawyer’s card.

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Savage

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Memories of the Old Lady by Мaistora Via Flickr:

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Admont Abbey Library, Austria

Photo: Dieter Karner, +

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circumhorizontal arcs, otherwise known as a fire rainbow, are created when light from a sun that is at least 58 degrees above the horizon passes through the hexagonal ice crystals that form cirrus clouds which, because of quick cloud formation, have become horizontally aligned. (click pic or link for credit x, x, x, x, x)

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look at these gay fuckin clouds

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This handsome little fella is a Leachie gecko, not a dinosaur. Credit: androze http://imgur.com/gallery/BrOpu

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Reptar

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Watercolor by Agnes Bodor 

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Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter (1968)

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There is normal sass, and then there’s “Katherine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine” sass.

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BOOK OF THE DAY:

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

“[A] dazzling literary high-wire act … brilliant … The payoff is extraordinary: a fearless, acrobatic, ultimately haunting effort.“ – Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Jonathan Safran Foer’s debut semi-autobiographical novel Everything Is Illuminated was published when he was 25 years old. As a freshman in Princeton University, he attended Joyce Carol Oates’ Intro to Writing class, in where she told him that his writing possessed the best quality a writer could showcase: energy. Nevertheless, Foer displays such energy, charisma and wit in Everything Is Illuminated. It follows the story of Jonathan, who hopes to meet with the woman who might have saved his grandfather from the Nazis fifty years ago in the Ukraine along with the help of his translator, Alex.

Everything Is Illuminated doesn’t follow a traditional structure. It often switches from the narratives of Jonathan’s grandfather’s past life to the present day, interjected with Jonathan’s and Alex’s point of views. Foer successfully introduces how cultural misunderstandings can be deemed cruel, which turns out to be a hilarious story in many parts. Overall Foer’s character, Alex makes language fun; he is subliminal, philosophical but funny. Although the journey is heartbreaking, it is also beautiful.

Read excerpts from the book here!

[Book Design by Philipp Möckli]

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Glass pen and glow ink drawing. Via Peter Draws.

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we’ve all been bearing bad news in america for the past few days, I think we deserve to hear some good news. Malala just got accepted to oxford university!!!! being a huge advocate for girlMs education, this acceptance to one of the best universities in the WORLD is well deserved. congrats to her 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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Go Malala! Oxford is lucky to have her and I hope she has a great time!

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Damn. 

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This awesome little kiosk/machine was recently spotted at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France. The idea is simple, first select your desired reading time (one, three or five minutes) and voila! A random short story will be printed for your enjoyment. Photograph by MisallocatedRacism

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Cheesy Garlic Bread

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just precisely how bad was 1500s jerusalem at making maps, you ask? well,

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this…is a fidget spinner

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Reblog if you believe in fidget spinner earth.