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some great online stuff here relating to art and design.

beautiful online interactive gallery. sadly it's either in dutch or french - neither of which i speak/read, but the art work is beautiful and you don't need language to appreciate art.

hmmm... would be interesting to look at but the load time is forever! gonna have to check it out when i have more time.

Quoted: Leonardo da Vinci is, arguably, the greatest artist and thinker of all time. This exhibition will illuminate the most fundamental aspect of Leonardo's work: how his mind was able to visualise his incredible theories. Innovative film animations will graphically depict and inform the precious pages and small notebooks in which Leonardo da Vinci detailed his observations and theories, his mighty inventions and his extraordinary visions of the earth in age-old transformation. Large models, most notably a flying machine, tank and a giant crossbow, will also be displayed to illustrate and explain his inventions. Little-known treasures, such as the V&A's Forster Codices - three of Leonardo da Vinci's small notebooks detailing studies on geometry, weights and hydraulic machines, will also be on display.

looking through all of Minoes' illustration / design dots and she has a lot of gems. i figured i could either redot all of them - or just dot her profile! here it is - her illustration dots.

check it out, it's really good stuff.

Quoted: Minoes's Dots on Blue Dot.

here's a bit about paul rand - born peretz rosenbaum.

one of my favorite stories (as told by my professor when i was attending UW's Visual Communication course).

UPS asked him to design a logo for them - he quoted them some ridiculous price. they agreed. after working on it for one weekend he presented them with their logo and said - there it is.

when UPS asked if they could see variations, see additional studies etc... he said no - that's your logo. when UPS asked - how do you know this is it? paul rand responded - i showed it to my grand daughter and asked what it looked like - she said it looked like a present.

UPS took the logo and have continued to be their logo until just recently when they 'updated' it.

side note - after many years paul rand revisited the UPS logo - he felt the bow on the box didn't look right so out of the kindness of his heart he tweeked the UPS logo and told them they should update all their collateral with it. this of course meant updating the plans, trucks, uniforms, labels, etc... etc... etc... - UPS declined - go figure.

other logos he did :
IBM, ABC, ENRON, WESTINGHOUSE, NEXT, CUMMINS ENGINE, YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS - to name a few. (yes... he did enron's logo)

redotting for myself

(yet another) great find.
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a pretty sweet ze frank episode about his 'the ugly myspace page' contest and his views on design. very insightful.

Quoted: Offered every weekday, The Show with Ze Frank offers knowledge, humor and duckies.

redotting this for myself + my friends

great find.
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redotting for myself - great find

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htx said : belgium designer ... cool art graphics