Data + Design Project

A House Precariously Perched 100 Feet in the Air

Friday 06.08.2012 , Posted by

The University of California San Diego recently got an astounding and mind bending addition… a small cottage perched precariously on the edge of Jacobs Hall many stories in the air (fittingly on Engineering Building 1). The custom-built installation was the brain child of artist Do Ho Suh, who said after conceptualizing the highly complex project that he “never thought it would be realized.” Happily he was mistaken: the building is now a reality, jutting out 100 feet in the air from the corner of its cement host buildings rooftop at a disconcertingly canted angle. [Read more...]

Visual Bits #208> Organized Chaos In Art

Thursday 06.07.2012 , Posted by



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Tumblr Treasures- Questionable Advice

Thursday 06.07.2012 , Posted by

Advertisements have been shaping societal values for centuries. They offer advice for how to best “fit in” to the mainstream culture. As our values change, not always for the better, it is fun to look back on the messages that people took to heart before our time. The featured Tumblr this week is called QuestionableAdvice and it is a collection of advertisements from the past. [Read more...]

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A Robotic Arm Lends a Hand to Slow Motion Filmography

Thursday 06.07.2012 , Posted by

In the world of slow motion cinematography the camera action has always been still due to technical limitations, until now. The Marmalade has put together a production studio consisting of directors, DoPs, model-makers, mechanical engineers, food stylists, pyrotechnicians, matte painters, fluids specialists, 3D-animators, and compositing professionals which is capable of producing complex slo-mo shots, using their state of the art equipment and software. [Read more...]

Amazing New Visionary Art by Geoglyphiks

Thursday 06.07.2012 , Posted by

Art is a tool for transformation, on both a personal and planetary level. We can use the arts to express our realities, promote and reflect social change, and connect more deeply with ourselves, each other, and the Earth. From the Lascaux cave paintings, to the Egyptian hieroglyphics, to current-day infographics, it has ever been the role of the arts to preserve and promote knowledge. These are some of the words from artist George “Geo” Atherton. [Read more...]

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Handcrafted Typography of Colorful Stitches

Thursday 06.07.2012 , Posted by

When it comes to modern typography, perfection is almost always the modus operandi. So, what happens when you add handcraft to this near linear equation? The result is not perfect, but instead highly pleasing and even rejuvenating. Graphic Design student Briar Mark recently experimented with creating embroidered sayings on paper for her final project towards a Bachelor degree at AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand. Spending a fantastic amount of time piercing her paper canvas and then stitching her works, she most recently created a piece which reads I Could Have Done This On My Mac… true words when you consider that each of the letters took approximately 30 minutes to stitch, equaling a total creation time of about 37.5 hours when you consider the tri-colored, offset printing effect. [Read more...]

Student Loan Debt: How Big Will the Bubble Grow?

Thursday 06.07.2012 , Posted by

It’s universally understood that college is an expensive place, and there’s no easy way of escaping graduation without incurring some amount of debt. The real question is, “just how much?” When you talk to people about their student loans, it’s not uncommon to hear them bragging about only owing $10,000 – which isn’t too bad for a quality education – but there are people who graduate with so much more than that. The sheer explosion of student loan debt has many people worrying that we are watching another financial bubble in the making. [Read more...]

Visual Bits #207> Marvel-ous Comic Art

Wednesday 06.06.2012 , Posted by



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An Explosive Rainbow of Bright Skulls

Wednesday 06.06.2012 , Posted by

Javier Gonzalez Pacheco started drawing skulls when he was just a kid, and with all those years of practice he’s gotten really, really good at it. His latest creations, both digital and hand-drawn, feature the macabre object in a host of interesting and colorful situations: inside the helmets of space suits, morphing into tape decks, exploding into wild psychedelic swirls and patterns. It all sounds a bit random until you see the engaging and unifying style of his very rocking work. [Read more...]

Rockin’ Reddits- Old School Cool

Wednesday 06.06.2012 , Posted by

Where can you play kick the can with Ernest Hemingway, stand on stage with Freddie Mercury, and kick back with Alan G Shepard in the mission control room at NASA all in the same day? It’s not a dream, it’s not an acid trip, it’s Old School Cool. Old School Cool is a Sub-Reddit where users share old photos of people looking awesome. Described as “a pictorial celebration of history’s coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers and everything in between,” Old School Cool is the safest way to time travel. [Read more...]

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