Tuesday, 10 September 2024
quote [ Consumers often have specific expectations around the design of international food packaging, with a preference for ?folksy? or traditional aesthetics, which they perceive as more authentic. This trend suggests that many consumers distrust contemporary designs, associating them with a dilution of cultural authenticity. ]
Bit hipstery but in-depth take on the sensible topic of ethnic branding.
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Saturday, 31 August 2024
quote [ If it took you this long to identify one of the most epic genres of art history, welcome to the club. We must have skipped class that day. The aesthetic: a lost civilization ? its crumbling and vaguely familiar architectural forms dramatically lit by a sunset backdrop, and in the foreground, a congregation of folks are musing amidst the ruins. ]
Shadows of a lost civilization
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Friday, 23 August 2024
quote [ The Mushroom Color Atlas is a resource and reference for everyone curious about mushrooms and the beautiful and subtle colors derived from dyeing with mushrooms.
[?] Join artist, mycophile, and educator Julie Beeler in the forest and in her studio as she shows you how to create vivid dyes and pigments from mushrooms. ] Great browser web thing as an upcoming book companion.
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Wednesday, 31 July 2024
quote [ We are seeking personal, poetic, and human websites. If you would like your site to be considered for the first edition, click the link below to submit your website and we will get back to you. ]
Looks more artsy than Yahoo, but hey, they're actually printing it.
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Tuesday, 30 July 2024
quote [ Dither gifs and stills, keep or discard colour, make chunky dithers, create fun art, fuck about with coding!
Part One: Getting Started [?] Part Two: Dithering Process and Optimisation ] Interesting tool built-up + explanation
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Sunday, 28 July 2024
quote [ By exploring the menstrual product industry in his art for the last forty years, Miss Tampon Liberty and Critchley have reconfigured the maligned object of menstrual waste several times. From his discovery of innocent ??beach whistles? in the 1970s, to the realisation about their practical use as plastic tampon applicators, and, to the call for a more precise definition of plastics as ??petroleum items.? ]
That's a cool in-depth article about successful eco-activism art from [checks] 3 years ago.
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Wednesday, 19 June 2024
quote [ converts images into ASCII silhouettes, a style of ASCII art distinguished by uniformly filled geometric shapes rather than lines or textures. For input, the app expects flat graphics??visuals with minimalistic, high-contrast forms lacking dimensional depth, such as logos, banners, and pixel art. ]
Looks interesting and goes into some depths of translating dimensions into classic ASCII chars.
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Tuesday, 18 June 2024
quote [ No matter that this man is handsome and of spotless character ?? he??s Sidney Poitier, for crying out loud ?? his presence, in all its Blackness, marks an intrusion, upending this hitherto White space. ]
This is absolutely fascinating. I can't help but to imagine the lives and beliefs of the people in these photographs, and to wonder what they'd think of Omar.
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Thursday, 6 June 2024
quote [ A tribute to the great frog, avenging angel and magician's ally in Japanese art ]
Seen the bull frog and the toad, shakin' it, breakin' it with the load.
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Tuesday, 4 June 2024
quote [ If you find the Hydrant Directory useful, please share it with others. ]
features 3d models and color codes of painted urban hydrants
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