Infographic showing some of the various Shamanic traditions of intoxication throughout the world
For everyone who wishes to enhance their skills at recognizing typefaces in a playful manner. A typeface memory game. With twenty-five pairs of cards, each presenting a different type family, this is a very stylish and interesting typographic concentration game. The kit includes a typographical glossary with the main terms used in typography as well as a text about the evolution of type design, locating in history each one of the fonts used in the game. Get it here.
“Entitled Queens 20/20 Concepcion’s wall-drawings spontaneously respond to the works on display by mixing up optimistic and apocalyptic analysis and extensions of their visions. Being constantly developed during the exhibition’s entire duration, Concepcion’s guerrilla-style wall drawing amplifies the viewing experience and carries the recent past into the continuous future.” Queens Museum of Art
Queens 20/20
2008
Commissioned site-specific wall drawings
Ernest Concepcion
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Crosswaters Ecolodge
Simón Vélez, architect and pioneer in the contemporary use of bamboo as an essential building component. He invented a new method to build foundations and roofs, which transformed one of the world’s oldest building materials, namely bamboo, into a modern resource.
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Japanese umbrellas, Wagasa 和傘. Image via Pinterest
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Scenes of life in early-twentieth-century Little Manila, the Filipino American community in Stockton, California. From Little Manila Is in the Heart by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (Duke University Press, 2013).
"Dear obese PhD applicants: if you didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth"
— ICYMI: This tweet, sent from the Twitter account of evolutionary psychologist and professor Geoffery Miller, has sent the the academic world into a frenzy. Read the rest of the story on NPR’s 13.7 Cosmos & Culture blog. (via npr)
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