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THE FOOD PROJECT. THE SHAPE OF TASTE
Putput
Pantone Food
minneapolis-based graphic designer and illustrator david schwen has created a series of the perfect pantone food matches
in an instagram project entitled ‘pantone pairings‘. bread and butter, chips and salsa or even peanut butter and jelly –
the ongoing collection offers the perfect flavor soulmates in easy to understand swatches.
Paul Elliman
Graphic Arrays // Aram Bartholl
What 15 Years Of Computer Screen Evolution Looks Like
I am showing a new work at DAM Frankfurt “BACK TO BACK” , opening next Sunday. “Graphic Arrays” is about screen resolutions and aspect ratios and how these evolved over the laste decades. The left board is dedicated to more recent mobile vertical resolution ending at iPad retina. The right board represents the long history of desktop screen pixel sizes starting with the classic VGA (640×480) IBM standard from 1987 till todays common 2560×1600 desktop monsters. It’s also fun to look up the top screen resolutions of Internet users for each year screenresolution.org, sometimes even sorted by country (which it was up to date). My first screen ever was a PAL 576×768 on a C64. Currently I am looking at 2560×1440 vastness. Of course the DPI(PPI) has increased immensely over the years, especially with all the mobile screens recently. It feels weird to look at a 5:4 SXGA screen (1280×1024, my favorite!) today, almost portrait ration?!? At the same time when you cut a piece of paper in 16:9 format it looks overkill horizontal. But we look at that ratio all day! (…our glowing window of desire … (in 16:9 …;)) Update: The actual resulution of pixel sized paper sheets is classic 72 ppi (pixel per inch) like the first screens in the good old days. 🙂 Some people’ve been asking…
See also related the verticalcinema.com project.
Chantelle King
Cover of iPad publication
Chantelle King
Sam Hall
Means to an End publication. (Not Now.)
Ink Calendar
Ink Calendar is a cleverly designed prototype of a self-advancing calendar by London-based artist Oscar Diaz. The basic idea behind the inventive day tracker is that a vile of ink is absorbed by a trail of paper cut into sequential numeric values—like a row on a calendar. What’s especially impressive is that the season-specific color of ink slowly soaks each number within a day’s time, allowing one to tell what day it is by how far the ink has made it on the calendar. Furthermore, this gradual progression across each day’s double-digit representation provides an awareness of time’s passage, especially on a daily scale. By the end of the month, the calendar’s numbers are designed to be fully soaked in color.
Lost Construction Jobs in Italy
In the last decade, the construction industry has taken a hard hit in Italy; so much so that several associations in the field of construction have sponsored a protest at the steps of the Milan Stock Exchange. According to the Center for Economic Research and Market Sociology, there has been a loss of 157,000 companies and 893,000 employees over the last five years. Due to these statistics and personally apparent losses, people have united on a day they’ve deemed La Giornata della Collera, which translates as The Day of Anger.
Last week, thousands of workers at different levels of the industry (from physical laborers to architects and real estate agents) joined forces to present a visually striking installation of 10,000 yellow construction helmets. The hard hats were laid in the public square to represent the jobs lost in 2012. At the center of the display stands a statue of a crude hand gesture—a severed hand giving the middle finger. The piece, which was erected in the piazza in 2010, is ironically titled L.O.V.E. by artist Maurizio Cattelan and seems to complement the peaceful protest exhibition. Together they demonstrate a powerfully wordless display of disappointment, frustration, and rage.
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