Phonic Font Friday
A great site, http://typophonic.com/, exploring the typographic art of the phonograph record. c. 60s. Thanks to my pal Vil Arias for sending me this pic.
Incredible paintings of sci-fi suburbia will make you wish you were Swedish
By Dante D’Orazio from theverge.com: Welcome to rural Sweden, sometime in the late ’80s. Citizens go about their mundane lives and children explore the countryside. But something isn’t quite right. Robots and hovercrafts are commonplace, and decaying science facilities sprout from the harsh Scandinavian landscape. There’s even a rumor circulating that dinosaurs have returned from […]
Making Everyday Activities Trippy
By Alyssa Coppelman from slate.com: Left: Flying, 1980. Right: Dancing to TV, 1982. Mike Mandel Photographer Mike Mandel creates playful, trippy images that combine everyday activities with bursts of color and light that track his subjects’ motions. For his project and subsequent book, Making Good Time, which took the better part of the 1980s to […]
Mobile phones: 40 years of handsets in pictures
From the Guardian UK: As we reach the 40th anniversary of the first public mobile phone call, we look back at four decades of innovation, from the “brick” handsets of the 1970s and 1980s to today’s smartphones. Expert Mike Short says: “Since its first use 40 years ago, the mobile phone has completely changed our […]