Fear Font Friday 2 (OK, OK, it’s Thursday)
For Halloween, what’s skarier than a skeleton? What about the kind of person who makes a skeleton out of designer-y type? Def skarier. Not to be confused with my post Fear Font Friday 1. Skeleton Typogram, A Human Skeleton Illustration Made Using The Words For Each Bone “Skeleton Typogram” by designer Aaron Kuehn is a gorgeous typographic artwork […]
Flesh-Free Font Friday
Skeletons! A classic Halloween visual. Here’s a skeleton font from a new-to-me source: home machine embroidery. How the embroidery works: you install software from a website or disk and it tells your home embroidery machine—your enhanced sewing machine or dedicated device—how to make the letterforms or designs. This alphabet was developed by trishsthreads.com and is […]
Medieval Bling: Skeletons Encrusted in Jewels and Gold
From hyperallergic.com: St. Valerius in Weyarn (all images copyright Paul Koudounaries and courtesy Thames & Hudson) In a forthcoming book titled Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs, Los Angeles photographer Paul Koudounaris brings before his lens bejeweled skeletons long-lost in the catacombs of Rome. The remains were first unearthed in 1578, when […]
Fearsome Chrome T-Rex Sculpture on the Banks of the Seine in Paris
By EDW Lynch from laughingsquid.com: photo by Anthony Gelot A fearsome chromed skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex was recently installed on the banks of the Seine in Paris. Created by artist Philippe Pasqua, the aluminum and chrome sculpture is nearly 23 feet long and consists of 350 bones. photo by Jean-Charles Sarfati
Minuscule yet functional gold skeleton expected to sell for $150-250,000 at Sotheby’s
By Alexis Coe from The Awl: In 1896, Israel Rouchomovsky, in Odessa, completed a 3-1/2 inch gold skeleton with 167 parts. It had taken five long years to create a fully articulated rendering, and he took particular delight in the lower jaw, which opened and shut. In Rouchomovsky’s memoirs, he wrote that he was truly satisfied […]