Centripetal Notion: category

This is my response to an image recently promoted to the top of social image bookmarking site, FFFFOUND!.

FFFFOUND! is a new-ish image bookmarking site, kind of like del.icio.us for whatever badass photography/art/design/etc. you find around the internet. Not only that though, the website itself is an aggregate cornucopia of beautiful, stimulating, cortex-crunching imagery taken from everyone else’s submissions.

A ton of really excellent graphic and motion design for film and television, specifically sweet futuristic-looking computer interfaces and information visualizations. By Mark Coleran.

Our conventional alphabet contains 19 letters having dissimilar upper and lower case symbols (such as ‘A’ and ‘a’) and 7 letters (c-o-s-v-w-x-z) having symbols that are identical.
It is misleading for a letter, or for any graphic symbol, to have two different designs. Confusion might set in when school children are taught to recognize words even [...]

Some really nice work (and a lot more on their website, not to mention a higher quality version of the video here) from Machine Molle.

A wall chart about 6.5 x 4.5 feet in size, containing an overview of nearly 13.7 billions years of universal history: biological evolution, culture, literature, religion, philosophy, science, technology, art and music.

Si Scott’s beautiful, illustrative & typographic work has been circulating recently — is circulating, who am I to stop it.

Bryan’s dripping, flourishing, richly-textured organic style of illustration is … well, it’s just that. If you’ve seen the music video for Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” then you’re already familiar.

If you’re a fan of Müller-Brockmann, or even if you’re not, check out Gary Butcher (of Fibre)’s excellent animated tribute to JMB’s characteristic style of graphic/exhibition design.

Tycho’s debut album, sort of Boards Of Canada meets Zero 7. In the design world he is known as ISO50, most notably for his line of tshirts, although his graphic and web design skills are no less impressive.