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Tetris by Michael Johansson (image source)
Michael Johansson
Tetris, 2014
Ordinary items
34 x 45 x 10 cm
Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag (NL)
Work by Swedish artist Michael Johansson. So satisfying, can’t not enjoy a collection of things organised so precisely. Would love to see someone design a portfolio website for him with something like Masonry…
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Folding structure (64K17) by Erika Hock (image source)
Erika Hock
Folding structure (64K17), 2013
Copper, leather
Dimensions variable
Would love to see some of Erika Hock’s work in person.
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Detail of Wave 1 by Noriko Ambe (image source)
Noriko Ambe
Wave 1, 2012
Cut paper
8.3 × 65.6 × 142.3 cm
Pretty dedicated stuff by Noriko Ambe.
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Vignettes of the contentious President Andrew Jackson, by the talented lady behind “Hark, a vagrant”
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DIY project: pure simple side table | DesignSponge
Another Enzo Mari-esque piece of furniture, nice since there aren’t any side tables in his book (I think?). Posted a while back on Design Sponge by Silvia Song.
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The Ballroom by Agustina Woodgate, from The Wild Magazine (image source)
Agustina Woodgate
The Ballroom, 2014
175 outdated sanded World globes
Variable dimensions
The Ballroom, impressive work.
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Still very much enjoying Wind Map
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ISOTYPE graphic from Brain Pickings (image source)
How long different animals live, in vintage ISOTYPE infographic. Austrian sociologist, philosopher, and curator Otto Neurath, who was born 130 years ago today, and his wife Marie pioneered the International System Of Typographic Picture Education in the 1930s, laying the foundation for modern infographics.
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Images of the Artist Files at the Getty Research Institute (image source)
The “artist files” in visionary curator Harald Szeemann’s archive at the Getty Research Institute are now processed and available to researchers!
Housed in some 850 boxes, these files contain records on over 20,000 20th-century artists, from A to Z.
Pictured above: the files of John Baldessari, John Lennon, and Keith Haring
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What would Richard Feynman Do?, from blog Onionesque Reality (image source)
Need to read more about Feynman. This is a good place to start, also biographies and his own books.
Addition 20/3/15 – Start here
Addition 17/5/15 – Finally had the time to read book linked above, enjoyed it very much and recommend it