Beth Goolsby
Artist
I’ve been working with a couple of friends on a public park/art project in San Francisco. I hope to have better drawings done this weekend of what my designs are for the stairs and the walls around the Bernal Cut.
A love letter written to Belle and Sebastian, a print by Justin Walsh and Nissa Ellison-Walsh:
Dear Seymour Stein,
Have you considered that we should be seeing other people? Maybe the stars of track and field? I know, I know… you’re just the boy done wrong, again. But I’m sick of waiting for the moon to rise when we’re together.
I’m the wrong girl for you. There’s too much love, but I still feel like I’m always wandering alone. You see, you’re always wrapped up in books, and with the state I am in, that leaves me feeling the loneliness of a middle distance runner.
So I’m waking up to us. Put the book back on the shelf, because there won’t be any more words written about you and me.
I know you’ll probably be hurt by this (is it wicked not to care?), but when I’m with you, the blues are still blue and in the state that I am in your expectations are just too much. I just want to be myself completely.
I wish I could say that my wandering days are over, but the truth is I don’t love anyone now.
You’ll probably tell your friends that I’m just another calculating bimbo. But I can see your future and if you, too, stop, look and listen, you’ll know that I’m right.
So don’t leave the light on baby, or at least not for me. But one day, if you find yourself caught in love again, remember that once you were mine, my funny little frog.
Stay loose,
Mary Jo
Olenishka Chair by Niazique.
There’s a new book on Alexander Girard by Todd Oldham & Kiera Coffee. I can’t wait to get my copy.
(Source: weloveartanddesign.com)
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Unofficial Map: Paris Metro with Geolocated Stations
Further to yesterday’s post, here’s a new unofficial map of the Paris Metro that’s been hot on the interwebs over the last few days. Unlike the official RATP diagram, this version places all the stations in their exact geographical locations, although I suspect the route lines have been tweaked between those points to create more graceful curves than in reality. Also unlike the official map, it doesn’t attempt to show tram services or mainline train routes, removing some valuable information.
According to the author, the benefits of his map include showing where it’s easier to walk instead of transferring to another train (he uses the excellent example of transferring at St-Michele to get to Cité station, when you’d really be better off just getting off at St-Michele and walking over the Seine to the same point) and enhanced zone information (it’s often cheaper to catch the Metro to a similar point and remain in Zone 1, when the RER station may be in Zone 2 or 3!)
The map also makes use of Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized colour theme, a set of well-designed low contrast colours specifically designed for on-screen viewing. However, with a transit map, our eyes often need contrast to allow patterns to be discerned and routes to be followed, so I’m not entirely sure about its application in this case.
The author also claims that his map is good for color-blind users, but I’m not entirely convinced that his solution - tiny, rune-line marks on each line on either side of station marker - are actually any more effective than the big line numbers at the end of each line. More on this tomorrow.
Have we been there? Yes.
What we like: Overall effect looks gorgeous. A lot of thought and theory has been applied to this work. Released under a Creative Commons license, which is very generous.
What we don’t like: Labelling of stations gets messy in the centre of Paris. Zone areas look very blobby: these could have been smoothed out a little more. The perfect circle described by the eastern end of Line 7B goes against the author’s stated goals of accuracy and comes across as an affectation. Colour-blind route markers are too small to be of any use.
Our rating: Interesting, well-executed, but flawed. Not as good as the real thing. Three-and-a-half stars.
(Source: Author’s Website [in French] - Google Translate English version here)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu93pgVjtp1r54c4oo1_500.png)
Unofficial Map: Paris Metro with Geolocated Stations
Further to yesterday’s post, here’s a new unofficial map of the Paris Metro that’s been hot on the interwebs over the last few days. Unlike the official RATP diagram, this version places all the stations in their exact geographical locations, although I suspect the route lines have been tweaked between those points to create more graceful curves than in reality. Also unlike the official map, it doesn’t attempt to show tram services or mainline train routes, removing some valuable information.
According to the author, the benefits of his map include showing where it’s easier to walk instead of transferring to another train (he uses the excellent example of transferring at St-Michele to get to Cité station, when you’d really be better off just getting off at St-Michele and walking over the Seine to the same point) and enhanced zone information (it’s often cheaper to catch the Metro to a similar point and remain in Zone 1, when the RER station may be in Zone 2 or 3!)
The map also makes use of Ethan Schoonover’s Solarized colour theme, a set of well-designed low contrast colours specifically designed for on-screen viewing. However, with a transit map, our eyes often need contrast to allow patterns to be discerned and routes to be followed, so I’m not entirely sure about its application in this case.
The author also claims that his map is good for color-blind users, but I’m not entirely convinced that his solution - tiny, rune-line marks on each line on either side of station marker - are actually any more effective than the big line numbers at the end of each line. More on this tomorrow.
Have we been there? Yes.
What we like: Overall effect looks gorgeous. A lot of thought and theory has been applied to this work. Released under a Creative Commons license, which is very generous.
What we don’t like: Labelling of stations gets messy in the centre of Paris. Zone areas look very blobby: these could have been smoothed out a little more. The perfect circle described by the eastern end of Line 7B goes against the author’s stated goals of accuracy and comes across as an affectation. Colour-blind route markers are too small to be of any use.
Our rating: Interesting, well-executed, but flawed. Not as good as the real thing. Three-and-a-half stars.
(Source: Author’s Website [in French] - Google Translate English version here)
Jim Lambie’s Floor Installations.
Zobop is made with lengths of industrial vinyl tape applied in concentric bands that take their form from the perimeter of the architectural space.
Poster series explaining complex philosophical theories through basic shapes, the work of Genis Carreras aka GEX, a London graphic designer.
It is amazing what you can communicate with shape, color, and form. Great work. There are many more at Carreras’ page.
Via tobyleetham and cloudjunky
laser owl, acrylic gouache on birch panel
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac exhibition
For their first major retrospective, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec will occupy 1,500sq m of the Centre Pompidou Metz until July 2012
whitetail 1 - October 2011
Sennheiser Eco-Vinyl Turntable
[designed by Matthew Lim]
This audio product is made from cost-effective materials (recyclable and biodegradable) without sacrificing its performance and hardware quality. It provides a balance between cost and quality.
A sweeping concept for a product that could breathe new life into vinyl. Designed to be portable, but functionally intended to bring high-quality audio. This is beautiful. Courtesy of theantidote.
