Schladming 2004

nighttime at Abbey Road, via Flash

“A Randompixel camera was given to a stranger. Stickers on the camera instruct the recipient to take a few pictures and pass it along. When the camera is done, it is dropped in the mail, it returns home, and the pictures are posted here”

photoblog

This year’s winners include Wikipedia and Creative Commons!

mail, shopping cart, note, and comment icons &c.

nytimes on the impact of the movement on gotham

“an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Dublin, Ireland by designing huge light sculptures with 22 robotic searchlights located on and around O’Connell Street”

royalty-free stock photography

‘The emphasis is on vintage signs but not exclusively. My earliest photographs date from the mid 1980’s. Many of these signs no longer exist’

photo from chumpographica

“A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made…”

De Stijl was art movement advocating pure abstraction and simplicity – form reduced to the rectangle and other geometric shapes, and color to the primary colors, along with black and white

Thesauri Poloniae - The Treasures of Poland

Instructions on how to fold your own envelopes (via MetaFilter)

photo by Justin Ouellette

unusual design gallery

A browsable exhibit of annotated images of prints from 1500 to the present representing human anatomy, both real and imagined

another the5k.org entry