“Eighty feet long, 39 feet high, with 12-foot wheels, this is the ‘World’s Largest Automobile.’ It has been built for the Studebaker exhibit at the World’s Fair of 1934 in Chicago.Inside is a complete motion picture theatre seating 80 people where the story of the automobile is told, especially the story of the Studebaker automobile.”

austinkleon:

A Very Terry Gilliam Christmas: Season’s Greetings, 1968

Terry Gilliam on making the film:

I went down to the Tate and they’ve got a huge collection of Victorian Christmas cards so I went through the collection and photocopied things and started moving them around. So the style just developed out of that rather than any planning being involved. I never analysed the stuff, I just did it the quickest, easiest way. And I could use images I really loved.

Had no idea Gilliam was on Facebook! Merry Christmas to us.

Related: watch him explain how he does his animations

Too Good. (Terrible?)

From Life Magazine c.1946

Caught while thinking of my thesis and the huge modernist push of benevolent technology.

mancel:

Generative Art

Now that’s what I call Industrial Design. Thanks, BERG.

austinkleon:

Little Printer | BERG Cloud

Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.

This is too cool. Imagine a daily blackout poem delivered to your LittlePrinter. Hmmm….

You have got to be kidding me. Seriously?

More here and here. 

(Source: )

daleuncheckitout:

hug your local riot police officer

allabouttoledo:

“That is the substance of remembering - sense, sight, smell: the muscles with which we see and hear and feel - not mind, not thought: there is  no such thing as memory: the brain recalls just what the muscles grope for: no more, no less: and its resultant sum is usually incorrect and false and worthy only of the name of dream.”

Dude, we won’t have to do anything in the future. 

(Source: jwz.org)

And as to why.. because everything [most] people are projecting for the future is Pictures Under Glass. Because we’re really just hands and eyes, right? Nothing more.

We can sense so much with our bodies that’s haptic.. proprioception ftw!

(Source: hackerne.ws)

As soon as this [degree] thing is over. I’m going back to making.. 

Dunne and Raby on Core77. 

Hooray for non-commercial work on core!

[An easier to read version of the sculptural type. a = current design practices, and b = desired/future/possible practices]

Paola Antonelli on Critical Design and its effect on the practice. 

..thanks for helping me with my thesis, ms. antonelli. 

A collection of writings on visual communication for my graphic design friends. Essays by (mostly) academics on the role of graphic design, environmental awareness, critical design, and education. 

(Source: designobserver.com)