New Yorker: Four cover pages for Thanksgiving edition

Every year the magazine New Yorker provides us with one of their excellent cover pages for Thanksgiving. This year they have decided to top that. Chris Ware drew four different covers plus a comic page…

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Dance of the Flight Attendant

For Californian Artist Jen Wang the pre-flight safety routine “performed” by cabin staff is the most exciting about flying. It reminds her of maiko dance routines. Have a look at the beautiful sequence of drawings she has created to depict this.
See the drawings and more information at her web site.

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Worldprocessor: Data as Globes

Ingo Guenther’s “Worldprocessor” project that started in 1988 has created some of the most outstanding globes. Currently there are more then 300 different designs visualizing world statistical data as globes.
This project has been going for quite some time but the online catalog with hundreds of globes is still worth a look. We have selected a [...]

Outstanding Street Paintings

Outstanding temporary street painting
Photos: Max Borge via Flickr

Flickr: Cardboard paintings

We just came across a really great Flickr photo stream with cardboard paintings. Never thought you could use these old boxes for something. Now we know.Have a look at Flickr user señor_b’s photos and his outstanding cardboard stuff stream.

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Advertising: Honda Samurais

Advertising and arts not necessary exclude each other. Below there is another fine example of how the two go well together. The ads shown below are for Honda helmets. The style used is similar to ancient Japanese drawings from the age of Samurai.

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Design: Great animations online (1)

We had a look around for you to find some great animations and visualizations that anybody interested in design or art might like to watch. It’s quite impressive what’s out there on the web. There are many more but for this week lets start with the following five movies and sites.
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Douglas Levere: New York time travel

While already out since quite some time, its still great to have a look again. In his book New York changing Douglas Levere presents images taken by himself and pairs them with those of Berenice Abbott’s from the 1930s.

Levere used the same camera Abbott had used and returned to the same locations at the [...]

Street life: Cardboard house paintings from Japan

Japanese web site Cardboard-House-Painting has a set of galleries online with photographs of cardboard shelter paintings from people who lived on the street in Japan’s homeless city that was created around the Shinjuku Underground station’s in the mid-1990s.

…Hundreds of cardboard houses grew up in the underground passageways of the west exit. On each of [...]

Tate Modern: 30mph drainpipe slide opened

Who says that museums can’t be fun should visit Tate Modern in London during the next 6 months.
It’s not that often that one expects screaming sounds to be heard in museum halls. With its latest installation called Test Site from German artist Carsten Hoeller, this might be seen as acceptable reactions by visitors. The five [...]