Archive for December, 2007

Great hand screen print posters of San Francisco neighborhoods. Too bad it’s sold out. More cities from Chicago design firm Ork.

A new API from Google lets you dynamically generate information charts. Along with pie charts, like this useful one, you can create line charts, bar charts, Venn diagrams and scatterplots. Learn how at the Googles.

Some great classic bikes from English manufacturer Pashley. I can’t decide between the Guv’nor or the Phantom.

New San Francisco skyline in Jell-o as seen from Alcatraz. See it big and see more of Hickock’s great Jell-o work.

Mark Wallinger has won the Turner Prize 2007 for his representation of Brian Haw’s antiwar protest in front of Britain’s Parliament Square. The jury commended its immediacy, visceral intensity and historic importance. The three other artists who were shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2007 were Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley and Mike Nelson. Read more coverage from the Guardian and the BBC.

Take a tour of the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s shiny new building on the Bowery, the only major thoroughfare in New York never to have had a single church built upon it.