Archive for December, 2007

Ork Posters

December 13th, 2007 by Jeff | 0

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

Google Charts

December 11th, 2007 by Jeff | 0

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.

Pashley

December 10th, 2007 by Jeff | 0

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

Liz Hickok’s New Skyline

December 7th, 2007 by Jeff | 0

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

December 4th, 2007 by Jeff | 0

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.

New Museum

December 1st, 2007 by Jeff | 0

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.