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Observed #13: 7 November 2014

In this week's edition, we have craft, coffee, clowns, cities, and a non-alliterative 90s software flashback.

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tags: yasuo ozakaki, colossal, craft, woodturning, dolls, kokeshi, japanese, clowns, france, mime, hell's grannies, interactive, windows 93, zombectro, jankenpopp, rian van der merwe, elezea, coffee, urbanisation, data visualisation, lincoln institute of land policy, atlas of urban expansion, population, johannesburg, htxt
categories: Video, Reading, Big data, Art
Friday 11.07.14
Posted by Jonno Cohen
 

Observed #11: 22 September 2014

A glimpse of the business of design with ways to screw up a client presentation and client feedback for God, then a scientific ABC, algorithms in action, and a beautiful poem about dying.

 

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tags: feedback, slate, diagrams, clients, mike lacher, science, mcsweeney's, mike monteiro, algomation, dying, new yorker, khyati trehan, data visualisation, poetry, history, archimedes, tesla, edison, programming, comic sans, clive james, breakthroughs, client presentations, poem, japanese maple
categories: Reading, Big data, Design, Illustration, Typography
Monday 09.22.14
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Observed #9: 8 September 2014

Kung Fu Fighting, watercolour crystals, data visualisations of ancient texts and a geometric pattern font, right here in this edition.

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tags: Asia, China, kung fu fighting, NPR, riff, song, stereotype, crystals, mineral admiration, karina eibatova, watercolour, birds, playing cards, sefaria, jewish, talmud, tanach, bible, data visualisation, ildikó valicsek, patterns, modular, geometric
categories: Audio, Art, Big data, Design
Monday 09.08.14
Posted by Jonno Cohen