Cornell has opened up their archive of public domain works, removing restrictions on reproduction and use of the works. On top of that, they have released more than seventy thousand works to the internet archive.
Category: links
3D Geometry
Scanned images of 3D geometry diagrams from Richard at Ace Jet 170. Now I just need to find a pair of glasses so I can see them properly.
Beck and Paris
Ken Garland’s lectures at Reading were some of my favourites during the time I spent there, particularly his passion for Harry Beck and the London Underground. I don’t really remember him mentioning Beck’s connection to the Paris Metro, probably because there was only limited class time.
Ad archive
The Duke Library has a great collection of advertisements spanning from 1911 to 1955. It’s where I found a good chunk of the material used in the last design of the site.
Influencing web design
Jason Santa Maria’s lecture about The Influence of Print Design on the web. This is kind of where I was headed with my master’s thesis about the changing online newspaper, but I felt the time crunch and didn’t really do it properly.
By beard weight alone
Poets ranked by their beard weight. The gravity of a poet’s beard was determined using the lost art of pogonomancy, or divination by beard. I don’t have to explain how awesome this is.
Wu-Tang covers redesigned
Logan Walters has reimagined Wu-Tang’s album covers in the style of Blue Note Records. All of the covers are available in his flickr stream.
Rare books online
The Rare Book Room allows you to read old manuscripts in their original form, including works by Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin and Galileo.
Designing the Montreal Olympic logo
Scans of an article from Design magazine on the creation of the 1976 Olympic logo for Montreal. I knew that the logo’s symbolism was multi-faceted, but never realized quite how structured and grid-based the design was.
Luxury and socialism in Europe
Two articles by Americans who are finding that European socialism isn’t all that bad. In Going Dutch, Russell Shorto is initially perplexed by an odd dichotomy of welfare state and one of the world’s first free market economies, but has come to appreciate it. Trevor Corson examines the Finnish luxury of time and solace over that of material objects.