Thanks mostly to a Renaissance aesthetic notion, we’ve come to imagine ancient Greece and Rome as places of stark beauty—pure white marble temples filled with pale statues. Though it’s not a surprise to archaeologists and art historians, many of us more pedestrian folk can be stunned to learn that the clean, dignified marble statues and edifices of ancient Greece were …
The Origins of ABC
The I Love Typography blog has a great overview of the origins of the Latin alphabet. Check it out!
Analyze This.
The New York Times ran a cartoon by Ward Sutton last week called “Reading Tea Leaves and Campaign Logos.” If you’ve never seen the prognostication possible from a simple campaign logo, give it a look. And the next time I tell you that writing a paper in Comic Sans can reflect badly on you or dilute your message, perhaps you …
Are You Going To Eat That?
Ran across this photo set today: Underground menu at L’Enclume. If you’ve never seen molecular gastronomy up-close and personal before, here’s your chance—intimate photos of a 24-course meal that’s a blend of science, art, and food. That picture to the left there, for instance, is of a dish labeled “Whim 03”: The white block was an impossibly light, and yet completely …
Running the Numbers
Wow. Photographer Chris Jordan has some sample images from his new exhibition online. He writes: This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My …