Super Bowl named after Bouncy ball
Category: Education
Fact of the day:
The super bowl is, in fact, named after the super ball.
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Rubik’s cube tutorial
Category: Education
I wont lie to you, this video is boring unless you want to demystify the process of solving a rubik cube.
Adrian Shaugnessy
Category: Audio, Education, Graphic Design, Inspiration
Graphic design on the radio was a series of one-hour radio shows broadcast in the summer of 2007 on Resonance FM. The programs featured interviews with leading graphic designers who talked about their work and played music that inspired or influenced them. Graphics on the radio hows that possible?
One Show - Paul Rand Tribute Film (2007)
Category: Animation, Art, Education[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3XPeGL907E[/youtube]
Via Dominic Ayre.
Sounds of Saturn
Category: Education, Nerdy stuff
I am going to have to rank this as one of the most amazing things the internet has enabled me to experience. NASA has released some amazing recordings of sounds from the moons of Saturn. The strangest part is that these sounds are remarkably similar to the alien movies of the 50’s and 60’s. Thanks NASA!
Steven Johnson: The Ghost Map
Category: Education, Graphic Design, History, Illustration, Inspiration, Publications
Ever get the feeling as a graphic designer that what you’re doing is total bullshit and doesn’t contribute to society whatsoever? This book will help you feel a bit better.
TED: Hans Rosling
Category: Animation, Education, Graphic Design, History, Inspiration, Nerdy stuff
Hans will blow your mind with his display of statistics. Incredible.
Easter Island
Category: Education, History
This is just crazy. If everything you know about Easter Island involves the giant statues, you have to read into it a bit. Its basically a microcosm of whats happening in the western world today.
Blast from the past
Category: Animation, Education, History[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6CvI8qK40[/youtube]
Anyone remember this, I sure do.
Type-oh!
Category: Education, Typography
I can’t quite put my finger on what I like here. I think that it has something to do with the way the work is displayed with the captions all being held by the creators. It just looks like fun.