With this post we begin a series investigating the use of the typed text as an artistic medium. To be honest the first post in this series … [Read more...]
Adam Simpson’s Interpreting the Film Industry
Adam Simpson, (our beloved illustrator we already featured twice (here and here) at Socks), was commissioned to design artworks and movie posters for … [Read more...]
Tomnod: Scan Satellite Images from your Home
Tomnod, (after the Mongolian word for “Big eye"), is an interesting site in that it provides high resolution satellite maps and allows users from all … [Read more...]
The Convergence of Speed and Standstill: Christiane Baumgartner’s Prints
German artist Christiane Baumgartner employs a traditional printing technique: handmade woodcut, as the final part of a process which involves a … [Read more...]
New Ghost Stories: Take a Walk through the History of Images
"Nouvelles histoires de fantômes" ("New Ghost Stories") is an installation by renowned French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman and … [Read more...]
Gerard Taylor’s “Drawings for Lamps” 1982
Gerard Taylor is a world-renowned product designer, who began his career in the early 1980's as a collaborator in the office of … [Read more...]
The Funambulist Papers Vol.1 and a crowdfunding campaign for the Archipelago project
Our friend Léopold Lambert, author of the Funambulist blog and a writer who's often/quoted/here/at/Socks, just announced the publication of the first … [Read more...]
OASE Covers by Karel Martens
OASE is a journal for architecture, the content of which is mostly available online. In 1990 Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens took over the design … [Read more...]
A Collection of Italian Board Games (Mostly 19th to 20th Century)
Kindly offered by the artist and architect Maurizio Cilli through his facebook account and mostly based upon the Game of the Goose. This collection … [Read more...]
dOCUMENTA 13: Czechoslovak Radio 1968, by Tamás St. Turba
When Czechoslovakia was invaded by Soviet army in 1968, people resisted to the repression of political reforms through creative means. After people … [Read more...]
How to use infographics to tell a story
Soviet era propaganda done with infographics. Thanks Simone de Iacobis, Via: Ripetungi Rise in the national material welfare, … [Read more...]
Bringing the Atom into the American Homes: Erik Nitsche illustrations for General Dynamics
"Who is this guy doing the Bauhaus in New York?" - László Moholy-Nagy Art director, book designer, illustrator, typographer, graphic … [Read more...]
A new entry in the family
Introducing: socks-studio on tumblr. … [Read more...]
Early Days of the Advertising Business
Secrets, humiliations and legends in early days of the adverting industry's explosion, from an article of LIFE Magazine April 28th, 1958. As you may … [Read more...]
The Unplayable Score: Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz – John Stump
"Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz (from ‘A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich’)", by American John Stump is a parody of a composition, meant to be impossible to … [Read more...]
Roberto La Forgia “Il signore dei colori”
Roberto La Forgia is one of those artists whose indisputable talent needs some time to completely bloom. Knowing him since almost six years now we've … [Read more...]
Synapse Magazine: archiving the history of electronic music
From Things Magazine: "The complete archive of Synapse Magazine , a 1970s publication about the nascent electronic music scene". Download and … [Read more...]
The Future, according to Google Search Results
Google terrifying vision for our future. From Xkcd. Via Entschwindet & Vergeht. … [Read more...]
The State of the World Atlas, 1981
"The State of the World Atlas", Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal. A Pluto Press Project. Heinemann, London, 1981. Hardcover, 250 x 180mm, full … [Read more...]
Oscar Reutersvärd’s impossible constructions as gameplay (Don’t do this at work – 27)
Constructed on isometric projections, Echochrome is a Playstation title in which the player has to refer to perceived/optical geometry rather than … [Read more...]
Nø City Guide, a monumental work on Shanghai
Our friend Matthieu Duperrex, editor of Urbain-trop Urbain, just released his long awaited monography on the city of Shanghai. The Nø City Guide is … [Read more...]
Mapping frauds: Statistical detection of systematic election irregularities
Italian online newspaper Il Post publishes a report by a group of four Austrian researchers from Wien University, about an innovative statistical … [Read more...]
Weaponized Architecture by Léopold Lambert
Léopold Lambert's Weaponized Architecture, an "analysis of Israel’s architecture of colonization in the context of global trends in architecture and … [Read more...]
Findings on Elasticity, Lars Müller Publishers
208 pp / 200 x 270 mm / paperback / english publisher: Lars Müller Publishers author: Hester Aardse, Astrid van Baalen year: 2010 collaborator: … [Read more...]
