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Irena Gajic’s 100 Houses

August 28, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

We already featured Irena, a Belgrade-based artist, and architect, some time ago for a series ofillustrations featured in architecture … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: houses, illustrations, unconscious

William Heath Robinson’s Wacky Inventions

November 7, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was a victorian cartoonist best known for drawing overly complicated mechanisms able to achieve only simple … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: comics, illustrations, rube goldberg machines

A Visual Compendium of the Real World: Illustrations by Takeda Yoshifumi

August 21, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Takeda Yoshifumi is a Japanese illustrator and painter currently base in Tokyo. His work consists mostly of small, detailed illustrations with a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: drawings, illustrations, ink, pencil

S.Tigerman and G.L. Crabtree: The Formal Generators of Structure, 1975

July 2, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

"The Formal Generators of Structure" is a sequence of drawings which explore orthogonal forms. The research starts from the square and the cross, two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, form of form, illustrations, information graphics, world weird web

Inside Outside: Illustrations by Michael Kirkham

August 9, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Michael Kirkham is an illustrator living in Edinburgh and working internationally. In many of his works he shows a specific interest in the built … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: illustrations

Storytelling with Forms and Patterns: Prints and Textiles by Hannah Waldron

August 4, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Hannah Waldron is a British print and textile multi-disciplinary artist. Her works display an interesting array of patterns, architectural forms, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: fabrics, illustrations, textile

Andrew DeGraff’s Unfinished Construction Sites

April 15, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 1 Comment

Illustrator and painter Andrew DeGraff is working on a series of sketches of unfinished construction sites with a surreal twist. The axonometric … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Representation: Axonometric projection Tagged With: Black and White, drawings, illustrations, sketches

Scissors Series by Chiara Dattola

December 16, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Personal sorrow gave our dear friend Chiara Dattola the strength to produce her more intense drawings so far. "I like scissors. Lately I've started … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Art, illustrations, psychogeographies, world weird web

Miniatura (Searching Analogous Relations in São Paulo’s Incongruous Reality)

April 7, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Bruna Canepa is an illustrator, architect, writer for the music blog Suppaduppa and co-founder of Miniatura, a project she created with architect and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Territories Tagged With: collages, drawings, illustrations, sao paulo

Light Prop for an Electric Stage by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1929-1930)

January 18, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 4 Comments

 László Moholy - Nagy - collage, ink and watercolour on paper "The Light Prop for an Electric Stage", also known as "the Light Space Modulator", … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, bauhaus, drawing, electronic arts, illustrations, Moholy-Nagy, sound, visions

Colourful Interior Design for the Sonneveld House (Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, 1929-1933)

December 23, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  After the 1929 stock market crash, no big architectural commission was in sight for Dutch architects Brinkman and Van der Vlugt. Thus the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, world weird web

E.L. Youmans’s “Chemical Atlas: Or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects” (1854)

December 16, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  "Every experienced teacher understands the necessity of making the acquisition of the elementary and foundation principles upon which a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, world weird web

A Revolution in Stage Design: Drawings and Productions of Adolphe Appia

December 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 7 Comments

  Adolphe Appia, (1862-1928) was a Swiss architect, stage designer and theorist of stage lighting and décor. His theories and realized works … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, Art-2, form of form, illustrations, world weird web

The World Explained by Kappa Senoo

December 9, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  Kappa Senoo (1930) is a Japanese graphic designer, a successfull set designer, essayist and novelist. A 1997 autobiographical book depicting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, Japan

Flying Boats /2 – Latécoère 521 “Lieutenant de Vasseau Paris”

November 30, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

  The interwar period must have been very exciting for an aviation enthusiast. The aircraft industry developed so rapidly that only twenty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: illustrations, Technology

“Must it Stay that Way?” Critical Posters by Gunter Rambow (1971)

November 29, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In 1971, German graphic designer and photographer Gunter Rambow produced a series of posters tackling the failing realm of urban planning and building … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, Germany, illustrations, politics

Drawing the Naked City: Shohei Manabe

November 11, 2013 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

What is striking in the precise drawings of the japanese comic artist Manabe Shohei is their ability to immediately express the feeling of a street or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, comics, illustrations, japanism, street

Bruno Taut: The City Crown (1919)

September 28, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

Second part of our series of posts on Bruno Taut, after "Bruno Taut: The Earth is a Good Dwelling (1919)" This is a translated version of part of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Culture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, information graphics, past futures, people, politics, psychogeographies, social, urban chronicles, world weird web

“The true story of Mr Like”, By Nanni and Colella – Crowdfunding Campaign

September 15, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

As you may have / already / noticed, we particularly like the work of Italian author, illustrator and comic artist Giacomo Nanni, namely his studies … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: animations, comics, illustrations, satire, world weird web

Peter Behrens’s Drawings (1922-29)

September 7, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Considered for a long time eclectic and contradictory, Peter Behrens's stylistic research shows, conversely, a rigourous consistency, as it has been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, past futures, politics, urban chronicles, world weird web

Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)

August 13, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 60 Comments

“Everything is architecture“, Hans Hollein announced in the 1968 (1/2) edition of the “Bau“ journal. As correctly explained by Ethel Baraona, he was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, form of form, illustrations, literature, magazines, past futures, people, photography, psychogeographies, review, satire, social, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

The Creation of the World According to Moses by Wilhelm & Jan Goeree, 1690

July 25, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

(Originally titled: De Schepping der Wereldt Volgens de Beschryving van Mozes) Via: Willigula and Invisible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: form of form, illustrations, past futures, psychogeographies, world weird web

Ettore Sottsass jr., Mobile and Flexible Environment Module, 1972

June 10, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

In 1972 Ettore Sottssas Jr. imagines a domestic environment composed of a networked system of grey plastic containers,  equipped with sliding wheels … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, illustrations, industrial design, magazines, past futures, people, politics, psychogeographies, social, Technology, urban chronicles, world weird web

The Diesel Era Lithographs of Louis Lozowick (1920’s to 1940’s)

April 27, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

The Diesel era immortalized in the powerful lithographs of Louis Lozowick (December 10, 1892 – September 9, 1973). Born in the Russian Empire, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology, Territories Tagged With: Architecture, Art, illustrations, magazines, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, social, street, Technology, urban chronicles, world weird web

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