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The Underlying Structure of Letters: Luca Pacioli’s Alphabet from De Divina Proportione (1509)

October 27, 2019 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

Franciscan friar and mathematician Luca Pacioli wrote several books on mathematics and geometry. Among them, in 1497, Pacioli conceived De Divina … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture Tagged With: construction, proportion, renaissance, typography

OASE Covers by Karel Martens

April 18, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Media Tagged With: Architecture, magazines, typography, world weird web

Athanasius Kircher SJ – ‘Musurgia Universalis’, 1650

June 28, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Just yesterday we quoted an Athanasius Kircher's excerpt from his Musurgia Universalis (Rome: 1650). This seminal works of musicology in two volumes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, past futures, Sounds, Technology, typography, visions, world weird web

NASA’s 1976 identity guidelines

July 31, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Four pages of an original copy of NASA’s identity guidelines, from when they re-branded to the ‘worm’ logo, dated January … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, Technology, typography

Just in Time, or A Short History of Production, by Xavier Antin

February 6, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Four printers using differents technologies from 1880 to 1976. Each printer produces just one colour and is in chain with another one to get together … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, past futures, Technology, typography

Copy paste character

February 6, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Copypastecharacter.com, a website which does exactly what is supposed to. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: typography

Iliad, one page.

February 3, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

All the Homer's Iliad, poster version, one page. Does this mean anything? I don't know, they say: "Once upon a time we asked ourselves a peculiar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: industrial design, literature, typography

15 of the Most Iconic Newspaper Headlines Ever Printed

October 18, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The world is saturated with media and we are bombarded with headlines each and every day, but some are more memorable. We've got 15 of the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Culture, Media Tagged With: go public, past futures, people, social, Technology, typography, visions, world weird itself, world weird web

Arial vs Helvetica

October 2, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Media Tagged With: typography, world weird web

Graffiti Taxonomy: AEIOU – Paris, 2009 (Ni9e Factory)

September 26, 2009 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Ni9e Factory Graffiti Taxonomy: AEIOU - Paris, 2009 - All characters taken from tags photographed in Paris, April 2009. Official poster for Fondation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Territories Tagged With: go public, street, typography, world weird web

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