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ironic sans has a very enjoyable quiz: 20 logos that use Helvetica redone in Arial. So you can test wether you can tell the two fonts apart or you can just ponder over the influence of typography. I found it very instructive – but TOYOTA was a particularly hard one (I failed there).

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graphics looking as from cellular automata (game of life?) and fluids in a psychadelic 1970 animation by Schwartz and Knowlton.
via dataisnoture

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For the upcoming weekend a youtube link to a very dark but brilliantly made animation called “Fallen Art” from 2004 by Tomasz Bagiński

-> youtube link

via slupczynski-vs-mickiewicz

Last weakend we were doing a visit to the Deutsche Museum.

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The frequent randform visitor knows that randforms main issue is not “popularizing science“.

Although we eventually may post an article which could be finally considered as “popular science” (last not least because we like to talk about science in a rather easy understandable way) we are mainly interested in discussing the communicational and perceptional manifestations of science. The visual ways of communication are here of special importance and thus we are especially proud that we were included in a carefully and thoughtfully edited book about blogs that are related to graphic design.

From the book cover:

Blog, weblog, logbook – these are words of our time. Although blogs have existed since the end of the 1990’s, they flourished only in recent years. Weblogs gained its popularity as a medium to tell stories and develop thoughts through dialogue.

With advancement of the Internet technology, creating and publishing a blog is as simple as it is to check your emails. What makes the difference is therefore, outstanding content. Blogs, Mad about design is a collection of the most interesting and exiting blogs that are related to graphic design.

Blogs, Mad about design
Mao Mao publications (2009) (blog)
ISBN 978-981-245-715-8

The text about randform in the book:

A blog that is dedicated to investigating the intersection between mathematics, physics, art and design. This includes visualizations and mathematical representations in terms of images, symbols processes, etc. as well as the general fundamentals of perceptive/cognitive thought, including topics that range from computers capable of seeing, to the architecture of information and interactive design.

The area of the above squares shall visualize a certain amount of money.

A little puzzle for randform visitors:

The upper outer square visualizes an amount which is … times bigger as the amount of the upper inner square.

The lower outer square visualizes an amount which is … times bigger as the amount of the lower inner square.

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Once again ironic sans posts an excellent idea: The outlet wall. Real solutions for real problems. Definitely the way to go. Unfortunately german wall outlets are less flat (more secure, though) so they wouldn’t make such a nice wall after all.