Web design blog wellmedicated has uncovered some great Polish film posters.
These conceptual masterpieces put the original American posters to shame every time; they are truly beautiful works of art. Trimming this list down to a mere 50 posters that I absolutely love was surprisingly difficult.
I find it difficult to choose stand-out candidates from this list: they’re all spectacular.
Jason then pointed me towards this great collection of Russian movie posters. Equally as fascinating they remind me of fairy tale illustrations. I’m enjoying trying to guess what film each poster represents (highlights include The Matrix, War of the Worlds, and Lord of the Rings).
These North Korean Propaganda Posters are fascinating. I’ve always loved the design of propaganda posters and this book compiles a great selection from DPRK.
Let’s extensively raise goats in all families!
via Kottke
Prentententoonstelling—or Print Gallery—is a recursive M. C. Escher drawing. For Mathematics Awareness Month 2003, Escher and the Droste Effect delves into the mathematics behind one of Escher’s more intriguing pieces. The following from the published article.
[Prentententoonstelling] shows a young man standing in an exhibition gallery, viewing a print of a Mediterranean seaport. As his eyes follow the quayside buildings shown on the print from left to right and then down, he discovers among them the very same gallery in which he is standing. A circular white patch in the middle of the lithograph contains Escher’s monogram and signature.
What is the mathematics behind Prentententoonstelling? Is there a more satisfactory way of filling in the central white hole? We shall see that the lithograph can be viewed as drawn on a certain elliptic
curve over the field of complex numbers and deduce that an idealized version of the picture repeats itself in the middle. More precisely, it contains a copy of itself, rotated clockwise by 157.6255960832… degrees and scaled down by a factor of 22.5836845286….
Yirmumah will draw you anything—in a comic book style—for just $2.
Why am I doing this? Number one, it’s fun. Number two, it’s practice to make me faster and keep me sharp drawing various things I wouldn’t have thought to draw. […] Now the 2 dollar thing just seems very funny to me for some reason. Watch the monkey draw you something for 2 dollars. I’d probably do it even cheaper.
via Seth Godin