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!
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North Korean Propaganda Posters
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Applying Mathematics to Escher’s Print Gallery
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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….
Will Draw Anything for $2
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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.
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2008 Penguin Design Award
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The 2008 Penguin Design Award results are out and all of the designs are outstanding.
Choice quotes from The Penguin Blog:
‘Good design costs no more than bad design’, said Penguin founder Sir Allen Lane.
Something in the way visual communication courses are structured and delivered has fundamentally changed. We’re seeing a certain type of student […] shrewder and far more professional.
Perhaps, like our award, the art student has come of age. I’m nevertheless recommending Goncharov’s Oblomov as one of the options on next year’s brief – another kind of hero for a different kind of student.
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MAD Magazine’s Fold-Ins
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I like how MAD Magazine’s ‘fold-ins’ were used to bring another dimension to the illustrations…
A classic feature of MAD magazine, and arguably the best thing in it, fold over the pages to reveal a hidden image and message by artist Al Jafee. We were left a bit confused by some of the more US-centric references, but it’s all very clever stuff indeed.
I love the interactive presentation method The New York Times has chosen to present these; very innovative.
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