A Dutch journalist reminds Angela Merkel that her new minister of finance, Wolfgang Schäuble, has been taking bribes from a arm manufacturer.
FUMF is where Federico Urdaneta and Maja Flink meet to make films. It's a creative house based in East London, with strong ties to Sweden and Colombia.
Average % of infected who die
David McCandless is a London-based author, writer and designer. His blog is called Information Is Beautiful.
All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments.
Ben Fry, the director of Seed Visualization and its Phyllotaxis Lab, a design laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts is experimenting with visualization of complex data.
Cigarette Holder Built For Two, 1955
The Life Magazine presents the 30 dumb inventions. Via todayandtomorrow.
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, scientific illustrator and science artist, was born in 1944 in Zurich, Switzerland. For 25 years she worked as a scientific illustrator for the scientific department of the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich. Since the catastrophe of Chernobyl in 1986, she has collected, studied and painted morphologically disturbed insects, which she finds in the fallout areas of Chernobyl as well as near nuclear installations.
Via the ever great but does it float.
The exhibition 'Himalaya – Changing Landscapes' directed by Etter Studio is coming to Switzerland's capital this Sunday. For more information please visit:
www.etterstudio.com/archive/himalaya/bern
Another stunning website by my digital hero Yugo Nakamura for interior designer Wonderwall: www.wonder-wall.com
This is pretty amazing – for 1986 – and reminds strongly of Please Look Around You, or the other way around.
The Switzerland based artists Zimoun and Pe Lang did a few wonderful pieces experimenting with sound waves.
Via today and tomorrow
This is a new campaign by the Swiss right wing party trying to motivate the Swiss citizen to vote for a law denying the construction of minarets. Cheap superficial campaign, shame on them and who ever is responsible for this.
Yet another case of copy-paste. On the left a work called Meet Feet (2001) by US Margot Knight and on the right a still of the Nike commercial (ca. 2008) by Australia's Giuseppe Demaio.
Cosmic rocker Marc Bolan, September 16, 1977.
An exhibition of photographs by Dean Rogers opens this weekend at the Wapping Project in London, depicting the locations where nine of our cultural heroes were killed in car crashes and what they must have seen in their very last seconds.
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