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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Designer Holiday Lights by Ilmex

Posted on by Alex Dent

Although it’s not officially winter yet (December 22, for those who are curious), we can all agree that it gets dark too early in the winter (apologies to any nocturnal species reading.) The sun doesn’t rise as high in the sky durring the winter months, and as low as the sun rises, it doesn’t stay around as long. [...]

Space Suit of the Week

Posted on by Alana Zimmer

Bon Voyage. Good luck. See ya later. Godspeed. A spacesuit has 27 layers. Like the garments they bear, Adam Devarney’s travelers navigate through a layered patchwork of imagined narratives. Devarney’s pieces were first included in a 2010 exhibition entitled Godspeed, collaged portraits pieced together in a dream-like narrative of hallowed ghosts of aviators past, suited up for a [...]

Finding your Twin – Kepler-22b

Posted on by Alec Rojas

After years of waiting, nothing came. So instead of waiting we found a planet. Kepler-22b is NASA’s latest discovery. The incredibly awesome Kepler telescope has been searching for earth-like planets for years now. This is the first instance in our history that we have found a planet similar to our own. A twin if you [...]

‘Pin Ups’ by Julianna Brion

Posted on by Philip Kennedy

I love these drawings of pin-ups by the Baltimore-based illustrator Julianna Brion. The simple line and bright colors really work well together and they’re only a taste of some of the amazing things she has been creating over the last few years. Originally from Brooklyn, Julianna moved to Baltimore to study illustration and design at [...]

The sleeker, simpler new Twitter

Posted on by Bobby Solomon

Yesterday morning, Twitter unveiled a totally redesigned UI for the iPhone and Android which in turn unlocked a new UI for the web. I had no idea that Twitter was gearing up for any kind of redesign, so I was pretty excited to see what they had done. In my opinion, they’ve completely upped their [...]

‘Numbnuts’ by Nacho Picasso

Posted on by Alec Rojas

In a year where mainstream rap has degenerated to rhyming the same word with the same word with the same word with the same word (and maybe with “rozay,” why spell it correctly), it seems that the guys with the wildest rhymes and beats are all in Seattle. With one of the best names in [...]