Historical city maps by Matthew Picton. http://matthewpicton.com
Below, Paris 1749. Layered information using Duralar film, paint and pins.
London 1666. Made from book covers of “The Plague Years” by Daniel Defoe.
Damion Hurst constructed 17 city maps using knife blades, razor blades, fish hooks and othersharp metal items for his “Black Scalpel Cityscapes” exhibition. https://bit.ly/2Ee6jvl
Below, an area of Rio de Janeiro.
Lisa uses a technique known as quilling which dates back to the Renaissance. She rolls and shapes narrow strips of Japanese mulberry paper to create these cross-sections of the human body. See more here: https://bit.ly/2UVQ4si
Above, “Midsagittal Female.” Below, “Male Torso.”
“Shoulders” (detail).
“Coronal Man.”
Detail.
“Female Torso.”
“Abdomen” (detail).
“Transverse Head-Tongue” (detail).
“Head and Torso” (detail).
An earlier post: Sabeena Karnik uses the art of quilling to make letterforms. https://wp.me/p7LiLW-2Dl
I’ve posted before about the simple principle of using organization to reduce chaos and to reveal information.
Here are some more examples of the art of arrangement.
Personal favorites (above) Photographer Simon Puschmann shows the things that mean the most to him.
Simon’s portfolio: https://bit.ly/2N1KAJB
Patrol car (below) An example from the New Zealand Response Teams’ “Flatpack Challenge.”
Every Thing We Touch Paula Zuccotti documented all the everyday objects that various people had touched over a period of 24 hours. https://amzn.to/2I5fJgH
Below: Cowboy, Tuscon.
Starting in the late 1950s and carrying on for decades, space exploration was a big influence on design. This followed on from, and overlapped, the Atomic Age, which had a similar kind of golden-future impact. Above, Seattle’s Space Needle, built in 1962 for the 21st Century Exposition, which is also known as the Seattle World’s Fair. ( A post about the Atomic Age: https://wp.me/s7LiLW-atomic )
The 1964/65 New York World’s Fair sits firmly during the heyday of the style. This is an opportunity to once again show the fantastic Unisphere. It’s still there. Go and see it if you can. (Mega-globes post: https://wp.me/p7LiLW-3D)
Photograph by Anthony Conti
“The Jetsons” captured the Space Age popular aesthetic. The original series ran from September 1962 to March 1963.
The KenAnn Building in Fort Lauderdale was built in 1964. Online sources say that it was inspired by “The Jetsons.”
Image: Google Street View
NASA logo (1959).
The iconic Las Vegas sign (1959).
Photograph by Thomas Wolfe
Capitol Records Building, Los Angeles (1956). The light on the top of the spire blinks “Hollywood” in morse code.
Disney’s Tomorrowland opened in 1955. At the entrance was the World Clock.
And Disney’s 2015 film of the same name was, naturally, an ode to the Space Age.
The architectural style know as “Googie” captures the futuristic atomic/space theme, and for a few decades was widely used in the United States for coffee shops, motels and gas stations. This aesthetic later became a component of the Mid-century modern style that is so popular today. The term came from a Los Angeles coffee shop called “Googies.”
The Union 76 gas station in Beverly Hills (1965) is considered to be one of the best examples of Googie architecture.
The Cinerama Dome in Hollywood opened in 1963, using a geodesic dome design developed by Buckminster Fuller.
