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hello, i'm becca. i like architecture, books, maps, wine, mid-century design, seasons, concrete, language, people-watching, trees, bbc 6 music, shadows, gin, cheese, the sea, and puns. and other stuff too.
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the trailer for baz luhrmann’s adaptation of the great gatsby. excited.
(Source: youtu.be)
stunning black and white images of shanghai, from megalopolis:shanghai by martin stavars.
(Source: abduzeedo.com)
stahlhof belval ouest, an abandoned steel mill in luxembourg, converted into a public park by alles wird gut architektur. really nice integration of old and new and marriage of contrasting materials.
(Source: thisiscolossal.com)
le corbusier’s baghdad gymnasium, designed in 1957, but not realised until 1982, and currently seeking financial aid for preservation.
as a vague follow-on from my recent post about the typography dating game, here’s one in a slightly more vicious vein from cross-media design agency to the point.
i shot the serif lines up single letters like a coconut shy and gives you a rifle to shoot all the serif fonts. it lets you start at junior, midlle-weight or senior levels, and you work your way to being promoted all the way up to director, competing against tighter time-limits. a simple yet brilliant idea, well-executed, and topped of with a stroke of genius title. a perfect time-waster. play here!
the google earth alphabet.
thomas de bruin has collated the entire alphabet, in upper and lower case, as well as a full set of numbers and punctuation, using only locations in his native netherlands, as seen through google earth.
