Born in Tokyo in 1931. After graduation from Tokyo University of Education, joined Ajinomoto in 1956. Went freelance in 1961. In addition to engaging in the full spectrum of graphic design, served as art director of the Japan World Exposition in Osaka (1970), International Ocean Exposition in Okinawa (1975), and International Exposition of Science and Technology in Tsukuba (1985). Also created the symbol for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka (1990). Pioneered new forms of communicative expression enabled by new technologies. (more over at Change Thought)

The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.

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Generator of color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages and any other color design. This is the brand new, rewritten version of the previous color generator. The application is moved to its own domain since this version. (Webdesigners)

Color Scheme Designer 3 is part of the Webdesigners tools series.

See also Adobe’s Küler and the Multicolor Search Lab

This is Frank Grießhammer’s personal collection of adapters. See more at his Adapter Museum online.

Frank Grießhammer was born in 1983, and has studied in Saarbrücken, Florence and The Hague. He graduated in 2008 in communications design from HBKsaar, with the thesis project Kiosk Fonts, a platform for student writing projects. (Linotype.com)

First spotted via Stüff Stuff.

I’f you follow the link, you won’t find this picture. According to my RSS feed reader, it was published last night. But it has been taken down since then. The picture comes with this comment:

I’m not able to fix our errors, but I can help with our error pages. — Peter Vidani, “Not able to help with real world problems.”

Peter Vidani is a designer for Tumblr. You’ll find a reblog of this “We’ll be back shortly” post over at his blog.

The japanese gallery of psychiatric art: Pyromijin® (pyridoxal), 1968, Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica

CineMasterpieces: Endless Summer, Bruce Brown, 1966 [click for hi-res]

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, frequently referred to as just Steinlen (November 10, 1859 – December 13, 1923), was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. (wikipedia)

You may know Steinlen for his famous Tournée du Chat Noir poster (1896).

Roger Ebert seems to think this documentary is authentic. Others are speculating that it could be a big artistic hoax, something similar to Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop documentary. But Casey Affleck says it’s all true (Time). Watch the trailers and visit the official website.

Library of Congres ― World War I Posters: “Are you fond of horses - U.S. Army - The Veterinary Corps instructs you in their care and treatment, riding and driving” by artist Horst Schreck, lithograph, color, 63 x 49 cm, published in 1919. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-9847.

Merrick Angle is a Freelance illustrator and designer based in France. Check his About page for a list of his clients. Visit his official website to buy his stuff.

About Tatsuro Kiuchi:

Tatsuro Kiuchi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1966. Originally a graduate in Biology at International Christian University in Tokyo, He made the change to an art career after graduating with distinction from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He started illustrating mostly children’s books with several publishers in the US and Japan and eventually branched out into editorial work in magazines and the illustration of book jackets and advertising commissions. His first picture book “The Lotus Seed” (text by Sherry Garland / Harcourt Brace & Company) has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide, and has been commissioned by such clients as Royal Mail to do Christmas Stamp Collection in 2006, and Starbucks for Worldwide Holiday Promotion “Pass the Cheer” in 2007. He now lives in Tokyo Japan. (Profile)

Visit his official English website, his blog and his Tumblr account. Some of his artwork can be bought online. I first came to know this artist via Coudal Partners.

In Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young, and Maxime Bilet—scientists, inventors, and accomplished cooks in their own right—have created a six-volume 2,400-page set that reveals science-inspired techniques for preparing food that ranges from the otherworldly to the sublime. The authors—and their 20-person team at The Cooking Lab—have achieved astounding new flavors and textures by using tools such as water baths, homogenizers, centrifuges, and ingredients such as hydrocolloids, emulsifiers, and enzymes. It is a work destined to reinvent cooking. (About)

Download a 20 pages preview of the book (PDF). Learn more about the authors (Myhrvold was the first chief technology officer at Microsoft : check his wikipedia page). The 6 volumes are all sold together. They can be pre-ordered on Amazon for a meer 500$

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