May 12, 2011

• “Towel Sold Seperately”

  

  • spotted @ http://www.myconfinedspace.com

  PopDose, to celebrate the 10th (!) anniversary of the passing of the god Douglas Adams, has put together a two volume mixtape companion to The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Like a million other nerds in the known universe, I have an intense attachment to Douglas’ work, especially the Guide; it was literally the first (non-Choose Your Own Adventure) book I ever read of my own volition. It taught me actual life lessons and is at least partly responsible for any sense of humor I have. Seeing this mix made pull out my own raggedy paperbook copy, which alone has already brightened up a day full of gray clouds and the usual creeping, existential horror I find myself in, well, pretty much all the time. This mix includes the obvious Radiohead song (“Paranoid Android“) but really wins for me by providing for me the instrumental that served as the intro to the BBC’s classic TV adaption (shitty as it is, it’s worlds better than that Hollywood abortion from 2005). It’s by The Eagles, of all people.

  You can get it all here. (H/T Jason Josephes.)

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• Pattern Matters: Hand-Made Paper-Based 3D Infographics

  
  Pattern Matters [pattern-matters.com] is a graphic design project that consists of an elaborate collection of hand-made 3D infographics surrounding topics such as about Deaths Caused by HIV, Malaria, Suicide, Alcohol and Road Traffic, Energy of Worldwide of Oil, Gas and Coal, or the Frequency of Blood Groups in the Singapore Donor Population, next to alternative forms of calendars or typography.

  he main objective of this project is to inspire designers to look at pattern in every possible angles. Pattern Matters also aims to demonstrate that pattern is a crucial form of design element in graphic design which eventually evident that pattern is not merely a decorating tool.

  Via @JakeGraydon.

  See also:
  – Paper-Based Visualization
  – Data Visualization Survival Kit

  

  

• Sci-Fi IKEA Manuals

  

  

  Hilarious. I just wish they’d made one for E.T. [via Design Milk]

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