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The Donut Project
When we grew tired of sending email after email of inspirational finds back and forth, we thought there had to be an easier way to share things with our friends. The Donut Project was created as a place for us to share inspirational, cool, hilarious, unconventional and interesting links with each other. Shortly thereafter, The Donut Project was released to the masses – with the mentality that if we found these links interesting, chances are that other people would too.
Why’d we call it The Donut Project? Each one of us graduated from the Kent State University’s Visual Communication Design program, where the first project consists of inking, by hand, a precise 8 inch square with hairlines bisecting it horizontally, vertically and diagonally, with a thick donut shaped circle in the middle of the square. This iconically Swiss design was the first of many tests of precision, craft and sanity. Its reputation for weeding out students was legendary due to the high precision and harsh grading. Because of the thick circle in the middle and lack of an actual name, the project was nicknamed ‘The Donut Project.’ Mention this project to most Kent grads, and usually you’ll hear a moan, followed by “I got a C-minus on that stupid thing.” It bonds us all and we felt it was the perfect thing to name this site after.
On The Donut Project, we will post anything that inspires us, makes us laugh, makes us think or pisses us off. Design is not only about literal design, and this site won’t be either. If we like it, whatever it may be, it’ll be here. Stick around, subscribe to the RSS feed, see the current contributors and take a second to say hello or send us something worth sharing.
We Are Chopchop
We Are Chopchop is a small community of designers, motiongraphers, video- and media artists working, exploring and playing in the field of visual culture production.
Andreas Fischer is a designer / artist working with moving images, generative design and typography. He is a graduate of the Berlin University of the Arts. He has worked as a freelance designer for Art + Com AG, making design and concepts for clients like BMW, Volkswagen, and Wall AG among others. Florian Lamm is a Leipzig based graphic designer with focus on bookdesign and research. He is studying at the Academy of visual Arts Leipzig. Akitoshi Mizutani is a designer / artist working with
exhibition design, narrative/media architecture and 3D. He holds the German Diplom degree (equivalent to a Master´s) in exhibition design from the Berlin University of the Arts.
500 Pencils — 500 Pencils
What would one color be without 499 others?
Introducing 500 Colored Pencils: the only set in the world that matches the span and wonder of human creativity.
Express whatever you dream, with beautiful visual precision.
Each pencil is its own story. A unique hue with an inventive name to inspire the far corners of your creativity.
Together, the colors suggest infinite possibilities.
Pocket Calculator's Vintage Boombox and Ghetto Blaster Museum
Precisely when the term was coined we're not sure. Department stores such as Sears and K-Mart began used it in their marketing as early as 1983. Merriam-Webster pins it at 1981, and defines the boom box as "a large portable radio and often tape player with two attached speakers". Initially, it became identified with a certain group of society, hence adopting epithetic nicknames, like ghetto blaster, and jam box. But as the masses began to embrace this assemblage of electronics gadgets as an indespensible form of portable entertainment, it became an icon of popular culture, and we've yet to let go. Your hosts of Pocket Calculator Show endeavor here to provide a retrospective, including as many photos, facts and accounts as we can provide, during your tour of the Vintage Boombox Museum.
Atlas Obscura | Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world
Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist. If you're looking for miniature cities, glass flowers, books bound in human skin, gigantic flaming holes in the ground, phallological museums, bone churches, balancing pagodas, or homes built entirely out of paper, the Atlas Obscura is where you'll find them.
The Atlas Obscura depends on our community of far-flung explorers to find and report back about the world's wonders and curiosities. If you have been to, know of, or have heard about a place that belongs in the Atlas Obscura, we want you to tell us about it. Anyone and everyone is welcome and encouraged to nominate places for inclusion, and to edit content already in the Atlas.
Iran: The Rooftop Project | MightierThan.com
One of the most compelling elements of the continued uprising in Iran has been when each night under the cover of darkness Iranians chant themselves hoarse from the rooftops, balconies, and windows of their homes. This is done to express resolve, hope, frustration, but probably more than anything else – to provide a way for people to be together, in spirit and in their cause. As long as their voices echo through each night, Iran is not yet free. It is the soundtrack of revolution.
This is meant to be the most complete possible collection of recordings of nighttime protest in Iran since the beginning of the uprising. Its goal is to locate and profile at least one video for each night primarily focusing on the nightly chanting of Allah-o-Akbar from the rooftops whenever that footage is available. Some of these videos have not been widely seen until now. I will continue to update this post with new videos as they become available, please encourage people in Iran to try to record these evening chants of Allah-o-Akbar so that the world can continue to see and hear them every day. There are several days for which I was unable to find a video – please help me find them! – you can email me at itsmightier@gmail.com – I can post the videos anonymously under my YouTube account if needed. The permalink for this post will be http://mightierthan.com/rooftop
This project is dedicated to “Oldouz84″
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