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The iCloud logo and the golden ratio | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Apples commitment to thoughtful design is legendary, and heres another example. The iCloud logo uses the golden ratio.
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Just Google It: How Search Engines Stunt College Students Research Skills – Education – GOOD
A two-year study by the Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic Libraries Project concludes that students are so used to conducting simple searches on Google that they have a hard time doing more sophisticated research either online or in the library.
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Apple’s storefront design symmetry – TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Apple’s storefront design symmetry – TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
Apple’s newly constructed 4th Street Store in Berkeley, California which is constructed to be symmetrical and aligned. The 76 centimeter stone tiles within the store are the focal point of this design. Both the store’s windows panels and the sidewalk tiles outside the store are a multiple of this 76 cm dimension. It’s a subtle design element that is pleasing to the eyes and may help draw traffic into the new retail store.
The History Blog » Blog Archive » Kickstart the search for lost da Vinci mural
The History Blog » Blog Archive » Kickstart the search for lost da Vinci mural.
Kickstart the search for lost da Vinci mural
In 1504, the Gonfalionere of Justice, leader of the Florentine Republic, Piero Soderini commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to decorate a wall in the newly built Hall of Five Hundred, the room where Florence’s Great Council met in the Palazzo Vecchio.
Rubens copy of Leonardo
Christian Iconography
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Pablo Delgado’s miniature street art and street scenes in London
Street artist Pablo Delgado continues to produce more and more tiny street art scenes across London. Over the past few weeks Street Art London has been scouring the streets for as many as we could find. In this latest collection, we also present some of his earlier pieces that we missed the first time round. Some of these now have a lovely weathered look which makes them seem even more at home on the street. This time we have included some clues as to location to help you hunt them down yourselves…
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The Antics Roadshow – The Antics Roadshow – Channel 4
An hour-long special made by Banksy charting the history of behaving badly in public, from anarchists and activists to attention seeking eccentrics.
Contributors include Michael Fagan talking about breaking into the Queen’s bedroom: ‘I looked into her eyes, they were dark’; and Noel Godin, who pioneered attacking celebrities with custard pies: ‘Instead of a bullet I give them a cake’.
Explaining his reasoning behind the show, Banksy said: ‘Basically I just thought it was a good name for a TV programme and I’ve been working back from there’.