“F” from “Alphabet Book 1” Mixed media quilt, 6” x 4”
“Hebesphenomegacorona,” page 24 of “Polygons and Polyhedra,” Set 4. 6” x 4”, Mixed media quilt.
“Pentagon,” page 6 of “Polygons and Polyhedra,” Set 4. 6.25” x 4.75”, Mixed media quilt.
“L” from “Alphabet Book 1” Mixed media quilt, 6” x 4”
Kevin Steele has created The Movable Book of Letterforms
(Source: goodtypography, via kramenstarb)
Cover863 on Flickr.
The cover of “Polygons and Polyhedra, Set 5. Multi-media quilt. 6” x 4”
Brains 2005 on Flickr.
2005 sketchbook drawing (with water damage). I was reminded of this by this story posted on twitter by @netw3rk (frankly that story is more ridiculous than my drawing. Brain transplants within 7 years? Right.) These are human brains in cases that can control robot bodies off site. The advantage of this is that the robot bodies don’t contain the most sensitive portion of the human body. Signal delay means that the robot could only stay local, but the brain can always be stuck in a suitcase for travel. Provided, of course, you can get it through customs.
The visual linguistics of a comic book page
Inside Science recently wrote about the study by UCSD’s Neil Cohn, Navigating Comics, which looks at the underlying structure of the comics language:People who read the English written word scan text from left to right. Once our eyes hit the end of the page, we stop. Then ding!, like an old-time typewriter, our eyes shift downward and snap back to the left to start reading the next line. This is known as a “Z-path,” as our eyes whip about like the end of Zorro’s sword.
But that linear track gets derailed in comics with complex layouts and Cohn wanted to know if experienced readers had strategies to follow along.
Cohn rustled up 145 participants at the 2004 Comic-Con International, a comic book convention held in San Diego. Participants had varying experience with reading comics, ranging from “never” to “often.”
Each participant was given a booklet containing 12 pages of blank panels. Each page was independent of the rest and used different design techniques.
