5 posts tagged with history
Artist, designer and educator Elif Ayiter presents The History of Visual Communication – a website that focuses on the history of the translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual or word based into a visual format, i.e. Visual Communication.
I received this wonderfully rugged aerogramme from a dear friend doing research work in India. Love the feeling of these kinds of things, where the material or packaging itself tells a story, giving a whole new depth of the actual message. The fact of the message being written on the inside of the envelope gives that feeling a boost.
Thank you Sofia!
New York Times tells an interesting story about Clingstone – an unusual, 103-year-old mansion built by a Philadelphian named J.S. Lovering Wharton, on a rock in the waters of Rhode Island.
The United States Library of Congress has partnered with the immensely popular flickr photo sharing site. The goal is to increase the profile of their archive of over 14 million prints, photos and other visual materials (and to demonstrate that government collections can be surprisingly cool).
They’re kicking things off by posting around 3,000 images from several of their most popular collections: News in the 1910s and the 1930s-40s in Color.
Via Retrothing
Here are the photos: http://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/