Taste for Makers →
Paul Graham (b 1964) – an essayist, programmer, and investor – on good design: “It’s surprising how much different fields’ ideas of beauty have in common. The same principles of good design crop up again and again.”
Definition of SPECIMEN
1
a : an individual, item, or part considered typical of a group, class, or whole
b : a portion or quantity of material for use in testing, examination, or study
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a : something that obviously belongs to a particular category but is noticed by reason of an individual distinguishing characteristic
b : person, individual
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Origin of SPECIMEN
Latin, from specere to look at, look
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Paris-Dakar
Portuguese Ruben Faria and his KTM, January 2011. Photo by Stéphane Mantey.
Source: L‘Equipe Magazine: Les plus belles photos de 2011 -
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Le Mans
Martini Racing-Team’s Porsche in Le Mans, 1970’s.
Source: Porsche @ Facebook -
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“It makes me feel incredibly small”
Aerial view of New York, by Navid Baraty.
Source: National Geographic’s Photo of the Day (Dec 7, 2011) -
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Cloud collection
Rüdiger Nehmzow (a German photographer, once again) shooting the clouds four miles above ground, wearing oxygen mask with the airplane doors wide open.
Via: A Cup of Jo -
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“Antichrist”
Charlotte Gainsbourg in Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist”, 2009.
Source: Zentropa Entertainment @ Flickr -
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Droplet
German photographer Heinz Maier’s delicate high speed liquid photographs are NOT digital, believe it or not.
Via: Colossal -
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein
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Good design: The ten principles of Dieter Rams →
Ten commandments by Dieter Rams (b 1932), one of the most influental industrial designers of the 20th cenury.
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
