Friday, November 14, 2014

Link Round-Up: November 14, 2014

Beautiful illustrations by Chris Skinner


How Colleges Are Training Designers to treat users like more than lab rats

How Pixar Uses Math to Make Characters Look Perfect

Lisa Nilsson's new paper quilling project is called Tapis.  You might recall her anatomical pieces, Angelico and the Tissue Series, in which she created cross sections of the body in paper. Nilsson elevates quilling to a high art, creating astonishing forms with densely packed coils of quarter-inch mulberry strips, and crimped and shaped gilt paper, all of which she cuts by hand.

Manuscript Miniatures, Effigies & Brasses, Armour in Art, and Aquamanilia are four online databases of medieval art. Together they comprise some 19,506 images.

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014) is an article about a 24-year old Chinese assembly line worker and poet who committed suicide last month. He worked for the electronics manufacturer which makes products for a range of companies, including Sony, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Nintendo. The post includes Chinese originals and English translations of Xu Lizhi's poems.


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