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Constructed in 2005 at Zadar in Croatia, the Sea Organ is a 70m long ‘acoustic jetty’ designed by architect Nikola Bašić. The structure incorporates 35 polyethylene tubes of varying diameter inside which air, displaced by waves, is forced through large whistles tuned to play seven chords of five tones all day long, every day.
In 2006 it won the European Prize for Urban Public Space, inspiring the creation of Peter Richards and George Gonzalez’s Wave Organ in San Francisco.
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A 1959 BMW 507 roadster up for auction at Sotheby’s in London on December 10th.
Yours for a mere £2,300,000 – £2,600,000.
Eclectic typography from the storefronts and public buildings of Broadway which runs the length of Manhattan, collected by Hopes and Fears’ Gabriella Garcia with help of typography expert Ksenya Samarskaya.
MORE: 13 miles of typography on Broadway, from A to Z (hopesandfears)
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The American Institute of Graphic Arts’ Ultimate Typography Quiz. To wit:
Do you grit your teeth if someone says “font” when he or she really means “typeface?” Does bad kerning just about ruin your day? Do you practically weep when a designer looks baffled at your ever-so-subtle suggestions to use proper ligatures?
Take it here.
The impossibly well ordered artists’ supplies lab and store Pigment in Tokyo – designed and created by architect Kengo Kuma.
Brushes, glues, papers, rare materials, recondite art tools and a spectrum of 4,200 individual pigments displayed on the walls, each container precisely equidistant from the next.
