The New Modern » Short Links http://www.thenewmodern.net A Nexus for Culture, Books, Media, Ideas, and the Arts Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:18:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Nexus for Culture, Books, Media, Ideas, and the Arts The New Modern no A Nexus for Culture, Books, Media, Ideas, and the Arts The New Modern » Short Links http://www.thenewmodern.net/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://www.thenewmodern.net/topics/short-links/ Links on Art and Design: A digest of short items from Twitter and other sources http://www.thenewmodern.net/2010/links-on-art-and-design-a-digest-of-short-items-from-twitter-and-other-sources/ http://www.thenewmodern.net/2010/links-on-art-and-design-a-digest-of-short-items-from-twitter-and-other-sources/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:34:49 +0000 Andrew Hazlett http://www.thenewmodern.net/?p=335

Some interesting links and short items on Art and Design from The New Modern twitter stream and other sources.

Architecture

Design

  • Hollywood’s computers: NPR looks at the computer screens shown in films that tell a story in a flash of computer animation. [read/listen]
  • A blog entirely dedicated to the beauty of ampersands [view] via @swissmiss
  • Beautiful, historic, and/or interesting letterheads enshrined Letterheady [view] via @walterolson
  • Why did the modernists love sans serif typefaces? [read] via @thinkaboutart & @ColinPeters

Visual Art

  • How art affects the brain, a study/exhibition at the Walters Museum [read] via @davetroy
  • Niagara Falls… to American art what portraits of kings are to European art? [read]
  • A typically lovely illustration by the legendary Arthur Rackham [view] via @ThinkAboutArt & @EricOrchard
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