South Pole, Geodesic Dome ( Buckminster Fuller )
1975 - 2009

Photo Credit: Forest Banks
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Isamu Noguchi, My Arizona
fiberglass, plastic

1943-1977

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LUNARS

Isamu Noguchi first envisioned illuminated sculpture in a model for a neon work in the late 1920s, and then in his 1933 design of a Musical Weathervane. But it was in the 1940s that he created his first sculptures of this kind, which he called Lunars. Made of magnesite enclosing light bulbs, these sculptures employed the biomorphic curves of Surrealism, and took the form of both reliefs and freestanding sculptures. In 1947-48 Noguchi created three dramatic lunar interiors, making the notion of illuminated sculpture fully environmental. Noguchi’s most well-known light sculptures, however, are his line of Akari lamps, fabricated of mulberry paper and bamboo. Beginning in 1951 Noguchi continued to design Akari models for the rest of his career.

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gurafiku:

Japanese poster: Zen-on. Mitsuo Katsui. 1981

endlessforms:

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gurafiku:

Japanese Poster: Rock Collection 94. Yusaku Kamekura.

fyeahchemistry:freshphotons:

Professor Sir Harold Kroto on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced - he received the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for discovering spherical fullerines, the carbon structures known as ‘Buckyballs’.

art-documents:

Marcel Marien, L‘Introuvable, 1937, Coll. Sylvio Perlstein, Antwerp

Virginia Woolf, The Waves, published 1931. First Edition dust jacket by Vanessa Bell.

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Emil Ruder via { Minimalissimo }

Emil Ruder, Swiss typographer and graphic designer. Ruder (1914-1970) played an important role in the development and dissemination of the Swiss Style.

“Typography has one plain duty before 
it and that is to convey information 
in writing.” – Emil Ruder

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