Hobo signs and symbols
To cope with the uncertainties of life, hobos developed a system of symbols they’d write with chalk or coal to provide fellow “Knights of the Road” with directions, help, and warnings.
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Author: Joe Senior
A designer’s guide to printing a poster
Taking digital designs into the real world can be fraught with gotchas and gremlins.
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The World’s Scariest Fonts
Typefaces are called upon by designers to instill all sorts of characteristics in text.
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Davide Quayola creates sublime ‘antiquities’ carved by robots
Since it was first unearthed in 1506, Laocoön and His Sons has been one of the most revered works of classical sculpture.
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A Pioneering Female Scientific Illustrator, Rediscovered
Even without a caption, an astute viewer can quickly recognize the crux of the visual argument: not all valleys are created equally.
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