Future Toronto

Love this Future Toronto illustration by Mathew Borrett - an exploration of Toronto after a century or two of hard knocks for Spacing's 10th anniversary issue:



"I imagined it set 150 to 200 years from now. I didn’t decide on any one catastrophe having occured, but perhaps a long period of general instability and decay followed by the beginnings of a renewal. Obviously some kind of climate change has occurred, though not of a nature expected by science. A lot of people have understandably commented that the illustration is about global warming and rising ocean levels. However, Lake Ontario rising 30 feet is not considered a plausible climate change scenario. Honestly, it’s just a fictional conceit that looks cool and opened up some fun possibilities for me to play with."





Worth checking them out much bigger on Mathew's Flickr photostream

H is for Hermann Helmholtz

Geometer

A geometer is a mathematician whose area of study is geometry...







Artwork by Mark A Reynolds

40 Days Dans le Desert B

Images from 40 Days in the Desert - Jean Giraud's (aka Moebius) psychedelic masterpiece in monochrome, seemingly based around 'The temptation of Christ'

Science & Technology

Came across these great illustrations on tumblr, couldn't find any more information (on the interweb) on them other than they appear to be from an exhibition of "50 years of Soviet Science and Technology. KGM, Budapest, 1967":

Guadalejos

Love!



Architectural drawings by Guillermo Trapiello...






Spotted on FFFFOUND!

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Title: T.S. Eliot
Diagrams from Diagramism

Topological Structures

The crazy, fantastic world of Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko, better known for his revisionist theories on historical chronology. The following illustrations were for the novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov:






NB: In 1992 Fomenko became head of the Differential Geometry and Applications Department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Moscow State University... now that is a job title!

The Master and Margarita - Anatoly Fomenko

Via but does it float

Settlements and City Strategies

A series of abstracted planimetric drawings and eerily-serene cityscapes that suggest the changing contours of urban settlements, by Illustrator/Designer Lekan Jeyifo:




"They represent an idea of a degenerate futurism, yet one might find similar typologies and scenes in places such as the favelas of Brazil and North Africa, and in overpopulated cities such as Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai."







Settlements and City Strategies on the Behance Network

Via visuelle.co.uk

The Invention and Exploration of Objects

I love these sketches by American artist Robert Cummings:



"The invention and exploration of objects and their relationship to function and to ideas has always been Robert Cumming's obsession, his way of making sense of an ever more complex and frightening world. Certain recurrent themes can be identified as they are permutated in an impressive variety of techniques and media at Cumming's command, including sculpture, photography, writing, drawing and, most recently, painting."



Via but does it float

Chaos and Structure

Stunning work by Tatiana Plakhova - Chaos and Structure:









COMPLEXITY GRAPHICS