Atari Arcade Manual Cover Art

Source: Atari Arcade Manual Cover Art for Selected Vector Games Released Between 1979 and 1983

The Great Mental Power of the Brain-Bat

Nice hat...

Via The Horrors of it All

The Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms

“… black chimneys, buildings, crankshafts, cylinders. Ready to talk to you, I raise my hands, I sing of you, my iron friends… I go to the factory as to a festival, as to a feast.”



Yakov Chernikhov was a constructivist architect and a teacher of architecture during the Stalinist period of Soviet Russia in the 1930s. His books on architectural design published in Leningrad between 1927 and 1933 are amongst the most innovatory texts (and illustrations) of their time.
Greatly interested in futurist movements, including constructivism, and the suprematism of Malevich (with whom he was acquainted), he set out his ideas in a series of books in the late 1920s and early 1930s, including: The Art of Graphic Representation (1927), Fundamentals of Contemporary Architecture (1930), The Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms (1931), 101 Architectural Fantasies (1933).





Iakov Chernikov International Foundation
On Amazon: Graphic Masterpieces of Yakov G. Chernikhov

Superhighways, Approach to the City

Mead: "If you've ever looked down on a major [highway] interchange you couldn't have helped but admire the very definite swings and tensions of the road curvatures, interlocking lanes and off-ramps, all based on precise control of the kinetic energy flowing over them."

Taping up New York

Aakash Nihalani's work consists mostly of isometric rectangles and squares. These graphics are selectively placed around New York to highlight unexpected contours and elegant geometry of the city itself.



"My work is created in a reaction to what we readily encounter in our lives, sidewalks and doorways, building and bricks. I'm just connecting the dots differently to make my own picture. Others need to see that they can create too, connecting their own dots, in their own places." - Aakash Nihalan





Aakash Nihalani
Aakash Nihalani's flickr photostream

Via My Modern Metropolis

The Perfect World of Total Pleasure

Imagine this...
You touch a switch, turn a dial... and the
perfect lover steps into your arms.
Imagine: clothing made of lightweight precious
jewels and metals molded to your body instantly.
Imagine: a whole new face, a whole new body
... a whole new you... in less than an hour.
Imagine: a world in which each day is the best day of your life.

There's just one catch.
The only thing you can't have in this perfect world
of tomorrow is... your 30th birthday.



Movie poster for the American theatrical release of the film "Logan's Run" (1976).
Designed by Bemis Balkind and artworked by Charles Moll.

Currently, there is a remake scheduled for a 2010 release date, being directed by Joseph Kosinski (director of Tron Legacy).

Starting with the Universe

Image from Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe