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Photography is one of my greatest passions in life, it is an art of observation. Ever since I was very little I took pleasure in observing the world around me. I could always find something interesting in an ordinary place. It was this curiosity and a passion to capture the interesting within the ordinary that lead me to photography.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files are great – the lovely little graphic file format that allows for a gradation from full colour to transparency within a graphic. It’s a handy little tool in your kit to help you translate a designer’s vision into a web page.
Well, handy in some browsers. In other browsers it’s more of a “hmmmm, how does this work?” kind of thing. Those “other browsers” being IE6 and IE5.5.
I’ve been amazed by these photos ever since I first saw them a couple of years ago.
They’re of an art installation in San Francisco called ‘There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole World’. Chris Cobb, a local artist, rearranged every single one of the 20,000 books in the Adobe Book shop by colour.
Last weekend I found myself ambling through Southwark, walking off a large lunch. As I turned the corner of the street I saw this great sign fixed to the side of a building:
Being a lover of typography and signs that fascinate and intrigue, I couldn’t help but take a picture. This started me thinking about how the language of street signs has changed over the years and how much ‘street furniture‘ contributes to the defacto visual identity of the UK.
Image courtesy of nswlearnscope
Over the holiday I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s new book ‘Meatball Sundae’, in which he argues that we stand on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution. His chronology goes something like this (I added the clock stuff):
