Art: Art on the Net: The Second Wave

BusinessWeek's Art on the Net: The Second Wave:

Critics still insist that unlike books, clothing, and other consumer goods, art really has to be experienced in person before deciding whether or not it's the right fit. But with some 126 million Americans already buying an increasing number of goods electronically, a new batch of entrepreneurs is banking on a bright future in online art.

A couple examples cited in the article are BoundlessGallery and The Guild.

[via Design Observer]

Category: Art

Architecture: Subway Stations

Metro Arts and Architecture:

Read which metro systems double as the world's longest art galleries and in which cities you can see stunning underground palaces, museums, aquariums, an ancient chapel, the world's first example of computer-generated architecture and other kinds of interesting things in subway stations.

[via Anil Dash]

Category: Architecture

Quotes: Tom Stoppard

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

From Tom Stoppard in Artist Descending a Staircase.

Category: Quotes

Design: Typography Workshop

The University of Delaware's Visual Communications Program offers an online Typography Workshop:

We have developed this web site and its exercises to help students develop a tasteful sensitivity when setting type. We have over 75 exercises to help students learn to artfully control letter spacing. Letter spacing is a fine-tuning process that demonstrates a designer's sensitivity towards typography. Words are made up of what seems to be an infinite number of letter combinations. But not all of these letter fit together very well.

[via The Skinny]

Category: Design

Quotes: On Intelligence

I don’t think I’m really all that intelligent, but I have a talent for amplifying my intelligence.

From R. D. G., 1975, in How to Write More Clearly, Think More Clearly, and Learn Complex Material More Easily.

Category: Quotes