Growing Graphics

I recently remembered this map I made depicting the crops planted on our main acre at Long Lane Farm.  The map is incomplete, and I think it could use some revising graphically/typographically speaking.

  

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I like the contrast of this image with actual farm photographs posted on this blog almost 2 years ago.  That summer I also attempted some sort of logo for the farm, which I ended up printing onto tote bags.  I wish I had a photograph of the tote bags I made, but this was my first attempt at graphics for the bags:

Opportunities

I'd love to be able to go to this international conference for young urban researchers.  Too bad I'm about to sign away my next year to a job.  Or that the conference is in Portugal.

Poo.

The Society for Heresiarchs of Autonomous Art

a series of limited edition newspapers

Sea Forts

I thought the romance of long lost battle sites and wartime infrastructure was lost on me, but alas--

these have me hooked:

The long abandoned British marine defense cubicles known as the Redsand Towers. The immobile and steadfast nature of these boxes, weathering under the relentless ocean-- it all screams the setting of some incredible psychological thriller, or maybe the base of some love-lost soldier.

More gorgeous, forlorn photographs from Max Nathan, the author of this blog and a research fellow at the LSE Cities Programme.

Tea House

I want to climb up into a special room with a beautiful view, away from all my clutter.


Terunobu Fujimori’s Takasugi-an tea house in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
Photographed by Edmund Sumner.

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