Amazing Type!

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Lesley Barns

 This is a Lesley Barns video I found because I like musicians music who put music to this. I thought I’d whack it up here as its very collagey .

Amelia’s magazine

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Howies

Howies is a magazine that I stumbled across a few years ago, its big focus is the environment so its very relevant. its a beautiful put together magazine with amazing photography with nice illustrations. It’s a clothing brand but the magazine makes it feel like your reading something a friend has put together.  

Leonardo da Vinci

As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptualising a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, and the double hull, and outlining a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

collage?

I saw this in a book I was flicking through and I really like it. I’m not too sure what its all about but it looks good!

the grandfather paradox.

Today I was mostly thinking about the grandfather paradox and how complicated it is. I will explain it so’s to make for a decent post. It goes like this, if you go back in time and kill your grandfarther it would result in the death of you, as your dad would not be born thus meaning you would not be born, but then you have to ask question if you are not born, who went back in time and killed your grandfather. It gets a little more complicated when people try and get around the problem by putting it down to parallel universes.

Time Travel.

An article on Ronald Mallett recently caught my eye, as it was suggested that he was on his way to making the worlds first time machine. I obviously read on to find that he was an american professor of physics who has wanted to make a time machine since his farther died of a heart attack when he was aged 10. I have a vague understanding of what he is getting at. In order to travel in time you need to travel faster than the speed of light, Mallett thinks he can achive this by circulating a laser beam thats temperature is hotter than the sun. By doing this he thinks that this will spin space (and time). By dropping and object into this swirling space he things he will be able to send messages back in time to the point where the time machine is switched on.

I want to do a little more research into the area as there are many theorys about the subject and theres is a number of possibilites to develop for a magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Mallett

The Last Magazine.

After feeling a bit fed up of looking through magazines, I found myself looking through a book (about magazines). Even though I was jumping the gun a little, I decided to go ahead and document it anyways. It gave me inspiration to get going again it made me feel like drawing and going out to take photographs. Which is what I will do. It also had a bit of collage in there.

Baseline.

Baseline is a magazine compleatly about typography. Baseline appeared in 1995 but has won several major international design awards in the USA, Europe and Japan. It is characterized by its large format, sumptuous double cover which is always quirky in design and relates to the topic. I like parts of the magazine but sections of the magazine comes across as old fashioned, that may be due to the small market of people it is aimed at.