It's dark. Sorry. But I spotted this on an office whiteboard and it got me thinking about pictographs and the evolution of the Chinese language. The above look like 田命 (Tian Ming), the characters, respectively, for "field" and "life".

What would modern pictographs look like? Something like the above, I suspect - inspired by PowerPoint and graphs, rather than images from nature.

Labels: chinese, design, language

11:20 AM | Monday, June 28, 2010 | Links to this post | 1 Comments

Louvre-DNP Museum Lab at Onishi Gallery

Swung by Onishi Gallery this weekend to check out the Louvre-DNP Museum Lab's display of augmented reality and other technologies for museums and cultural institutions. Longer review to come, but I wanted to get this post up, as it's well worth a visit--the show runs till June 10 (this Thursday!)

More info about the Museum Lab.

Labels: art, technology

7:06 PM | Sunday, June 06, 2010 | Links to this post | 0 Comments

That Was Zen, This Is Tao:
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