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Google – The first Google image for every word in the dictionary

If a picture says more than a thousand words – and current internet dynamics tend to agree – what would a visual guide to the English vocabulary, contemporary and ‘webresentative’, look like? Ben West and Felix Heyes, two artists and designers from London (UK), found out when they replaced the 21,000 words found in your everyday dictionary with whatever shows up first for each word in Google’s image search. Behold Google – a 1240 page behemoth of JPGs, GIFs and PNGs in alphabetical order.

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Mark Lombardi, George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens
c. 1979-90, 5th Version, 1999

The late artist Mark Lombardi is well known for his large-scale flow charts of major political and financial scandals. Unlike most works of art, his maps do not depict the hypothetical or imaginary but are rendered based on facts from mainstream publications like the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. Lombardi carefully organized these facts in a handwritten database of over 14,000 cross-referenced index cards. He iteratively composed his “narrative structures” in his medium of choice: colored pencil and graphite on paper. This map shows the fifth version of a chart that focuses on the conjunction of illegal arms dealing by Chinese nationalists in Los Angeles and possible White House campaign-finance corruption. Two layers of information are presented: essential elements of the story in black, and major lawsuits, criminal indictments, and other legal actions taken against the parties in red. Interconnections of different types are revealed: a solid arrow represents influence or control; a double arrow, mutual relationship or association; a dashed arrow, flow of money, loans, or credits; a squiggle, the sale or transfer of an asset; and a double hyphen, a blocked or incomplete transaction. Line labels further detail relationships and dollar amounts.

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Sociology of the Family by Michael Anderson

Cover from Penguin Education set via Flickr

Perspecta 35: Building Codes

Perspecta 35: Building Codes Architectural journal, edited by Elijah Huge, New Haven: Yale School of Architecture & Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2004. Sewn paperback, 229 x 305 mm, 160 pp. The book consists of two kinds of writing: the full-length, academic ‘essays’, and the more personal and sketch-like ‘briefs’. The essays form the main body of the book, while the briefs, printed on smaller sheets of coloured paper, are placed at an interval of sixteen pages, regardless of the flow of the essays. The book in its standard format is quite big for extended reading: the text is set in an accordingly large size, forcing the reader to maintain a safe distance between his/her eyes and the book. It also adds a slightly unfamiliar, rather wild quality to the largely conventional and refined layout.

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Graduate study in aeronautics and astronautics  by Jacqueline S. Casey

A 1973 poster to promote various graduate programs within the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, includes descriptions of various subject areas offered.

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Faculty-student exchange program  by Jacqueline S. Casey

Poster is a 1972 promotion for a faculty-student exchange program to promote cooperation among the member institutions in various scientific and technological fields. Participating institutions include Alabama A. and M. University, Benett College, Fisk University, Hampton Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Norfolk State College, North Carolina A. and T. University and Virginia State College Copyright M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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The computer  by Jacqueline S. Casey

This poster is part of a collection of posters designed by Jacqueline S. Casey for events and activities held at MIT from 1963 to 1990.

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Exploration  by Jacqueline S. Casey

Poster for the 1970 exhibition which included works from a larger exhibition designated for the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution. Design on the poster was created using office supply dots This poster is part of a collection of posters designed by Jacqueline S. Casey for events and activities held at MIT from 1963 to 1990.

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Attitudes toward mental patients: a study across cultures by Alexander R. Askenasy

Cover design by Schrofer, Jurriaan, 1974

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Technology Review, May 1973

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CORTIPYREN MARXER design by René Martinelli 1956-1958 
(Studio Boggeri S.A., Mailand, IT)

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