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• stamen design | Map Stack: Maps for all
  Map Stack is about putting your creativity on the map, making it radically simpler to design your own map styles, without having to know any code, sign up for anything, install any software, or do any typing. We provide different parts of the map stack: backgrounds, roads, labels, and satellite imagery and straightforward controls for manipulating things lik […]
• Sound in Sand: Complex Visualizations of Audio Frequencies | WebUrbanist
  Grains of sand arrange themselves into complex geometric patterns according to audio frequencies in these fascinating resonance experiments by Youtube user Brusspup. The sand is sprinkled onto a black metal plate attached to a tone generator, which emits a series of increasing frequencies. The higher the frequencies, the more intricate the designs become. […]
• The Sensory Worlds of Memory
  By engaging not only our eyes, but also our ears and minds, Cardiff and Miller create escapes into parallel worlds and windows into unfolding dramas. People may say they get lost in a museum, lost in a painting, or lost in an idea, but Lost in the Memory Palace manages to heighten the sensation of being adrift by effectively altering the very space around us […]
• Digital Deception: Architectural Photography After Photoshop: Places: Design Observer
  ...I came to see that the crafts of architectural rendering and photography have now merged into a common activity of digital image-making — so completely that, as demonstrated on the gallery wall, one can conceive a work of architecture and produce a “photograph” of it without having to go through the expensive, tedious and corrupting intermediate step of a […]
• Elizabeth Felicella's Tour of the New York Public Libraries : The New Yorker
  Elizabeth Felicella [is] an architectural photographer who has spent the past five years shooting all of the city’s library branches with a large-format camera... “I didn’t do this as a library activist, but if there is a call to action, then it would be to really see buildings as history and information and, in the case of the libraries, an incredible sedim […]