Always wanted a to-scale (U.S.) ruler/wallpaper image so I created one this evening. Designed for iPhone 4/4S (should work on 3G models as well). Based on a classic 1950’s Koh-i-Noor Architect’s scale I own. Designed specifically for use as a lock-screen wallpaper image… Enjoy!
Tumblr defaults images to 500px. To download the correct iPhone resolution click here, right click on image and choose “save…”.
Monowheel, 1933. Walter Nilsson inside the wheel
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Wes Jones…
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We’re getting close to digital full-sized construction documents. Exciting stuff…
“…LG just announced that it has begun mass production of a 6-inch, 1024 x 768 e-paper screen that can bend by up to 40 degrees…”
(via The Verge)
USAFA Cadet Chapel / Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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Seminal architecture books as sculptures carved into bowling balls…
“…An ongoing series of sculptures exploring the notions of trophy and information, Trophy appropriates the Brunswick ‘Black Beauty’ bowling ball. Each ball is meticulously hand carved into the seminal architectural ‘Big game’ trophy, i.e., the ‘super books’ of Mau, Koolhaus, Corbu etc…”
(via A Daily Dose of Architecture)
“…most of our competitors are interesting in doing something different, or want to appear new - I think those are completely the wrong goals. A product has to be genuinely better. This requires real discipline, and that’s what drives us - a sincere, genuine appetite to do something that is better. Committees just don’t work, and it’s not about price, schedule or a bizarre marketing goal to appear different - they are corporate goals with scant regard for people who use the product…” — Jonathan Ive (interview in the Evening Standard)