Mindblowing February Links

(“Mindblowing” links because plain “February Links” just doesn’t cut it anymore.)

This list has neat art and articles for those who like going down Internet rabbit-holes!

Robert Wun

Robert Wun is a designer to the stars, and his clothes are mindblowing:

https://www.robertwun.com/collections

I especially like the outfits that have extra arms:

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Illustrator Hellen Jo

I liked reading Fernando Borretti’s fictional story “Julia“. Lots of techy dudes writing weird stuff ’round here! 🤠

Toronto aerial photos that show how the city changes of the years:

You can see even older maps of Toronto at “Historical Maps of Toronto” – by Nathan Ng, the guy behind “Station Fixation“.

https://www.oldto.org <- Like Google Streetview for old Toronto images.

For visitors from the future: if the Google-hosted images ever go down, I have the 30Gigs of images from that site locally saved (City of Toronto Archive only).

You can also check out raccoonix.jacobfiilpp.com – a version of the same site, but this one has the Toronto Public Library images included.

Fonts/Printers’ Ornaments from the Digital Archive of Ontario

1902 Brutalist-Art-Deco printers’ ornaments:
https://digitalarchiveontario.ca/objects/209214/behrens-schriften-initialen-und-schmuck?ctx=a315a0209b3b17db2c83df765fa182ddb83a4329&idx=0

French specimens – 1764
https://digitalarchiveontario.ca/objects/377465/les-caracteres-de-limprimerie?ctx=214a6b4d6306e7aea13cc9ef707bd42373f68540&idx=1

Nice borders and initial capitals that you can use for projects/websites:
https://digitalarchiveontario.ca/objects/332434/book-decorations?ctx=214a6b4d6306e7aea13cc9ef707bd42373f68540&idx=3

Note to self to visit in the Toronto Public LIbrary:

https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C1598760
https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C1451873
https://tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S234C294487

More Typography

Catalogue of Type Specimens:
https://library.typographica.org/specimen-books-of-metal-wood-type

Excellent borders for websites:
https://bibliotekus.artlebedev.ru/books/obraztsy-shriftov-slovolitni-flinsha/

Dekotora Japanese trucks

Check out these pictures of heavily-decorated Japanese trucks: https://toddantony.com/portfolio/dekotora/

There are also little capsule toys or Dekotora, and assemble-it-yourself models like the Gundam ones.

Yonge St. “Arcade” in Toronto

A beautiful building that was razed to the ground. I didn’t even realize it had existed.
https://digitalarchiveontario.ca/objects/336756/

This is just a nicely annotated picture:

Begone Dull Care

The story of Canadian animators Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren creating an abstract film by painting & scratching directly into celluloid film:

Bioplymer 3D printed lamps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Ximeng

The colours on this scroll are wild – and it is a long scroll. You can see the entire scroll here. (View from Right to Left)

糖人 – Sugar people – a traditional Chinese folk handycraft:

https://k.sina.com.cn/article_6754590910_1929ae0be00100lnir.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_people

https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

… Enjoy the links!