Studio Ampersand (Dimis Giannakoulias) is located in Patras, Greece.
Posters
Tram Tearoom
An amazing collection of prints. The layout use of type and composition is retro with illustrations that grab you. It seems to have something for everyone.
(Source: studioampersand.net)
The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart
“Remember the good old days when everyone read really good books, like, maybe in the post-war years when everyone appreciated a good use of the semi-colon? Everyone’s favorite book was by Faulkner or Woolf or Roth. We were a civilized civilization. This was before the Internet and cable television, and so people had these, like, wholly different desires and attention spans. They just craved, craved, craved the erudition and cultivation of our literary kings and queens.
Well, that time never existed. Check out these stats from Gallup surveys. In 1957, not even a quarter of Americans were reading a book or novel. By 2005, that number had shot up to 47 percent. I couldn’t find a more recent number, but I think it’s fair to say that reading probably hasn’t declined to the horrific levels of the 1950s.”Full Story: Atlantic
So ironic, that every year people say to me print is dying, its just evolving. We are all evolving,
(via gjmueller)
“Life is Beautiful”
Installation by Farhad Moshiri using kitchen knives
Really stopped me in my tracks this image, when I saw they where knives I asked my self why is it beautiful?
Learning styles—the notion that each student has a particular mode by which he or she learns best, whether it’s visual, auditory or some other sense—is enormously popular. It’s also been thoroughly debunked.
The scientific research on learning styles is “so weak and unconvincing,” concluded a group of distinguished psychologists in a 2008 review, that it is not possible “to justify incorporating learning-styles assessments into general educational practice.” A 2010 article was even more blunt: “There is no credible evidence that learning styles exist,” wrote University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham and co-author Cedar Riener. While students do have preferences about how they learn, the evidence shows they absorb information just as well whether or not they encounter it in their preferred mode.
» via MindShift
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The cookable cookbook! The edible lasagna book by Korefe.
Design has never looked so delicous :D
oliphillips:
Balloon Tank
by Hans Hemmert
I once was lucky to go to an exhibition which had a room full of balloons and you had to go into the room and just stand there. The people out side the room where in a heated discussion over the installation, once entering the room it was evident. Watching the expressions on people in the room was magic. It worked, people had an opinion, they laughed, they talked and it bought out the child in us all.
(Source: booooooom.com)
Beautiful numbers found in the most unexpected place: Waitrose (British supermarket) free magazine. Century Schoolbook, almost 100 years old. (Taken with instagram)
Sometimes less is more and this is just one of those examples.
Eric Gill (at V&A)—part 1
