Finamore Design

Leonardo DaVinci was one of the most pro­lific artists of all time.

Read the text in his note­books via Project Guten­berg or on Interconnected.org

The New York Pub­lic Library has an online Dig­i­tal Gallery that pro­vides access to over 520,000 images dig­i­tized from pri­mary sources and printed rar­i­ties in their col­lec­tions, includ­ing illu­mi­nated man­u­scripts, his­tor­i­cal maps, vin­tage posters, rare prints and pho­tographs, illus­trated books, printed ephemera, and more. (more…)

There are per­haps 5% of the pop­u­la­tion that sim­ply can’t think.
There are another 5% who can, and do.
The remain­ing 90% can think, but don’t.
– R. A. Heinlein

I recently stum­bled upon the work of Chris Jor­dan and was com­pletely blown away. Espe­cially by his Cans Seu­rat (in his Run­ning the Num­bers series), which is a Dig­i­tal C print mea­sur­ing 6×7 feet, depict­ing 106,000 alu­minum cans, equal to the num­ber of cans con­sumed in the US every thirty sec­onds. (more…)

The By the Peo­ple, For the Peo­ple: Posters from the WPA, 1936–1943 col­lec­tion con­sists of 908 boldly col­ored and graph­i­cally diverse orig­i­nal posters pro­duced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress’s col­lec­tion of more than 900 is the largest. These strik­ing silkscreen, lith­o­graph, and wood­cut posters were designed to pub­li­cize health and safety pro­grams; cul­tural pro­grams includ­ing art exhi­bi­tions, the­atri­cal, and musi­cal per­for­mances; travel and tourism; edu­ca­tional pro­grams; and com­mu­nity activ­i­ties in sev­en­teen states and the Dis­trict of Colum­bia. The posters were made pos­si­ble by one of the first U.S. Gov­ern­ment pro­grams to sup­port the arts and were added to the Library’s hold­ings in the 1940s.

It seems every­time I am asked to spell my name, peo­ple do not hear me well and it always ends up with a mis­spelling. I have taken to using the NATO pho­netic alpha­bet to spell my name now and amaz­ingly every­one under­stands… (more…)

By now just about every­one I know has seen the pho­tos of the effects dif­fer­ent drugs have on a spi­ders abil­ity to spin a web. But I just ran across this video…

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These books are a def­i­nite asset to any busi­ness per­son, cre­ative or not, who wants to score extreme suc­cess. These books are well writ­ten, extremely insight­ful, and fun to look at. I find these two books work well together, while GUT focuses on how to lis­ten to and under­stand your gut instinct, BALLSY gives you the skills you need to act upon these instincts. (more…)

Did you know that Thomas Alva Edi­son, one of the most cre­ative tech­ni­cal inno­va­tors in the his­tory of the world, wrote over Five Mil­lion Pages of Doc­u­ments? Thanks to the tire­less work of the Thomas A. Edi­son Papers at Rut­gers, The State Uni­ver­sity of New Jer­sey, the daily record of Edison’s extra­or­di­nary life and achieve­ments is com­ing to light. (more…)