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Topographic Type

BARNISM — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:54:28 +0000

Seen by St. Paul’s in London.

N. E. Thing Co.

BARNISM — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:20:50 +0000

N.E. Thing Co. was a Canadian art collective producing work from 1967-1978. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia., N.E. Thing Co. was run by co-presidents Iain and Ingrid Baxter.

Seminal figures in the emergence of conceptual art movement in Canada during the late sixties, NE. Thing Co. used corporate strategies to generate and frame its artistic practice.

Essay by Nancy Shaw: ‘Siting the Banal, The Expanded Landscapes of the N. E. Thing Co.’, here.
Another essay ‘N.E. Thing Co.: The Ubiquitous Concept’, by Derek Knight, here.

All images from here.
Found via.

All men are to recognize and note for posterity that act xx on this xx day of xx 19xx has met the stringent requirements of sensitivity information as set forth by the N. E. Thing Co.
It is hereby and henceforth elevated for eternity to the realm of aesthetically claimed things.
It is to be known from this day on by all men as an act.
* The N. E. Thing Co. reserves the right to redo or duplicate any act as a future project.
Signed President, Iain Baxter
N. E. Thing Co.
Act Department

Maps Charts Diagrams

BARNISM — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:34:52 +0000

Nice collection of Maps Charts & Diagrams in this flickr set.

Via But Does It Float.

Typographic Maps

BARNISM — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:51:18 +0000

Linocut made by Mark Andrew Webber.

This is Amsterdam; there’s also New York, London & Paris here.

Via.

Tea Stain Map

BARNISM — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:26:31 +0000

Amsterdam Bus Map

BARNISM — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:24:54 +0000

From the Amsterdam Stadsarchief (Amsterdam City Archives).

Map of Amsterdam Expansion

BARNISM — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:22:12 +0000

At least that’s what I think it was..
From the Amsterdam Stadsarchief (Amsterdam City Archives).

Circular S-Bahn Map

BARNISM — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:34:58 +0000

Seen as part of someone’s exhibition in the SMCS

A Short History of Anatomical Maps

BARNISM — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:08:15 +0000

illustration from hans von gersdorff’s book ‘feldtb?ch der wundartzney: newlich getruckt und gebessert’,
1529, nicked from designboom.

Nice “overview of the evolution of anatomical knowledge and the visual documentation that has inspired physicians and public alike”, over at designboom.

Overlayed Maps

BARNISM — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:18:12 +0000