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RQ'VA, as in Rosa Quiterio's Visual Archive. I'm a Portuguese graphic designer and this is my visual archive / tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff that caught my eye related to Art, Design, Illustration,Typography, Motion Graphics...

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Parents say N, Children do Y

Mirar o rio, que é de tempo e água, E recordar que o tempo é outro rio, Saber que nos perdemos como o rio E que passam os rostos como a água. E sentir que a vigília é outro sonho Que sonha não sonhar, sentir que a morte, Que a nossa carne teme, é essa morte De cada noite, que se chama sonho. E ver no dia ou ver no ano um símbolo Desses dias do homem, de seus anos, E converter o ultraje desses anos Em uma música, um rumor e um símbolo. E ver na morte o sonho, e ver no ocaso Um triste ouro, e assim é a poesia, Que é imortal e pobre. A poesia Retorna como a aurora e o ocaso. Às vezes, pelas tardes, uma face Nos observa do fundo de um espelho; A arte deve ser como esse espelho Que nos revela nossa própria face. Contam que Ulisses, farto de prodígios, Chorou de amor ao avistar sua Ítaca Humilde e verde. A arte é essa Ítaca De um eterno verdor, não de prodígios. Também é como o rio interminável Que passa e fica e que é cristal de um mesmo Heráclito inconstante que é o mesmo E é outro, como o rio interminável.
ARTE POÉTICA – Jorge Luís Borges Tradução de Rolando Roque da Silva

To gaze at a river made of time and water And remember Time is another river. To know we stray like a river and our faces vanish like water. To feel that waking is another dream that dreams of not dreaming and that the death we fear in our bones is the death that every night we call a dream. To see in every day and year a symbol of all the days of man and his years, and convert the outrage of the years into a music, a sound, and a symbol. To see in death a dream, in the sunset a golden sadness—such is poetry, humble and immortal, poetry, returning, like dawn and the sunset. Sometimes at evening there’s a face that sees us from the deeps of a mirror. Art must be that sort of mirror, disclosing to each of us his face. They say Ulysses, wearied of wonders, wept with love on seeing Ithaca, humble and green. Art is that Ithaca, a green eternity, not wonders. Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining, a mirror to the same inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same and yet another, like the river flowing.
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Contempler le fleuve fait de temps et d’eau Et se souvenir que le temps est un fleuve aussi, Savoir que nous nous perdons comme fait le fleuve Et que les visages passent comme l’eau.
Sentir que la veille est elle aussi un sommeil Qui rêve de ne point dormir, et que la mort Que craint notre chair est cette même mort Qui vient chaque nuit, qu’on appelle sommeil.
Voir dans le jour, dans l’année un symbole Des jours de l’homme et de ses ans ; Convertir l’outrage des ans En une musique, un bruit, un symbole.
Voir le sommeil dans la mort, dans le couchant Un or triste, telle est la poésie Qui est immortelle et pauvre. La poésie Revient comme l’aurore et le couchant.
Parfois, le soir, un visage Nous regarde du fond d’un miroir : L’art doit être comme ce miroir Nous dévoilant notre propre visage.
On raconte qu’Ulysse, rassasié de prodiges, Pleura d’amour en retrouvant son Ithaque Verte et humble. L’art est cette Ithaque Riche d’une verte éternité, non de prodiges.
Il est aussi comme le fleuve sans fin Qui passe et qui reste, toujours le cristal d’un seul Inconstant Héraclite, qui est toujours le même Et autre pourtant, comme un fleuve sans fin.
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Image: Letha Wilson. Reverse Colorado Rip, 2010. Xerox transfer, graphite, C-print on cut paper, 22 x 22 x 3 inches
Text: Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Art of Poetry.” New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York, 1988.

Four thousand years of world history (Infography).

Flux Typography Collection

I read where I am.

typography history:

I took this picture at the letterpress workshop I’ll be attending weekly from now on. These cases are a tiny sample of all the fonts available.
[Elzévir (by Mitternacht)]

Showing: David Shrigley – ‘Brain Activity’ @ Hayward Gallery (Part I) | (via Arrested Motion)

A Brief History of the ‘Marber Grid’ – The layout that changed book design forever
. (via The History of the ‘Marber Grid’ - The Book Design Blog)

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita gets a new cover treatment — via Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers

Don't Overthink It: 5 Tips for Daily Decision-Making :: Tips :: The 99 Percent ↘

graphicalhouse:

Really interesting Twitter/Mapping related story over at Design is Blank.

Light threads from window by Le Creative Sweatshop

Jaime Davidovich — Henrique Faria Fine Art Gallery — NY, USA | Flickr – Condivisione di foto!

“Improved Design for Modern Man” byBoris Artzybasheff

The Incomplete Enchanter

Boris Artzybasheff

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