Theo Honohan

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Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 24d

Tata Ronkholz Santa Maria Assunta, Dom, Volterra 1975 and Rheinhafen Düsseldorf, Technik und Kräne (Rhine port Düsseldorf, technology and cranes) From the series Rheinhafen Düsseldorf 1979-1981

Black-and-white photograph of part of a striped church.

Black-and-white photograph of a crane on a dockside.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 25d

I like the font here. It's Founders Grotesk Condensed, apparently. www.friedmanbenda.com/editorial/or...

" In fact… I have to say that one of the things that struck me the most in Milan was the beauty, the physical beauty of the Milanese designers. I hadn’t thought of that. Yes, because… But I should add… People like Marco Zanuso, Vico Magistretti, Ettore Sottsass, were very snobby, very sophisticated. We’d never seen people like that in Florence. We had professors who were certainly good at their job, but they lacked the charisma that was typical of… and that was a cause of the very success of Italian design. In the post-war period, encountering individuals who were so sophisticated and elegant, so well-developed esthetically, was an occasion for seduction, nothing like the industrial side of Milan, which was very powerful, but also very limited. So these charismatic individuals had a great influence, as happens in the history of human relations. They had a great… It can’t be described in a book of history.

CR: That’s why I didn’t read it.

AB: However… encountering these professional designers who were so refined and well-developed, had a profound effect on us. It was fundamental, very important for us."

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 26d

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Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 26d

This guy ("The Designer of Things") does lighthouse prints. Setting aside the fact that the astragals are white, not black, on the real building, you've got to take account of the curvature of the lantern. It's an attention to detail issue – but then even the diamond grid in his print isn't regular!

Print showing the lantern of St John's Point lighthouse. From https://thedesignerofthings.com/products/lh10s-st-johns?variant=42657060520171

My simple visualisation of what an orthographic projection of the lantern should look like.

Photo: Patrick Tubby from https://lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk/listings/st-johns-point-lighthouse-down/

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 26d

Bernd and Hilla Becher 'Grube San Fernando, Herdorf, D', 1961

Black-and-photo of an industrial landscape.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 28d

Image from www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/12/16/a...

'... what art is for
"Are you talking about for the artist or for the audience? I'm not sure that it would be the same thing. For myself, it's everything from provocation to education, enlightenment, survival, entertainment and pleasure. I've never thought that I would be good at anything else. I have a lot of space in my head, you can put me alone in a room for the next year, I venture, and I wouldn't have a problem with it. Because I'm always self-entertaining or self-engaging. And art is a wonderful answer for me in terms of leaving evidence of myself or being a witness. A lot about being an artist for me is being a witness."'

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 28d

Pretty printing designed by Norm of Zürich

Typographic book cover for "Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese" by Florian Hecker: each page number in various sections is listed in neat tabular rows and columns, from page 1 to page 175.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 28d

Two photos of an aluminium smelter in Iceland. I'm pretty sure the absence of a horizon has thrown the photographer off here: these don't look level.

Colour photo showing a dramatic fjord with industrial construction site in the foreground.

Colour low-light photo of the same site, completed.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 28d

the trees today reminded me of this Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793-1865) Praterlandschaft, 1835

Colour photo of a precise and realistic oil painting of deciduous trees in a flat grassy landscape.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 28d

How your message finds me (image via mgerwingarch.com/m-gerwing/20...)

From "Where the Wild Things Are": Max's bedroom is transforming into a forest

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 29d

Wallace China Co., Huntington Park and Vernon, California (1931-1959) Wallace China color glaze test plates with rainbows of concentric circles, mid 1930s vitreous china/restaurantware, glazed

Colour photo from Los Angeles Magazine, August 2003 via Google Books

Photo from https://dinnerwaremuseum.org/colorful-california-dinnerware/

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· 29d

New blog post from Japan's Window Research Institute on the skylights in the atrium of the Academia Bookstore building designed by Alvar Aalto. madoken.jp/series/39454/

Combined axonometric and section drawing showing the windows and the bookshop below.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 13

Colour photo:
Elie Nadelman
Woman at the Piano (c. 1917)
Painted and stained wood
35 1/8 x 23 1/4 x 9" (89.2 x 59.1 x 22.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York. © Estate of Elie Nadelman

It's a stylized wooden sculpture of a woman in a long brown dress playing an upright piano. Her hair seems to be done up under a bonnet and her neck and face (but not her hands) are painted white.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 10

Meadow in progress

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 8

Photos of the riverbank by
Michael J. Crosbie

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 8

Photos of a Plečnik staircase in the Central Market by Domen Grögl and Jana Jocif

Colour photo of an expressively detailed spiral staircase.

More recent photo showing a market worker climbing the same staircase. There's a bit more context visible.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 8

Jana Jocif photo of a Plečnik's riverbank works in Ljubljana www.architectural-review.com/essays/revis...

Colour photo of a riverbank path with four shallow stone steps / seats all the way along it. There is a row of trees and grassy bank behind the steps.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 8

I think this particular one, the Lello, is more stylish and designed to appeal to someone who wants an appliance that is "the business", that looks professional. A savvy consumer should see through that. It actually appears to have some design flaws. www.seriouseats.com/the-best-ice...

Exploded view of the Musso Lello (https://omcan.com/parts_breakdown/58178_parts.pdf)
via https://www.reddit.com/r/icecreamery/comments/1ofxva0/parts_diagrams_and_electrical_schematics_for_the/

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 7

The top example of a fencepost error in art is Hans-Peter Feldmann's 100 Years. It contains photos of people at every age between 0 and 100 inclusive, hence there are 101 images. www.moma.org/collection/w...

Image of 10 of the photos in MoMA's online catalog

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 6

I saw @edwinheathcote.bsky.social retweet this 1964 Evelyn Hofer image on X, but I'm trying to avoid being there. The sootiest New York image is more glamorous to me than her bleak Dublin photos. I'd say most honest Dubliners, hard up or not, would agree. via www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Photo by Evelyn Hofer: "L train station, New York, 1964"

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 6

Convex and concave Carinated vase Iran ca. 3000–2250 BCE www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Black-and-white photo: "This biconical pottery vessel has a sharp edge around its middle where the two halves of the vessel were joined. It also has an abrupt shoulder and a wide, flaring rim. It is made of grey clay using a potter’s wheel, and decorated with several horizontal registers of hatching."

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 5

I assume you've seen these old NASA maps. The site (Fred Espenak's) is no longer being maintained. From your comment, I'm imagining a world map on which every pixel is colour coded, indicating when it will next see totality.

Diagram of eclipse tracks on a world map, showing the years 2021–2040.

North America: map of solar eclipse tracks 2001–2050.

North America: map of solar eclipse tracks 2051–2100.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 5

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 5

Asako Narahashi, Kawaguchiko, from the series "half awake and half asleep in the water", 2003

Colour photo of Mount Fuji, seen from just above the surface of an ocean swell.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 5

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Painted perspective view of Yosemite valley.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 3

photo by Mathias Klotz "Detalle escalera edificio 20 / Fritz Jaenecke y Sten Samuelson, Hansaviertel / 1961 / Berlin" www.instagram.com/p/DQK6a-zER7N/

A glazed wall with yellow mullions forms one side of a stairwell in a modernist building in the Hansaviertel, Berlin.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 3

It makes perfect sense that clicking on the word "intersex" in an article about how magazine content is gendered should result in an ad for office supplies

A screenshot of a paragraph from a magazine article. "The primary issue with gendered print magazines specifically is that it does publishers a disservice by excluding readers - an obvious problem amid rapid circulation decline. Not only does the idea of a men's publication inherently imply that it is not for women - a draconian concept in itself akin to a Yorkie campaign - and vice versa, but it obviously also isolates those who identify as gender fluid, non-binary and intersex." The word intersex is highlighted in yellow and hovering the mouse pointer over it has triggered a tooltip that says "Viking Direct IE | 500 Sheets Pack Of 5 A4 Vikin... Viking Printer Paper Product Line: Everyday.
Format: A4. Included in Delivery: 2500 Sheets..."

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 3

Came across this very idiosyncratic display font combo for a unisex magazine (Germany's first?)

Article headline in two curvy and contrasty fonts. I'm not convinced.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 2

Cyprien Gaillard Chute, 2026 www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at/ausstellunge... As far as I know nothing is actually being dropped through this chute. There have been MUCH more subversive museum interventions (Chris Burden's for example) but this is... eloquent or fluent or something.

Photo by Timo Ohler of a construction waste chute installed behind the frosted glass facade of the Kunsthaus Bregenz

Theo Honohan@theohonohan· Jul 2