—Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)

—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007)

—Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)

—Rumi

—Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

—Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)

Copenhagen, Denmark

See more or contribute to the growing collection at the Museum of Selfies.

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—Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970)

(somewhere in the post-apocolyptic North)

“When linguists talk about the historical relationship between languages, they use a tree metaphor. An ancient source (say, Indo-European) has various branches (e.g., Romance, Germanic), which themselves have branches (West Germanic, North Germanic), which feed into specific languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian).”

“Lessons on language families are often illustrated with a simple tree diagram that has all the information but lacks imagination. There’s no reason linguistics has to be so visually uninspiring. Minna Sundberg, creator of the webcomic Stand Still. Stay Silent, a story set in a lushly imagined post-apocalyptic Nordic world, has drawn the antidote to the boring linguistic tree diagram.”

Access the full-size diagram here. (Source).

Seattle, USA

Project Thirty-Three celebrates “vintage record jackets that convey their message with only simple shapes and typography… a personal collection and shrine to circles and dots, squares and rectangles, and triangles, and the designers that make these shapes come to life on album covers.”