{ Now Ain't that the Truth: Architecture School }

I found this hilarious tumblr had to share. Hopefully it will brighten your day, it did mine, but I've been done with school for a while. {via}
enjoy my recent fave...{click for animated gif link}

{ Winx to Linx }

This has been a crazy few weeks, and like always I'm behind on what I'm doing. But I'm in need of sharing my awesome finds of late.

• Swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. Drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. And these are definitely worth the bookmark. These are real shows, and totally reminds me of some of my fave Frank Stella work, and probably needs me to print a few.  
• I knew I wasn't the only one who was noticing handwritten letters, typically from editors, finding it's way all over the publishing world! and even on some of my fave blogs, A Beautiful Mess uses it all the time! Luckily Noteworthy put together a great list of brushes (free!) to download and try, I can't wait to get home and really try these out on my tablet! {via}
• The Creativity Post put together a really great list of 12 things you were never taught in school. I'm not normally a big fan reader of these sort of posts, but I found this one pretty inspiring for the new year and my new positive outlook. {via}
• Fourth Year Studio - a great letterpress company, and former architecture students with me, out of Knoxville is having a fund raiser for Baby Tyson (who is a heart baby of another fellow archy over at Vandy). You can check his inspiring story here. And as a new mother, I have no idea how I would be able to be half as strong as Tyson's mom, but they are so wonderful, and it's great to see how wonderful he has been doing, I'm somewhat addicting to checking his status, and hoping (since I'm not the praying type) he's continuing to do well {to purchase a calendar}.
• Best Movie Posters of 2011 - some definite eye candy in the mix. I'm in LOVE with the Eames one .. of course! also a brilliant documentary if you haven't seen it, it's a must. And I have a serious crush on Cam Archer's film, Shit Year. {via}
• Shrinking Kat - Kat, whom you might remember from previous post, is dieting like no other, and documenting her journey on the dukan diet, the one Kate Middleton supposedly lost all her pre-wedding weight on. I know it's a fad diet, but it seems like one I could get behind, with all these veggies and meats! If you want to follow and encourage Kat's success please click. {via}

{ Takin' it Back Ol' School }

my first textured rendering

or to 2003... when my class was in our second year of architecture school and taking our first computer modeling course. Hooray for this awesome website rediscovery Beth (via Patrick). I was #50, with the Soviet Pavilion! Glad I've come a long way since that! ctm. {via}

{ Duck + Beaver = Platypus? }

Thanks Facebook for this stooopidity gem. She honestly thought it was true, and uses cartoon characters for a science lesson?!? Our poor school children...
Rule of thumb lady but I don't think (as much as some would produce cute results) two different species can reproduce.

{ Hell Freezes Over: Autocad }

I know we've all (well us arch-ys atleast) problems and woes with Autocad on a mac, virtual pc just sorta blows... but apparently it's happened.... it's coming, Autocad for the mac (plays ominous music). Apparently the last time Autocad was made for a mac was back in ol' 1992, 18 years ago... wow. I know friends who have worked at firms that have used software like Archicad and others, god forbid Datacad, but Autocad is the industry standard, especially since the push towards BIM (building integrated modeling) and I think Revit (Autocad owned) is also the leader there. Hooray for all the upcoming architecture students, your life just got a whole lot easier. {via}

{ School Project }

Not to be overly architecture heavy today, but I found this pretty cute school project video. It's a pretty rad diagram and provides a nice understanding of the whole site. The residential section is straight lifting from Unite d'habitation (Le Corb) but other than that, it's a cute info video! and be sure to stay to the end, the daft punk makes it all worth it.