Art, Finance & Travel

They Draw You Out by Thomas Doyle.

Thomas Doyle is a New York based artist that makes amazingly detailed miniatures. Growing up I would go over to my Grandpa’s house where he had installed a really elaborate model train layout in the second floor with miniature landscapes. I’d spend hours watching the trains drive around on their tracks and imagining real events happening in the scenery. To be sure Doyle’s works are a bit darker in subject matter than my Grandpa’s train layout. There is something about the texture of miniature trees that I can’t get over.

Left: Northern Cardinal print from Josh Brill. Right: Austrian Ski Lodge travel poster from Boston Public Library’s Flickr account.

Next up from the internet, a series of beautifully simple prints of birds by artist Josh Brill in a style that reminds me of advertising from the 50s and 60s. Which brings me to the Boston Public Library’s Flickr account. Specifically the section of 300+ travel posters (via Design Observer).

Screenshot of How the Giants of Finance Shrank, Then Grew, Under the Financial Crisis infographic from the New York Times.

Infographics. This is an interactive tree map of the financial sector since October 2007—when the market was at its peak—through mid September. The format seems way more informative than bar graphs or line graphs because it really shows the shrinking of the economy by using the size of the original rectangle to show just how much money has been lost. But lost to where, maybe just disappeared. (via Infosthetics)