Collective Perception and the Art of Looking Sideways
Today I stumbled upon this amazing website through someone at work. The site describes itself as
(..) an excerpt of SpaceCollective.org, a soon to be
released, invite only information exchange dedicated to the future of everything.
So far it is a very rich combination of pictures, graphics and quotations with great information concerning many of the topics that might of great interest to a lot of people, among them technology, design, physics and biology.
The layout is very innovative, with a modernist, rigid grid, which is deconstructed in a captivating way, all done in meritorious HTML (although with some intense help from JavaScript).
But what caught my attention the most was the uncanny resemblance between website and Pentagram’s Alan Fletcher’s book, The Art of Looking Sideways
The thousand-page tome is a precious collection of quotes, curious information, graphical experimentations and visual comments on a huge variety of subjects such as aesthetics, humor, curiosity and the human brain, among many others.
Fletcher writes that he has a necessity to acquire stuff. The books is a compilation and extrapolation on many concepts and information he has been collecting over his life, and decided do put together in the book. It’s an endless source of interesting information, insight and inspiration — probably one of of the best books I ever bought.
Finding Collective Perception brought me back the feeling of flipping through Fletcher’s book. But with the priceless difference that the website is growing, with even more up-to-date concepts and information, while hinting with the possibility of user contribution, which would be great.
* The picture above is a reproduction of a print by German artist Eno Henze, which has great work by the way, found in Collective Perception.
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