Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Cylindrical skyscrapers, artistic Greek currency, Google dictionary and more in our weekly look at the web

1. La Cocina Talented artist Sofia Maldonado recently united the Bronx community with La Cocina—a creative afternoon of mural painting and dishes from her native Puerto Rico as part of the “This Side of Paradise” exhibition at the newly repurposed Andrew Freedman Home. 2. Utilitarian Ceramic Minnesota-based designer Ben Fiess makes the packed lunch alluring with his Utilitarian Ceramic, a collection of beautifully designed portable …

Horn Please

Cylindrical skyscrapers, artistic Greek currency, Google dictionary and more in our weekly look at the web

Photographer Dan Eckstein peers into the largely unexplored mobile worlds of Indian truck drivers, and their lives on the country’s beat-up and seemingly lawless roadways. Colorful images of painstakingly ornamented trailer cockpits expose the private lives and cultural interests of men whose safety relies on little more than the power of their horn.

“Google”

Cylindrical skyscrapers, artistic Greek currency, Google dictionary and more in our weekly look at the web

Taking advantage of Google Images’ uncanny ability to capture the zeitgeist of the Internet, UK designers Ben West and Felix Heyes have created a “Google”, a PHP-generated dictionary containing the first image results for every word listed. According to West, “about half of the book is revolting medical photos, porn, racism, or bad cartoons.”