Paul Rand

Whilst were on the subject of headstones, the Swiss modernist Fred Troller's memorial for the influential Paul Rand is quite an unusual piece. The headstone is made up of two cubes with his name and life dates chiseled on the top cube, and the bottom cube inscribed with Hebrew (unsure as to what that says).

Anthony H Wilson

For many people Anthony Wilson will be remembered mostly as the founder and manager of  The Hacienda nightclub and one of the founding members of Factory Records. Since his death in 2007, it has been three years but that doesn't seem too late for Peter Saville and Ben Kelly to pay tribute to their friend and collaborator.

Via Creative Review

Iraq War Logs

The leaked Irag war logs provide a shocking account of Civilian casualties, US authorised tortures and murders by the Iraq police mapped using Google Fusion tables.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/interactive/2010/oct/23/wikileaks-iraq-deaths-map

Willy Vergineer

Willy Verigineer is an Italian sculpture who creates amazing human figure sculptures which have a real sense of character for an inanimate object, brought to life by the added colour.

Glass Microbiology

Some amazing sculptures being used to broaden our knowledge about disease. Beautiful but when you know what they represent, quite chilling.

"These transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena. Jerram is exploring the tension between the artworks' beauty, what they represent and their impact on humanity".

More at http://www.lukejerram.com/projects/glass_microbiology

Just one glass

This strangle looking red wine glass was featured at the Korean Design Week 2009. The device consists of a bulb shaped container with the glass below. When the amount in the glass decreases, a constant amount is poured from the tank into the glass, never overflowing from the glass because of air pressure and water pressure.

Some other pretty kool things over at Kyouei Design

O.Ont

For a spacecraft it's a little bit different, but that perfect once in a lifetime photo rarely comes for most people. Maybe you've had it but missed it because you left your camera at home, or maybe you were just too slow. I'm talking about the kind of photo that you can look at all day and never get bored of it. Maybe its the shot that will make you a small fortune one day.

The iconic photo of O.Ont as she runs naked down the road after being severely burned on her back after a napalm attack is a prime example. The Pulitzer Prize winning photograph taken in 1972 by Nick Ut, it shows the horrific civilian casualties suffered as a result of the Vietnam war, a scene rarely seen by the rest of the world.