Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they’re boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says ‘Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed’ – because he likes you anyways. He’ll tolerate your junk.
“Reading Brazen, French artist Pénélope Bagieu’s cartoon celebration of rule-breaking women, I kept thinking about the feminist uses of cuteness,” says critic Etelka Lehoczky. “Not kittens-and-puppies cuteness, but the kind of cuteness associated with femininity — and not, usually, with feminism.”
Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV + Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute
MVRDV in collaboration with local architects TUPDI has completed the Tianjin Binhai Library, a 33,700m2 cultural centre featuring a luminous spherical auditorium around which floor-to-ceiling bookcases cascade. The undulating bookshelf is the building’s main spatial device, and is used both to frame the space and to create stairs, seating, the layered ceiling and even louvres on the façade. Tianjin Binhai Library was designed and built in a record-breaking time of only three years due to a tight schedule imposed by the local municipality. Next to many media rooms it offers space for 1,2 million books.
Optica is a clean and simple theme with tons of customizations. It sounds impossible, but it’s true. Layouts, colors, fonts: Everything is up for grabs. Optica can transform into anything you want—as long as what you want is a blog.
Overview
Clean, versatile theme for any kind of media
Grid or column layout
Customizable colors, fonts, links, and all that other good stuff
Documentation
Header Image
If your avatar is a picture of your face, your header image is what you see when you close your eyes. It should say, “yeah, this is who I am.” Or at least what your blog’s about. If you don’t like the way the header image looks on your blog, you can play with the “sliding header” and “stretch header image” settings or turn it off altogether.
Avatar
Since your avatar is the most familiar part of your Tumblr appearance, we thought it’d be nice to include it on your blog. But if you don’t like it, that’s cool too. You can hide it from your blog settings and it’ll only be used on the Dashboard.
Blog title design
There’s something like 12 trillion different combinations of fonts and colors. Play around until you land on one that’s all yours.
Background and accent colors
There are no wrong colors.
Disqus shortname
Built in. Easy and fun!
Google Analytics
No code tweaks. Just plug in your Analytics ID and you’re off to the races.
