Links on Art and Design: A digest of short items from Twitter and other sources

Some interesting links and short items on Art and Design from The New Modern twitter stream and other sources.

Architecture

• President Obama’s new budget would end Save America’s Treasures and Preserve America for lack of “metrics.” [read]
• Unhappy Hipsters: A new blog invents amusing captions for stark Dwell mag photos [view] via @KateC
• Mies masterpiece Farnsworth house revisited.  A nice series of photos from @DesignApplause of a wonder of modern world architecture, now managed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [view]

Design

• Hollywood’s computers: NPR looks at the computer screens shown in films that tell a story in a flash of computer animation. [read/listen]
• A blog entirely dedicated to the beauty of ampersands [view] via @swissmiss
• Beautiful, historic, and/or interesting letterheads enshrined Letterheady [view] via @walterolson
• Why did the modernists love sans serif typefaces? [read] via @thinkaboutart & @ColinPeters

Visual Art

• How art affects the brain, a study/exhibition at the Walters Museum [read] via @davetroy
• Niagara Falls… to American art what portraits of kings are to European art? [read]
• A typically lovely illustration by the legendary Arthur Rackham [view] via @ThinkAboutArt & @EricOrchard