23 New Words for Emotions That We All Feel, But Can't Explain

This is SO good.

Graphic designer John Koenig has sought for years to fill holes in language that describe the emotions that we all feel, but fail to communicate.

A few examples:

Sonder:
(n) The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own

Opia:
(n) The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable

Monachopsis:
(n) The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Énouement:
(n) The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Vellichor:
(n) The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Rubatosis:
(n) The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat. (Tina! I IMMEDIATELY thought of Radiolab.)

Read more here: 

I Heart Intelligence | 23 New Words for Emotions That We All Feel, but Can't Explain

Then go check out his tumbler: 
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Unsuck It.

No explanation necessary.



Unsuck It

The Hello Wall.

If I were to write a crime novel, I would SO use this as a plot device to help my fleeing protagonists communicate.


Wasted Spaces commissioned London-based artist duo Hellicar & Lewis to develop The Hello Wall.

The installation went live this Monday, March 8th. It uses Twitter to let the public interact with the huge wall projection on Wembley High Road.

Until Sunday March 14th, you can get interact with this live artwork by Tweeting commands to @thehellowall. You can use shapes (triangles, squares, circles), commands (more, less, shake) or just say hello@thehellowall.


The Hello Wall.

Looks like they're looking for another space for it now. Wish we could afford to bring it over here to shine on our office building...

(via the always-fab design milk)

Perfection.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Words.

This is really fun and lovely once you catch on...


Everynone

Eleven Heavy Things.

Miranda July's public art installation in the NY’s Union Square. I love this.





Flavorwire :: Miranda July Makes Art That Requires People

Grammar rule.

The antecedent for "she" in "that's what she said" is generally understood to be "your mom."

Your Mom T-Shirt from Zazzle.com
(from the guys who write the brilliant FakeAPStylebook)

Embroidered poetry paper.

I'm a sucker for anything that looks like notebook paper.

organic cotton fabric 'notebook paper' is printed with classic blue lines and a red rule, complete with (button) holes at left margin. comes with a skein of pencil-colored embroidery floss. we suggest separating the thread into thinner strands for added authenticity.

twine: embroidered poetry paper

a softer world's banner ad.

Detail:


a softer world :: adbook /A Softer World: 529

(via @downrightamazed)

Save The Words.

The Oxford Dictionary wants to save words that have fallen out of favor or been forgotten over the years. So, they're asking people to adopt a word and start using it. This is mine.

Save The Words

(via @thatwhichmatter - my fave wordgeeky twitter feed)

stair porn.

How can you *not* love a blog about nothing but stairs?




stair porn

Bonus: I had no idea what l'esprit d'escalier meant until just now. What a great phrase!

10 mistakes that make you look stupid.

I know MY readers don't make these mistakes -- being gorgeous and brilliant as they are -- but we all know people that do.

Please pass along these handy tips from TechRepublic.com to make the world a better place.

10 wording blunders that make you look stupid

10 flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid

10 mispronunciations that make you sound stupid

p.s. I confess that, for some reason, I still have the lie/lay problem. I've gotta fix that.

(via Andy's Blog)

Is your business jargon a little stale?

Are "win-win", "A-game" and "out of the box" just not "hitting the sweet spot" anymore?

You might want to check out the 212 Degree Blog and put some sizzle back into office cliches.



212 Degree Blog

Too successful and busy to visit the web site? You can also follow 212 on twitter (@212Degrees).

Me, too.

lonelysandwich

(The Nellie McKay link goes here.)

Good advice.

(No, I don't mean YOU specifically.)

twistori

Phrase of the day: "desire path."

Lovely.


Desire Path: A term in landscape architecture used to describe a path that isn't designed but rather is worn casually away by people finding the shortest distance between two points.


Everyone Forever / Words / Desire Paths

(via Noisy Decent Graphics)

Mike Monteiro's word paintings.

Beholder, a marketplace for artists, just relaunched. This gentleman's work caught my attention.




(Be sure to check out the rest of the Beholder site as well. Lots of good stuff.)


mike monteiro : the beholder - a marketplace for artists

The power of words.

Dozens of words in the German language, from "degenerate" to "final solution," have become taboo because of their use by the Nazis. A new dictionary of Third Reich terms provides a guide through the linguistic minefield.

From 'Anschluss'; to &'Zyklon B': New Dictionary Highlights Nazi Words to Avoid - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News

(Image from WW2 Collectibles)

Adolf Wölfli.

After being weirdly underwhelmed by the Martín Ramírez exhibit at the MAM, I was mesmerized/fascinated/blown away by this man's work. I could spend hours on this site.


At the beginning of the twentieth century, Adolf Wölfli, a former farmhand and laborer, produced a monumental, 25,000-page illustrated narrative in Waldau, a mental asylum near Bern, Switzerland. Through a complex web of texts, drawings, collages and musical compositions, Wölfli constructed a new history of his childhood and a glorious future with its own personal mythology. The French Surrealist André Breton described his work as "one of the three or four most important oeuveres of the twentieth century". Since 1975, our aim is to make Adolf Wölfli's work known through one-man and group exhibitions as well as publications.





Adolf Wölfli

NYT's buzzwords of 2007.

I love words. And this list is quite funny.


All We Are Saying - New York Times