Who loved swap cards?

My mother used to collect these

People sometimes collect the strangest things

socks

Photo source: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/taboo/galleries/weird-collections/at/surrounded-by-socks-57811/

Photo source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4162200/Dalmatian-obsessive-to-sell-collection-after-splitting-with-husband.html

Still love collecting pictures

Andrea Jenkins

Aristotle Opera (Works) Printed on vellum by Andrea Torresanus and Bartolomeo de Blavis in Venice, 1483 Opening, Volume 2: Group of Philosophers Disputing by Girolamo da Cremona

Herb Ritts

Birds built a nest in a chandelier on the porch of Annie Brahler. Photo by Holly Abston.

Photograph of a snowflake by Wilson Alwyn Bentley (ca. 1900)

What is Pinterest?

Pinterest is...

A content curation platform which allows you to organise and share web content via images by pinning them into boards

(folders).

You can upload pictures, videos, or websites, pin them using a url, or repin content from other people on Pinterest.

It's a bookmarking site

It's a social network You follow people

Yes, it's addictive

Yes, Pinterest often looks like this

or this

or this

But it can also look like this

or this

Melbourne cafes by Alexander Sheko

or this

or this

Ernst Haeckel

or this

Wonders of the Ancient World - NYPL collection

My Pinterest profile

I use Pinterest to curate...

images for a subject Art history

images for a subject within a subject Urban Art

images for a project -

Year 9 Scavenger Hunt

images for a theme - manhood

images for a concept - connections

images for reading promotion

images for a presentation - Students blogging (voice)

Video collection - Art videos (Gerhard Richter)

not just images, web content

video tutorials

Art Ed project ideas http://pinterest.com/edelacruz/art-ed-project-ideas/

collaborative collections

Best part - the people!

Follow experts to get the good

stuff (Associate Director Metmuseum)

Find a great board and follow the person

Then check out who they're following

Mission: Collect visual examples for Visual Design Communication

You meet some very interesting

people

Collecting, curating and sharing online resources for Visual Communication Design 2013

VisComm Libguide

Graphic Design

Architecture

Architectural drawings

Architectural details

Interior design

Data visualisation

Sculpture - installation

Typography

Perspective

http://pinterest.com/dsgran/perspective/

Photography http://pinterest.com/kasplinko/yamamoto/

specialised interests

Vintage Czech design

Russian Soviet design

O - circular design

starfish embyo. Repinned from Inspiration by Willemien de Villiers

Robert Mangold. etceterablog.tumblr.com Dixon Baxi.nuit-noir.tumblr.com

Photo source: http://media-cache-ec5.pinterest.com/upload/35888128250976941_smc5kWwm.jpg

No, it isn't

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