I find that Chris Kenny's work explains something to me about my personal psychology. In fact, I sort of find his work a kind of therapy for the procedural mindset that's underwritten so much art in this decade. For me, it indicates contemporary resonances from that great period in American intellectual history where being an intellectual involved being a naturalist: drawing, creating taxonomies, etc. From his gallery:

Chris Kenny's three-dimensional "drawings" and collage-constructions are made from fragments of maps, strips of found text, or even twigs: objects or phrases of the same type are mounted on pins and organized in a way that suggests an intention to rationalize the differences between them.

Chris Kenny: 100 Drawings (2001)

Chris Kenny: Map Drawing (2004)

The idea is pretty simple: It's a zero-kerning dingbats font where the characters combine to form modular illustrations. Here, for example, is the string "Design Less Better":

Design Less Better wrought in Roberto Cecchi's Aierbazzi.

Neat!

Here's something a little unusual, to get your week started off on the right foot.

I've already showcased my fondness for illustrator, New York Times blogger, and pixel-enthusiast Cristoph Niemann here on BlogLESS, so maybe it will come as no surprise that I really like the so-called New York Cheat Sheets at his Abstract City blog. Here's a brilliant example:

I wish everybody I knew would detail their day-to-day procedures like like this. Something about reading these is like hearing somebody blurt out a secret that we had all agreed to keep, but that, upon hearing it, nobody remembers why exactly it was a secret in the first place.