Five for Friday. Signs and symbols that of interest, that are cool, that empower, inspire, and are worth checking out. Five of them. It’s Friday.

1. Paint. A Short Lego Film Painting with Lego. By @CheesyBricks. Link via NOTCOT.ORG

2. Verbalizing the Visual
A textbook that’s a few years old, but a smart and beautiful primer on the practice of translating art and design into words. Author Michael Clark explores the “unstable relationship between language, objects and meanings.”

3. Tokyo Reflections
The New Yorker Photo Booth features the work of street photographer Tomasz Lazar’s, who is “concerned with capturing details that are often overlooked in the rush of urban life.”

4. Hong Kong – Dimensions Of Urban Aesthetics   Hong Kong city in motion, photos by Abdullah Genc.

5. BROOKLYN illustrated map!
Created by Aaron Meshon, as featured in Khool.