| Putting joy in design!
This is Aaron Draplin telling a story about a sign. He’s a graphic designer and very passionate about what he does. This clip is an extra from a mini documentary called ‘America is F*cked’. Strong language- mostly lots of F words.
If you like what you saw here, checkout Aaron Draplin’s site.
Many people are completely content with the desktop wallpapers that come pre-installed on their computer. You know the type… those people who still have the classic Apple close up of the leopard print fur photo. But for people (like me) who spend most of their time awake in front of a computer, picking out a [...]
I love fonts. You love fonts. What if all of our favorite fonts were people in the same room… you know US Senate style? If you can’t come up with an image in your head, watch the video below…
Walking around New York City and looking at signage is a thousand times better than even the best typography book. New York is a mecca of type. It’s everywhere anywhere. Up, down, left, and right.
Designer Jason Powers has recently started a Nyctype.com, a blog focusing strictly on typography from the streets of New York City. The [...]
Recently Adidas has been doing all they can to keep up with shoemaker giant Nike. They’ve been releasing everything from multicolored sneaks to co-brand sneakers such as the Lemar & Dauley x Adidas Remix Streetball 08 basket ball shoes in hopes to gain some of the hipster market.
In one of their most recent ad campaign [...]
Brooklyn resident, art director, designer, and illustrator Chad Pugh uses the new Portishead album and Adobe Illustrator to create a tech nerd’s wet dream.
Vimeo, a website which enables users to “connect through video” commissioned Pugh to create the piece as their login illustration. This video is a truncated version of what was 40 hours of work to create [...]
Anyone who’s ever tried to make a clean cut into foam, let alone a clean shape, knows how hard it can be. I just found this interesting video featuring foam cut lettering done by designer John Caserta. Caserta says,
“I spent two semesters experimenting with a hot-wire foam cutter. Using this room-sized machine, I applied speed [...]
I’m not much of a chandelier fan but I think this is really interesting. I’m still not sure I’d hang it in my house. Would you?
The James R. Moder Broadway Linear Crystal Chandelier is old-world, crystal magnificence in a contemporary setting. Crystals hang from both ends of multiple strands that can be wound around the [...]
I’m not quite sure of anything productive you can do with the OE-Cake software, but am sure you will love it! OE-Cake! is demonstration software for 2D-based multi-physics simulation. It is similar to drawing images using paint software. You create objects and can see them move according to the laws of physics.
This software supports [...]
Taking an old abandon manufacturing building and giving it a new purpose, is no new idea to a New Yorker. The architecture firm MVRDV based in Rotterdam have taken it to a new level, in their project Silo Towers located in Islands Brygge, Copenhagen. This project entailed the transformation of two silos for cereals in [...]
The Elastico Bookcase by Arianna Vivenzio, reminds me of the rubber band pegboards I played with as a kid. You know the ones I’m talking about, nails in a piece of wood and a set of rubber bands. You can then make almost any geometric shape possible until the rubber band snaps.
The ‘Elastico’ follows the [...]
Julie Cloutier has created a pretty neat desk ornament. It’s a collection of photos from around New York City, accompanied with a matching color along the bottom. The pieces are not for sale, but you can easily make one of these yourself with some film, Benjamin Moore paint swatches, some glue, and a bit of [...]
I was once impressed by girls who could make cranes and rings out of one dollar bills. I will not laugh in the face of anyone attempting one of those novice dollar origami pieces, and possibly even rob them.
Finding these images inspired me to give it a try. I pulled out my Iraqi Dinar, which [...]
Gazeta Mercantil’s new ad campaign is a shocker to many. It was printed in a Brazilian newspaper with the headline: “Understand the real value of money”. The print ad uses shocking images of money to tout the newspaper’s analysis of the financial market, as well as political and social events
Whether you agree or disagree with [...]
I ran across an amazing Flickr album today. It contains 142 vintage advertisements ranging from the 1950s through the 1970s. I love finding things like this. I’ll spend hours browsing, letting it all seep into my cranium. Did anyone say bookmark?
View the advertisments on the Flickr album. Enjoy!
If you’re like me, then you probably choose your friends and your enemies based on how they present themselves, e.g. their clothing, hair, bright orange Crocs, etc. This method of discernment, commonly called “judging a book by its cover” can be very useful in the construction and maintenance of ones own close-mindedness. [...]
I found the following collection of vintage mass transportation ads while reading Grotesk’s 12ozProphet blog. It’s a collection of “amazing ads from the NY mass transportation from the 40’s to the 60’s.” The magazine used to be called The Subway Sun, and is the predecessor of the now called “Subway talk” that you see in [...]
For the most part I try and avoid free fonts, but I figured I’d make an exception for these three. Subtype has a large collection of original fonts for sale, along with a freebies section. It’s worth a look.
When a robot is made of Helvetica it gets the name Helbotica.
Source: FFFFound
Paul Dean of www.ilovetypography.com has written an extremely extensive article on typography. Don’t waste your parent’s hard earned cash on a boring type class, when you can get all of that knowledge and more for free!
Below is an excerpt:
Our modern English alphabet is a child of the Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet, which evolved from [...]
There’s not much to say other than this is a giant collection of vintage logos. It’s from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes. I’ve included some of my favorites below, but there are tons more. Make sure to checkout flickr page for the whole… oh ya, and bookmark it for future reference.
Sarah King, a UK graphic designer, has customized an apple, pear and banana using beautiful typography. It looks like the fruits may have been tattooed, but I’m still not quite sure. I searched the net to learn more on her customizing technique, but came up empty handed. If anyone has any insight into her process, [...]
You may have seen or heard of The FWA without ever have gone to their site. They’re the guys who put that fancy banner in the corner of pretty much every website that makes you go “Holy shit, was that a website or a movie from the year 3000!!!??”
Whether you’re a web designer, graphic designer, [...]
The New York State Penal code says that the accused’s “malicious intent” to damage property constitutes the difference between a fourth degree misdemeanor charge and other more serious misdemeanor and felony charges for criminal mischief (i.e. graffiti). Practically speaking, this demand to prove destructive “intent”, makes these judges-turned-curators ask a variation of that dusty, old [...]
The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. From there the organization of color has taken [...]
Francisco Guerro, a former magician and co-founder of SnowMasters Inc, watches one of his floating logos – branded Flogos – drift away, above.
Mr. Guerro has developed a machine that can send foamy clouds as wide as 4ft and shaped like corporate logos drifting into the sky. The Walt Disney Company will use it next [...]
1134NYC teams up with NYC Art Toy Brand Thunderdog Studios to release the first ever graffiti based, wall mounted, vinyl toy. Designed by 1134NYC members MINT&SERF, this toy features a pure collaboration, merging their styles to form the iconic ‘MIRF’.
More of a sculpture than a toy, the 9″ long MIRF is rotary molded in [...]
