everyone should take hiatus
i couldn’t agree more.
texture
“blogs: mad about design” book
the live from bklyn blog was included in this book, “blogs: mad about design.” i’m definitely honored by the inclusion.
if any you have actually been following this blog for a couple of years, you’ll notice that the images included in the book are from way back in the day. that’s when i was first contacted about participating in the book. so, it was a pretty awesome surprise when i received it in the mail yesterday. now i feel obliged to restore this blog to it’s formal usefulness, rather than the breeze shooter that it has become. i have some ideas up my sleeve, and on monday, i plan to launch into the revived live from bklyn with the new thrust.
i did want to mention print and pattern, a blog that is also featured in the book. how i do love brightly-colored, heavy duty patterns.
mcallister wedding poster
last weekend i attended the wedding of melissa and brannon mcallister. as a gift for the guests, they had these fine, fine letterpress posters created by hatch show print.
mark wagner
mark wagner is making his money work for him. check out his extensive collection of dollar bill cut and paste art. he’s also got some other great art mixed in. like this booklyn chapbook cover design. i just got that new york city poems book a week or so ago, and had planned on making a post about it. it’s kinda strange that i stumbled across the book’s artist at random.
lucky brand. . . something or other
when you order chinese food from new hong kong kitchen on grand st. in williamsburg, they put little pieces of cardboard from sliced up boxes between the food, presumably so that your sweet and sour chicken container does not crush your sesame chicken container. and i appreciate that.
last night as i was descending upon my sesame chicken and vegetable lo mein, i discovered this gem. there are three shots, so make sure to click through all of them.
it’s kinda funny to me, because that lettering looks like something that lucky brand jeans would do, and i can see them using chinese characters on a t-shirt or something. still, i’m led to believe that there is also a lucky brand chinese restaurant supply from whence this cardboard came.
at any rate, the lettering and the logo are really quite nice graphically. and i dig how the texture from the cardboard fibers shows through the ink. delicious.
bantjes “design ignites change” poster
good grief. will someone please tell this woman to slow down and let the rest of us catch up? i mean there’s ornament and typography, and then there’s marian bantjes. her penchant for fabulously detailed and intricate ornament is just ridiculous. i give you the design ignites change poster, v1. there’s a v2 on her site too, if you care to browse around to find it.
starbucks perfect oatmeal
oh starbucks, what a quandary you’ve put me in. so many reasons to hate you (like your quest for coffee hegemony), so many reasons to love you. like this tub that your perfect oatmeal comes in. simple, yet ornate. modern in design, classic in production. not only are the ornaments perfect in execution, but you also achieved press ink texture and a thickened ink edge without using mr. retro’s permanent press filters. you did it purely. a luxury that so many of us dream of, but alas, have no budget for. the oatmeal was right tasty too. curse you starbucks! and bless you too. i’m so torn.
mr. retro permanent press filters
i usually fancy myself a design purest, meaning that i think it better to achieve a certain processed look by actually using that process, rather than simulate it digitally. but i must say, i am quite taken with the effects of the mr. retro permanent press filters. i don’t like digital simulations because it’s usually easy to tell that it is faked. but these filters are really quite convincing. i think i’ll go so far as to say that i love them. yeah, i love them. thanks to tim french for the link.
mystery whale
a few days ago while using the ever-handy stumble upon tool bar, i came across the above image (click header). unfortunately, the image isn’t anywhere to be found on the actual website (zee.com.br) with any sort of corresponding info. i’ve scoured the web looking for the source of this mystery whale image, because i love the wood textures used and i think it would look super in my young daughter’s room if i were able to purchase a print somewhere. but alas, i’ve only come across this fellow, who links back to zee.com.
if anyone knows of the origins of this marvelous piece of work, please let me know. i will make you the live from bklyn hero or heroin of the day.
