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if you’re unfamiliar with the situation, read this to catch yourself up. in olden times, if you wanted to take on a giant corporation, “punch them in the virtual face” was not among your possible courses of action. you could resign yourself to it, or engage in a legal battle against their legions of lawyers, [...]
photo by Tien Mao
being the maker of things that i am, this excerpt, “i, pencil,” from leonard read’s “anything that’s peaceful”, does a masterful job of describing just how much of a community project making just about anything is. if you’re interested in the making of stuff at all, this is well worth a read. it is indeed [...]
well, at least he was wrong in 2001, and if he hasn’t changed his mind on licensing yet (which i haven’t been able to verify), he still is. these “ten things i have learned” by glaser have been circulating around twitter a bit. in thing #10 he discusses what if designers were “licensed.” the last [...]
i found the work of matt lehman very inspiring this morning. even makes country music look cool.
ya know, for all of the grief that UO gets for stealing people’s artwork, it’s super cool of them to use their clout to promote artists in this way. way to be, urban outfitters.
the demise of print is topic that has had at least somewhat broad discussion among graphic designers since the web continues to grow and grow. yes, print is shrinking/will shrink more in it’s use, but it’s not going away, and i think we may even see a digital “backlash” to a certain extent. following are [...]
below is the newly completed logo for an architecture/furniture and home decor fabrication shop in brooklyn. they wanted to convey the idea of collaboration producing great ideas. they also wanted to have a very distinctive image and word mark, so we custom designed the typeface as well. more work is being done for datf, and [...]
here are a couple of pieces i’ve been wanting to show for while but are unpublished as of right now anyway. you can go see ‘em nice and big and read about ‘em on flickr.
i look back on most if not all of my work from school and think, “this is pretty bad.” not that i didn’t learn, or that my professors were inept. infact, i’d like to take this moment to thank them for being as gracious to me as they were, poor as my work was. but [...]
every once in a while one comes a cross a designer that makes one say, “oh NO! i’m gonna have to stay up late every night for the next month and a half to improve my design skills.” jessica hische is that designer. oh look, she also has a blog. super. it’s gonna be a [...]
the best part design blog is a fine addition to any blog, so i added it to mine and thought you should know about it.
so i came across this greeting card and had to post. very clever.
and what better way to package then with packing tape? brilliant album packaging from brussels’ pleaseletmedesign.
erik jonsson is a very talented designer living in brooklyn, ny right now. another one of the young guns that i like to feature here at live from bklyn. but enough yakkin’ from me, below is a great interview that erik was kind enough to give. very thoughtful and intelligent answers. dc: hyper island and [...]
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 [...]
this one’s mainly for those of us who live in the nyc area, but if you’re having a hard time getting your design fill, visit 8 days a week and you can find enough design events to consume til you burst. thanks again to tim french for the link.
so i’m bending my own rules a bit to discuss some great new music that i came across, but they are my rules, so i suppose i can do what i want with them. so gileah and the ghost train. if i had to sum up gileah’s music with one word, it would be haunting. [...]