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September 1, 2007
Trip Print Press
The Barbinator 3000
Mr G and Mattel should hook up
Warner Bro cartoon title card gallery
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Jennie Hancock
Joseph Bellows
Found on The Serif
Great logo
Kako Ueda
September 2, 2007
Clearly no one with a sense of design works there
Dear New York Yankees,
I love you. Let's get that clear from the start. It's unconditional. I loved you when you traded for Ken Phelps I loved you when you finished in last place in 1990. I loved you when George was banned, and still loved you when he came back. So I hope you understand that what I'm going to say is said out of deep embrace than of callous embitterment. I can't be bitter; I'm not from Boston.
So, here's the deal: your all-star game logo, for the final, wonderful year of Yankee Stadium, sucks... more at Brand New
Riccardo Burchielli: DMZ Public Works
Julian Bittiner
Go Go Pogo!!!
I'm learning to share's collections of ephemera are limitless
Lucha: Baby
September 3, 2007
Gillette sponset fotball VM i Spania 1982
Neojaponisme
Book Review: Naoto Fukasawa
Yoshiaki Kaihatsu: Adidas Deconstructed
Right now the Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo is in its full peacockery. How do we get along with these style crowds? Our first reaction isnât exactly anti, we just enjoy watching how Japanese sculpture and performance artist Yoshiaki Kaihatsu playfully tears apart Adidas tracksuits - to sew cute little pets out of them for his GIFT project that was exhibited this summer at Berlinâs Galerie Tristesse. A little bit of fashion deconstructed, please!
JEREMY FISH: Dead Rapper Decks
Design Studio Wire
yee haw industries
September 4, 2007
A Brief Message launches
New webventure by Mr Vinh & Co.
Nuggets of design commentary it seams...
Ray Fenwick: Fuck you and your blog
It's always nice at It's Nice That
Rachel Austin
Her web site here
Zonza Rocking Chaise
Brazilian designer Eduardo Baroni releases Zonza, a rocking chaise made with water resistant wood for outdoor and indoor use. The pieces of wood are united by stainless steel rods and bolts. I like the idea of a rocking chaise instead of a rocking chair.
MARC&ANNA: Moving Notice
Roy Doty
Skinny Laminx: Tea towels
Longo Setembro...
Cuarteto de Nos - Typographic music video
Medium: The House Numbers Project
The House Numbers Project by Stockholm-based Medium combines digits created by 10 different typographers and graphic designers.
Ron Mueck
Via: [well, I forgot, this is so good]
Moir
Accept & Proceed: Audio '06
Aretha Franklin biography
betsy walton
olly olly oxen poppy
Francesca Montanari: Tortoise poster
art noose: 67)
Magneto floor lamp
magneto floor lamp produced by Artifort 1963
September 5, 2007
A Closer Look at Comic Book Design
Roadsworth
Idris Khan
Bruce Mau Design: An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.
1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.
3. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
5. Go deep. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.
6. Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
7. Study. A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.
8. Drift. Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.
9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.
10. Everyone is a leader. Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.
11. Harvest ideas. Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.
12. Keep moving. The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.
13. Slow down. Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.
14. Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.
15. Ask stupid questions. Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.
16. Collaborate. The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.
17. ____________________. Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.
18. Stay up late. Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.
19. Work the metaphor. Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.
20. Be careful to take risks. Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
21. Repeat yourself. If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.
22. Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.
23. Stand on someone’s shoulders. You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.
24. Avoid software. The problem with software is that everyone has it.
25. Don’t clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.
26. Don’t enter awards competitions. Just don’t. It’s not good for you.
27. Read only left-hand pages. Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our "noodle."
28. Make new words. Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.
29. Think with your mind. Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.
30. Organization = Liberty. Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between "creatives" and "suits" is what Leonard Cohen calls a 'charming artifact of the past.'
31. Don’t borrow money. Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.
32. Listen carefully. Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.
33. Take field trips. The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.
34. Make mistakes faster. This isn’t my idea -- I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.
35. Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.
36. Scat. When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else ... but not words.
37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.
38. Explore the other edge. Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.
39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces -- what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference -- the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.
40. Avoid fields. Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.
41. Laugh. People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I've become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.
42. Remember. Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.
43. Power to the people. Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free.
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Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation, 1956
Hasted Hunt presents a unique and never before exhibited set of 6 vintage prints from AARON SISKIND's original 1956 "Pleasure and Terrors of Levitation". Siskind (1903-1991) was a legendary photographer and teacher who made (and kept) for himself this special group of vintage photographs, printed at 17 ﾗ 14 inches, larger than most of his other works.
Url Grey Hot's surfing montage
Strut: old school style
Coop: The Interview
Vintage packaging hottness
September 6, 2007
Historical French Graphic Design
Richard Hollis
September 7, 2007
SHOUT
In Paris
Clock in, clock out, numbers by 12
marc singer: Diplômé: Sans Titre
Design the copywriter's birthday card. They said.
Let's go big and bland
There seems to be a trend of the big agencies redesigning their logos to big and bland. Maybe is says power, but more likely it shows that they fired all the graphic designers.
Rogue Art
Daniel Edlen
September 8, 2007
SHOP GENTEI: USB Wrist band
Key magazine
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Chanel Proportions
Of the many stories, myths, and just all around Chanel lore that i can’t seem to get out of my head yet (expect a few more posts just so i can clear my head)… the one i woke up with that was driving me crazy was that Coco Chanel designed her first Chanel No.5 bottle to perfectly match the shape of Plaza Vendome (where the Ritz is, and where she basically lived… although her apartment for inspiration and taking guests was just behind it on Rue Cambon… but more on that in a few days). They also claim that it is unknown whether this matching shape was intentional… and its not like THEY had google maps back in 1921. So i HAD to check. The designer in me had to know for sure, while the rational part of me assumed the Chanel folks wouldn’t just make something like this up. And as you see, they weren’t kidding. Below, more images… and also some quick pics from the Assouline set of Chanel books they left on my bed… its really fun to see the old sketches of the bottles, and even how they have evolved over the years… but still fit the Plaza Vendome proportions.
Theo Jansen
There's a bunch of quicktime movies here.
Via Taki Flim Flam
Juliette Ober
These are paintings of a fun mod images from childhood. Tey are painted in oils on a glazed tiles.
Reddish: Bathtub chair
September 9, 2007
'Crescendoe' Gloves By Superb
September 10, 2007
signs of the times
The Indo-European Family of Languages
Sweet graph from the Swiss+Miss
Will Pearson
Will Pearson from the UK captures great panoramic land and city scapes.
Eames Lounge Chair 1956 debut videos
The official debut of the Eames Lounge Chair by Ray and Charles themselves on the Arlene Francis "Home" show in 1956.
Via the the everfantastical Core77
Daniel Rozin’s Fabrication at bitforms
Combining a mirror like technology with metal and wood there’s a lot to admire - the experience of seeing yourself reflected in a non traditional material, looking behind to see all the wires connecting to circuit boards and listening to the gears make movement is quite compelling. Bitforms in NY is located at 529 west 20th street.
Via DesignNotes
James Corner and Alex S. MacLean: Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
September 11, 2007
Guy Peellaert
Manshroom
Via Mr G's feed
Lucia Lerner
Intelligent Life
Art. Lebedev Studio: Folderix flash drive
VaVaVaVia Veer
Noah Wilson
Mostly Girls: 1936
Master Chao: Craft with a capital "C"
Master Chao: Chinese virtuouso flat-pattern designer - Boing Boing
It turns out there are still things where Craft, and I use it with a capital "C" here, matters-it's where CAD tools haven't brought about the ability to simulate out our mistakes before we build them. The creation of a flat pattern for textile goods is a good example of a process that requires a Craftsman. A flat pattern is the set of 2-D shapes used to guide the cutting of fabrics. These 2-D shapes are cut, folded and sewn into a complex 3-D shape. Mapping the projection of an arbitrary 3-D shape onto a 2-D surface with minimal waste area between the pieces is hard enough; the fact that the material stretches and distorts, sometimes in an anisotropic fashion, and the fact that sewing requires ample tolerances for good yields makes it a difficult problem to automate. On the chumby, we add another level of complexity, because we sew a piece of leather onto a soft plastic frame. As you sew the leather on, the frame will distort slightly and stretch the leather out, creating a sewing bias dependent upon the direction and rate of sewing. This force is captured in the seams and contributes to the final shape of the device. I challenge someone to make a computer simulation tool that can accurately capture those forces and predict how a device will look at the end of the day.
Yet, somehow, Master Chao's proficiency in the art of pattern making enables him to very quickly, and in very few iterations, create and tweak a pattern that compensates for all of this. It's astounding how clever and how insightful the results can be. And really, the point of this particular post is to introduce you to a person whose old-world skills -- absent computers, all done with cardboard, scissors and pencils -- has likely played a role in the production of something that you have used or benefited from in the course of your life.
Christopher Silas Neal
nathalie lahdenmaki.
Jessica Williams.
Vaughn Sills.
Via dear ada,(as well ast the last 2) instant feed subscription
The Rodder's Journal
Digg Labs Visualisations
Gift Kodak No. 1A
"This is the lovely and hard to find Gift Kodak No. 1A that was made for only one year 1930-31.
The Bauhaus-like motif is repeated on the camera and the enamel and metal inlay on the wooden box. While this camera..."Very m. appeal.ing
One Color Comp
September 12, 2007
Matchbook Museum
blaise drummond.
Hoover, Ultra powerfull
FIFA poster finals
Via Creative Design
Julien Pacaud
Arketype
Typographic video: Jet: "are you gonna be my girl"
enjin
Sagmeister heads up the 500 Kyoorius note
N.B.P.
Departika
De transistor en zijn toepassingen. on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
September 13, 2007
Good design is honest
The October issue of Wallpaper* is guest edited by Dieter Rams, Hedi Slimane and Jeff Koons.
A Soviet Poster A Day
David Carson
BodyText
Hansandfranz: Troja lamp
boxer short clothesline display
Sears Optical
Der Kobler
Another FFFFoundism
Alki1
Record Envelopes
sketchbook crafts: The Canteen bag
September 14, 2007
iniciativa colectiva + francisco miranda
Christopher Silas Neal
By way of the Post Family robinson
Family handyman Chad Post
A great place to be
JAMES GALLAGHER
more Lucia Lerner
Craste animates Guinness
Great ad, watch it Here
mono.kultur: GZA/Wu-Tang Clan: Weapons of Math Desruction
Via Josh Spear
Bjorkbo Summer Cabin
zohar > etchings
The medium changes the meaning, via CP
Posters of the Spanish Civil War
Illustrate Me No More
R.I.P.
gunkanjima
I found this amazing photo essay at The Post Family site. it's the story of Gunkanjima, In 1974 the mining island of Gunkanjima was closed by the Mitsubishi Corporation. A place that at one time housed the highest population density ever recorded. Now, it is a stark ghost town. Saiga Yuji captured moments during the final year of the mine and what remained after it closed:
Richard Colman
Who doesn't love a show in which there is a giant bear holding his own head?
red.house: fusing plastic bag tutorial
Red.House has found a great method of making very durable 100% recycled material over at ETSY labs, basically you just take cheap plastic bags [which I know we all have a hidden stack of] and fuse them together using parchment paper. then sew the edges together and you've got yourself a new tote bag. made completely from recycled materials.
September 15, 2007
Expo suplentes: Cecilia Afonso Esteves
See more of her work at Flor de papel
MIKE KING
FAUNE YERBY
FEED
The Small Print Studios
September 16, 2007
Tativille
Easily one of the best websites I've been to in a long while, Le site officiel de Jacques Tati.
This is the first site I'd recommend sitting through the intro of, it's just that good. enjoy.
Playtime Movie Poster
Nikki McClure at Needles & Pens
Lava lamp, and the box it came in
Olivia Jeffries
The Heat is Closing In,
Gocco print on old book page,
2007,
4.4 x 7.1"
Olivia Jeffries
The Wolf...,
Drawing on old book page,
2007.
4.5 x 7"
September 17, 2007
Schwebende Last
David R Head Jr
Posters at Nursery Works
24/7 logo
gwen terpstra
Free vector art from YouWorkForThem
Thesis on Typography
BBC Radio: before and after
Frank Harmon
Architectural Review: 1970
All City Hustle
Indeed
More here
Tuffy is nice, I like Tuffy, Tuffy is free
100% Chocolates
reminds me of reel to reel tape boxes
Plastic fantastic calculator
Visualising your last.fm listening
great graph
September 18, 2007
Helmut Lang Lament
More: Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
Yet another fine illustration found
Eugene de Salignac
PERSON
Yellowstone: 1938
The Road to Serfdom in Cartoons
statistically improbable decision matrix of fun
Standard Motion
poster for Insound's CMJ showcase "Save The Album"
ISO50: blog
Type in the Toronto subway
Brian Taylor
Back to Books: 1940
The Cult of Leica
Via the Online Photographer
Eat it
September 19, 2007
Gugging
In the 1950's an experiment in psychotherapy with art was established in Maria Gugging, situated 20 km from Vienna. Over the following years studios and research spaces were set up and slowly became internationally renowned: not only as an alternative form for psychotherapy, but also as an art form - today known as Art-Brut.
For the opening of the Museum in June 2006, the corporate appearance was re-designed: the logo's typographic style was developed as an homage to August Walla, one of the most famous Gugging artists, whose work included many typographic and calligraphic elements.
AXENT
PANTONE cotton passport
Pantone for fabrics, go figure
Design camp
Better than Band camp
Creative Review Monograph
Industrial Facility
Ham radio QSL card gallery
dog design
Werbeposter für die Flora & Fauna-Keramikserie
Ausstellungsposter für die Ars Fennica 2002
Typography Kicks Ass
Pascal Blanchet
Lucas et Hayley
scoped out by the SwsMss
"Snail" Espresso Machine Prototype
Happy Pills
I 'spose J&J will sue them too
Aad
Joachim Robrt: daphnee-02
Kate Spade?
September 20, 2007
Barn : Fi McGhee
Fruit Crate Label Art
Visual poetry
CHRIS ENGMAN
Proof that Adobe is turning into Microsoft
What happens when asstard PM's think they know better.
But it certainly covers all their bases, "it's a voice bubble", "but with an eye", "make it glowy, you know, like apple", "yeah, more 3-D, Photoshop supports 3-D now" "more button like" "oooh, I kind of like the little head it makes with an open mouth, wait, will people think it's dead? No just make the color 'Happier'"
and the TM kinda looks like a booger...
...Rant over
Casamento
ian pedigo.
ZZAP!
Jean Bodin's 1693 'Dæmonomania'
Frontispiece and titlepage from French jurist Jean Bodin's 1693 'D詢onomania'- a handbook for judges at witch trials - among the Historical Books at the University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt. "..to punish with the utmost rigor the witches.."
Typography is a grid
Cult Pens Mechanical Pencils
Photos from a Chinese toy factory
There is something really creepy about this
natural historie
September 21, 2007
Crush
The Bible redesigned
catherine griffiths
September 22, 2007
UE Snowboarder
MASH-SF in COMMON
There is an old race car phrase "Run what you brung" meaning, ride what you got, its more important to be a crafted rider then to have a crafted bike. Every rider has a different opinion of what they want in a bike. Andy has been on the same samson he got from e-frame bank 4 years ago for 250$. He has given that frame a great second life. Bianchi pista concepts are popular because they are affordable, light, and strong. About 550$ for a frame, fork, and headset. Sugino 75 cranks never break, we love phil wood hubs, they are from the san francisco area, and have been doing it for like 25 years. A lot or riders use vittoria rubino pro tires on the front and vittoria raundoneer tires on the back. They last a long time, and are smooth in all types of weather. Everyone rides a different seat, everyone uses different types of bars. Risers, bullhorns, drops.
London Kerning
Kaws Vader
Charlie Allen
Tandem boat transport
Self and Others
Flickred by Simon Whybray
The Hidden Persuaders
Flickred by Simon Whybray
#5 of 6
The Economist
Illustration by Geoff McFetridge
Illustration by Non-Format
Illustration by Mick Marston
youyesyoudotnet
When other people smoke to calm their nerves I have taken to whittling down pencils.
Farrow: Pet Shop Boys
Unusual Books & Book Sculptures
(image credit: Selinas Wayne)
Lush Designs
laura cooperman
VSA: Chicago's Olympic Reduex
Almost Cinema 07
Si Scott
Antique Trunk Labels
September 23, 2007
+&-=X 20 years of typo-graphics from the Tokyo Type Directors Club.
Ost trifft West
London Design Festival — On/Off Exhibition
JoanLovesPaper
kitsch JoanLovesPaper flickr
Loud*
NATIONAL FOREST
September 24, 2007
w+k: hondamentalism
Christian Robert-Tissot
Via VVORK
P's & Q's
Via Boing Boink
RBG6
Alternative Motivational Posters : Design Milk
Cha Cha : Mike Krol
Videos for Creatives – Pentagram
Great Interview with Pentagram
House Industries: Model Tabacco
News Gothic reborn: Benton Sans
One of my favorite fonts just got better
one piece: Alexander Girard
Bloesem: Jonas Samson
Light emiting wallpaper!!
September 25, 2007
The Serif: Jean-Francois Martin
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BibliOdyssey: Erik Nitsche Graphic Design
