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October 1, 2007

Mateus Acioli



Posteres para shows - Milo Garage (2005 /2006)


Contribui鈬o para a revista (n縊 publicada) - UEEH (2007)

Zebra Drawings


I've been tapped to guest edit the Fresh Signals at CP


So things might slow down a little for October. But to fill your time sign up for the Fresh Signals RSS feed if you haven't already done so. In the mean time, enjoy the archives.

Byrdhouse: McCormick Tribune Campus Center


Inconsolata


Very nice monospace font

via Mr G's del.icio.us

I'm Learning To Share!: Richard Erdoes magazine illustration, 1957


Today's Inspiration: Harry Borgman


magCulture: AArchitecture





Blue Ant Studio: Lune rug


Blue Ant Studio: Eames Be@rbrick


Bloesem: Swallowfield


Mr. Doob



Kick ass flash interactive thing
Via CPLUV

The Kingdom



"First 4 Minutes - Examining the history of U.S. involvement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."

JPG Magazine: yvette roman



Nón lá Hat On Wall, Sapa, Vietnam

Dove: Onslaught

Dove and Ogilvy Toronto have unveiled a follow-up to their huge hit “Evolution”: a new video called “Onslaught,” in which a young girl gets blasted with rapid-fire messages from the media about beauty. (Ogilvy’s Steve Hayden showed the spot last week during an Advertising Week panel on “Passionistas.” Now it’s up on YouTube) It’s energetic and eye-catching, and while it obviously lacks the “wow” factor of the original’s Photoshop montage sequence, it’s a worthy enough sequel. The passionistas will love it. Via Adverblog.

WTF: One more ugly ass logo joins the world


Anamorphosis: Celebrate Water



Celebrate Water is a magnificent communication project carried out by Carrie Hodson-Walker. During her final year at the University of Lincoln, Carrie curated this non-profit social design initiative as part of the final year of her course. She invited several international designers and illustrators from across the world to donate poster designs on the theme, Celebrate Water. Eighteen designers responded and the posters were printed in a limited run in order to raise money for water charity, Just A Drop.

Modernism at McDonald's - Dwell Blog


I can't tell if this is a good thing or bad thing.

Cool Hunting: Rita Design


October 2, 2007

KleinReid :: Birdcages


Spotted over at the DesignMilk

Cody Hudson


ECO


MoMA.org | The Collection | Helvetica Bold, 36 point. 1956-1957


Bloesem: Breast Cancer Campaign


Progress Re-bag


Inky Bacon


EDAW wooden benches


October 3, 2007

Ai Weiwei - Study of Perspective - Tiananmen


dominic bromley: shoal


'shoal' by dominic bromley is a cylindrical shoal of 1,500 fine bone china fish encircling six central fluorescent lights.

Nando Costa


Good quote

JeffCroft.com: Tools do not a designer make

Think about it: do you go to the doctor because of her ability to use a stethoscope? Do you go to an architect because he’s really good with pencil and paper? Do you go to an auto mechanic because he is better with a wrench than you are?

Via the Inman

Armor made from PET bottles


Nice logos


'downtown new york' marcel dzama, 2007


Running around Gotham city shooting type


A page from A French Alphabet Book


More good quotes

How magazine - At The Top Of His Game

"Good design doesn't cost much money. It just needs someone in charge who understands what good design is, and very often the people who are in charge don't care, or aren't aware, or are not educated enough to see that. If you look carefully, you can find some trade magazines that are as beautiful as any consumer title, and it's because they have someone who cares and is allowed to do that."
Luke Hayman

Gianni Sinni


He's got some nice fonts too

Kodalithtic


Die Electric Candull


Juliana Vol. 7


Brooks messenger bag


Everyday Engineering


Busy Beaver Tape


Ken Keirns: Vintage toys as frames


Breuer's 1951 Wolfson House Up for Auction


At the Gates of the Desert



Diana Ketcham's Le Désert de Retz

Fiat 500 logo


Hey Wacom…

My Broken Shoe


Frutiger: Type Sign Symbol


October 4, 2007

Excellent logo


Your Personal Moon


Via CP

Vintage in every sense of the word


The photography of Bob Magill

Candykiller


emily morris.


Boom 2¢


October 5, 2007

World War 2 Pictures In Color


JOSEF MüLLER-BROCKMANN: FORTY EIGHT POSTERS


Misc fodder


Found on FFFFound

Grumm: The Screamer Red


Found on Boing Boing

FokusFabrik


RGB


Playstation 3 software campaign


Robert Horne Paper Co

Shaft!

Isaac Hayes and band rehearse the soundtrack to Shaft.

Found: Brand Spankin New

Acronym Designs


Acronym Designs' Swilken Bench, inspired by a bridge on a Scottish golf course, is made from reclaimed wood and a concrete base. But beauty, as always, carries its price--sitting pretty on the bridge bench will run you $3,500.

East vs West infographic exhibit


PreFabulous


October 6, 2007

VEB Typoart: The East German Type Betriebsstätte










October 7, 2007

Bad Ass: Yamaha Tesseract


MWM vs. Tool Shed.


The Wind : Issey Miyake+Dyson


noted without comment

HLLVTKA


Used Future and Soyfriends


October 8, 2007

Singlespeed Heaven


The Typographic Masonry


Josie McCoy



Quite a nice site too, very well thought out.

On The Streets of Vancouver


HOWL


WtF


Eames Elephant film



It's great

DDB Paris


The international car-free day. By DDB Paris.

Milk


inside the 2x4


MTV Base


October 9, 2007

jodie hurt


poppy always finds the best stuff

Shaun Tan


From good to great


Graphic for School Girl Inferno Review


Alphabet of Endangered Species in the British Isles


Cute Swiss Design?


Jaime Pitarch; Cyclops


October 10, 2007

Mexico '68 posters



Stella!!


El Toro


Pietari Posti


Area 17


Vanilla Cross


October 11, 2007

modern classics alphabet


shotgun chair


October 12, 2007

Rudi Meyer


Rachel Denny


Richard Fenwick


young italian girl likes to imitate olive trees


Via CP

Nathan Stapley


Good Cheap Fast


Indeed

University of the Arts students hack Eames classics


The powers of ten

Great film from Charles & Ray Eames if you've never seen it.

October 13, 2007

An ode to LA

BLDGBLOG: Greater Los Angeles

No matter what you do in L.A., your behavior is appropriate for the city. Los Angeles has no assumed correct mode of use. You can have fake breasts and drive a Ford Mustang – or you can grow a beard, weigh 300 pounds, and read Christian science fiction novels. Either way, you're fine: that's just how it works. You can watch Cops all day or you can be a porn star or you can be a Caltech physicist. You can listen to Carcass – or you can listen to Pat Robertson. Or both.
That's how we dooz it.

Who Does It, What Is It, How Do You Do It?

Experience Design: Who Does It, What Is It, How Do You Do It? - Robin Good's Latest News

There is a lot of talk lately about “Experience Design”. Companies sell experience design, but don’t define what it is. On-line discussion groups debate who the virtuosos of the experience domain should be. Design educators wonder if they should be teaching it. And they wonder how they should be teaching it.

In this paper I will address the following questions:

* What is experience?

* What is experience design?

* Who is creative?

* How do you design for experiencing?

* Who are the real virtuosos of the Experience Domain?

* Does this perspective change design education? How?

Shepard Fairey Interview: Nineteeneightyfouria

Cool Hunting: Nineteeneightyfouria: Shepard Fairey Interview

Many regard Shepard Fairey as one of the godfathers of the modern urban art scene and he's widely known as one of the hardest working men in the business. His Obey Andre the Giant figure can be found all over the world, oftentimes in some surprising locales. Unique stencil, collage, photography and painting techniques have made him possibly the worlds most well-known street artist.

...

In the midst of all his preparation for the show Shepard graciously offered us some time on the phone. Even over the wires, it was apparent that he's a genuine and passionate individual. We had a great conversation...

...

So what is Nineteeneightyfouria and the subtext of the show?
It's about people being in love with war, especially post 9/11. It really scared me how rearing and willing we were to fight, to "hunt them down." With that came a major loss in privacy and a steady movement towards a scene you would find in Orwell's 1984. Surveillance cameras, phones tapped, the whole bit. It's fitting this show is in London, 'cause they have surveillance everywhere.

There is also all this double speak and play on words by politicians that inevitably comes out through my work. You know we could go on and on about this, but you get the gist, we need to change things.

The unbinding


October 15, 2007

KATIE WATERS


Markus Rummens & Jorn de Vries


Michael Kenna


Bond Magazine


An Interview with Lebbeus Woods


BLDGBLOG: That’s actually one of the things I like so much about your work: you re-imagine cities and buildings and whole landscapes as if they have undergone some sort of potentially catastrophic transformation – be it a war or an earthquake, etc. – but you don’t respond to those transformations by designing, say, new prefab refugee shelters or more durable tents. You respond with what I’ll call science fiction: a completely new order of things – a new way of organizing and thinking about space. You posit something radically different than what was there before. It’s exciting.

Woods: Well, I think that, for instance, in Sarajevo, I was trying to speculate on how the war could be turned around, into something that people could build the new Sarajevo on. It wasn’t about cleaning up the mess or fixing up the damage; it was more about a transformation in the society and the politics and the economics through architecture. I mean, it was a scenario – and, I suppose, that was the kind of movie aspect to it. It was a “what if?”

Bamboo/Hemp Cross bike


October 16, 2007

Arena HoM/Me +





It may be the new ugly, but it seems more like old Bauhaus to me

David Dyer-Bennet


A good exercise in proving digital reproduction of photography isn't all bad. Now I have to start looking into the Epson 9800.

By Ctein

My dear, long-time friend David Dyer-Bennet (known to his friends as DD-B) was out here visiting a week back. I invited DD-B, who is another lifelong avid photographer, to bring along some photographs that he might want play with printing on my Epson 9800 printer.

One of the photographs DD-B chose to bring along was one that he had made back in college, in 1975, at the Lincoln Memorial. It had been photographed on 35 mm Tri-X under somewhat trying conditions. The exposure was just barely adequate, the two workers almost fading into the D-min of base + fog.

For as long as I've known him DD-B has been trying to make a satisfactory print of this photograph. He's revisited the negative periodically over the three decades since its creation, striving unsuccessfully to pull a print from it that really made him happy.

Finally, last weekend, 32 years after the image was "captured" he got a print he wanted to keep. Better prints may well be possible, but it's passed the threshold from "this is unacceptable to me" to "I enjoy looking at this." It never had before.

DD-B started with a good quality drum scan of the negative, and I worked considerable magic on it in Photoshop, using the Shadow/Highlight tool and local contrast enhancement via Unsharp Masking. There were a number of local corrections made, some curve reshaping, corrections for keystoning, cropping, grain and sharpness fine-tuning, etc.

But, honestly, precisely how we worked the photograph and who contributed which bits of photographic expertise really isn't important. For all I know, a traditional darkroom worker more skilled than DD-B could have made an equally lovely print. The Epson 9800 certainly eliminated a lot of the drudgery. We were able to produce a gorgeous 20 in. by 28 inch photograph; the last time DD-B tried working with paper in the darkroom of any truly substantial size it involved sponging down sheets with developer on a large table, for lack of suitable tray space.

All that's really important is that DD-B never gave up on this photograph. Few of us would regularly revisit a decades-old neg to see if our improved skills had made what we envisioned for the photograph realizable. DD-B did, and his faith in his vision and his perseverance have produced a rich and evocative image.

October 17, 2007

All plastic-exact scale model


Alley Cats races are gettin all fancy and shit


Samsonite toys


Ashley Wood


The Doomsman


I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome



The gnome adds poignancy to any scene.

I Played Through Episode Two Holding A Goddamn Gnome

Really nice logo


BeST Awards 2007


October 18, 2007

Final Journal Project


Daisuke Yamamoto


1week of art works, via the soon to be betrothed Serif

Dove Evolution Parody

Via the soon to be Photoshop Tennis Star

Alex Ross


Lust


Unidentified Flyposted Objects


B&O Beogram, circa 1974


Via CP

under fog and construction


Sugar's got what it takes


The new MASH/SF DVD comes with a 120 book


October 19, 2007

Armando Testa


Design Supremo


DDB, Paris


October 20, 2007

Build (again)


Margaret Kilgallen


jas sokolovic


October 22, 2007

Jaap de Maat & Tymen Cieraad


:Phunk


DuPont Anti-freeze


It's Madison Time: Ray Bryant Combo, 1960


RUSSIA!!


Rub it down


Branko Lukic


Nice graphic


How to Avoid the Bummer Life


Coat Hanger Gorilla


October 23, 2007

Film is not dead it just smells funny - Photographers - mami koni


Mark Mothersbaugh's Beautiful Mutants book


Toxic paradise

Floating toxic plastic garbage island twice the size of Texas - Boing Boing

"A little-known island continent of floating toxic plastic garbage, TWICE the size of Texas, is growing in the pacific between Califormnia and Hawaii. Officially known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, until it can be taxed, U.S. officials will continue to ignore it. I heard of it once many years ago, but it apparently has been growing tenfold each decade since the 1950's, and now consists of 80% plastic. It has also been called Gilligan's Island, from the trashy TV sitcom that won't go away."

music viva


Small Stakes


avant garde acoustic trio classico


robert wechsler


maxime delporte


all mashed up


Typophile Film Fest 4


Super Mandolini


Super Mandolini

yiran qian


Grumpy old curmudgeon, aka design god

Don't try to be original, just try to be good.

October 24, 2007

ico design


Project 4


Matinee: 1939


green and purple


Blackboard globe


this made me smile #26


Dominic Wilcox: Glove Print


STRATA RECYCLED FURNITURE


Clever Leica Ads


Buro Vormkrijgers


The Wind Shaped Pavilion


October 25, 2007

Typographic Masonry


Soviets in Space matchboxes


October 26, 2007

EMIL KOZAK


Christopher Roeleveld


The Ernie Report


Toying With Japan


Magis


Edward Hopper


"Based on Hopper’s recollections and the painting itself, the rider depicted is very likely Frenchman Alfred Letourner, one of the era’s great six day champions. He won at Madison Square Garden on six occasions, and as Hopper opined, Letourner was indeed the last Frenchman to win at the Garden. The vivid red jersey also points to Letourner, whose customary jersey choice generated his nickname: “Le Diable Rouge”."

Lufthansa Europa Jet


Otl Aicher, E5 team at Hoschule für Gestaltung Ulm


October 29, 2007

douglas witmer


alexander couwenberg


wonder walls


white elephant vintage


Birth of the Cool


DJ Stout :: High Priority


Stephen Doyle


Stephen Doyle, "WAS/SAW Poster," American Center for Design, 1994

October 30, 2007

Corporate Design - Farbheft


Cuba Grafica Show


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