Andrej Glusgold
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February 2008 Archives
February 1, 2008
February 4, 2008
The history of Visual Communication
Yet another succulent video from Arcade Fire
Boris Artzybasheff cover art from Richard Henry Little’s 1929 'Linebook'
Jason's Drawing Journal
February 6, 2008
Murakami Revoked
From the LA Weekly comes this terrific anecdote.
Last December, a massive billboard went up on Melrose Avenue to promote the Murakami exhibition at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art. Not long after it went up it was tagged by Augor and Revok of MSK and Seventh Letter Crew. Less than 72 hours later the entire tagged billboard was gone.
It turns out that, after seeing a photo of it on the internet, Murakami himself liked the tagged billboard so much that he had it removed and shipped back to his Kaikai Kiki studio in Tokyo.
Stefan Sagmeister: Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
Cover from Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister
Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far is on show at Deitch Projects until Feburary 23. Sagmeister窶冱 full list of 20 maxims are as follows:
1. Helping other people helps me.
2. Having guts always works out for me.
3. Thinking that life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
4. Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.
5. Being not truthful always works against me.
6. Everything I do always comes back to me.
7. Assuming is stifling.
8. Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
9. Over time I get used to everything and start taking for granted.
10. Money does not make me happy.
11. My dreams have no meaning.
12. Keeping a diary supports personal development.
13. Trying to look good limits my life.
14. Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
15. Worrying solves nothing.
16. Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
17. Everybody thinks they are right.
18. If I want to explore a new direction professionally, it is helpful to try it out for myself first.
19. Low expectations are a good strategy.
20. Everybody who is honest is interesting.
Shop America. Midcentury Storefront Design 1938-1950
Makenosound
EEEEEs
tuscan wood type, at Bowne & Co.
Charles Gatewood
Charles Gatewood photo exhibition in San Francisco
Ghana Movie Posters
February 7, 2008
Videotape
When i'm at the pearly gates
This'll be on my videotape
When Mephistopheles is just beneath
And he's reaching up to grab me
This is one for the good days
And I have it all here
In red blue green
You are my centre when I spin away
Out of control on videotape
This is my way of saying goodbye
Because I can't do it face to face
No matter what happens now
I won't be afraid
Because I know today has been
The most perfect day i've ever seen
I think I am the last one in line sometimes…
Thanks John
February 8, 2008
Kossin
February 11, 2008
kosmonavt
Giraffes
Dear Readers,
I understand the latest change to prevent hot-linking has caused problems with web based RSS feed readers. I am currently looking into a solution for this. Due to a busy work schedule this may not happen today, but rest assured it will be fixed.
Cheers
Monoscope
New note: New Graphic
74 Soundsystem
ROGUE STATE DESIGN - ZAK KAPLAN
February 12, 2008
Peele Lemos
Sans Giraffes
I think I got the Google Reader thing fixed.
Let me know if there are any other trouble spots.
(Note: you may need to clear your cache)
Thanks
//M
Aaron Pou: Print Design And Industry
bookhou design: dandelion linen bag
Vanity Fair does Hitchcock
24 Music LP Covers
Victrola Favorites
February 13, 2008
Malin Lundmark: bone china pendant lamps
Ben Pearce
No idea if Ben Pearce actually did these, but cool just the same
Via Preik
Fantasy League Typography
Swarm Behavior
Via Boing Boing, sort of
February 14, 2008
Take our hearts, please.
She said:
"We try to discourage them from cutting out pink hearts—"
I said:
"No. No. No. Don't discourage hearts, encourage them. Valentine's Day is the celebration of pink and red hearts. Embrace the cliché.
"LET THEM CUT HEARTS."
Dockera
Via FFFF
FY to the I, Link post FFFF not so safe for work
February 15, 2008
Gumball 3000
February 19, 2008
martha stutteregger
via_grafik
Harmonie Interieure
Via Coudal
Charles Addams
Wembley Neckties print ad, 1953
The Hell Fruit by Lawrence F. Rose (John Russell Fearn).
Via Learning to Share
The Hell Fruit by Lawrence F. Rose (John Russell Fearn). Tit-Bits Science Fiction Library, 1953.
Rodchenko
Boat shed at Holy Island
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
Via MakeNoSound
A sad sign of the times
Frank Chimero
hotdog in cold
Rat like year
Olay advertising
Very smart
February 20, 2008
10 things about politics
Logic Emotion: 10 Things I've Learned From Politics (so far)
1. Personality is just as important as policy.
2. It's better to believe in something vs. everything.
3. Words do matter. The delivery of them matters even more.
4. Positive trumps negative.
5. Authenticity is hard to fake but easy to harness.
6. Leadership trumps politics.
7. The internet isn't a channel, it's THE channel.
8. Influence is contagious—so is hope.
9. You can't force people to like you.
10. Anything is possible.
J'adore la typographie
Via Swiss Legacy
Flag
Un mundo feliz
Giovanni Pintori
Booklet cover for Olivetti typewriters by Giovanni Pintori.
Putting The Base Back In Baseball
Criswell Lappin: So-Cal Fire Poster Project
Posters donated by designers and artists around the globe, posters sold at the So-Cal Fire Poster Project raise funds for victims of the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. All proceeds will be given to the Salvation Army, for the 2007 California Wildfire fund.
The project is modeled after the Hurricane Poster Project, an effort started for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Hugely successful, the project raised thousands of dollars since its inception. Its founder has graciously allowed us to use his model for helping Southern California residents.
Go see it.
February 22, 2008
Keming
Jet Lag
February 25, 2008
The Somnambulists
William Blake, 1757-1827, life mask made in 1823
Edinburgh-based photographer Joanna Kane’s latest book, The Somnambulists, is a series of rather unconventional portraits. While at first glance the images appear to be intimate studies of various sleeping figures they are, in fact, recent photographs of life and death masks that are between 150 and 200 years old.
Meet The World
"We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO..."
The Flags Campaign is a circulating the Earth in chain letters via e-mail.