Friday, April 11, 2008

Time Magazine's: Design 100

Today's Most Influential Design
Great design is no longer reserved solely for museum-worthy products, as multitasking designers turn their attention to everything from books to artisanal food, and from lighting to transportation.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

This book cover is fun!
Love the 'alternative' approach to type.


Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Top 10 Sites for Designers

Blue C
An ad agency based in Orange County, CA.

CreativePro.com
Educational and inspirational site for designers (print and web) and photographers. Strong how-to tendencies.

Design and the Elastic Mind
This fascinating MoMA show explores the intersection of science and design.

farshid monfared
Monsters and other creatures from Iranian illustrator Farshid Monfared.

Happiness Factory
With the Happiness Factory, the Coca-Cola website turns an animated TV ad into a series of engaging interactive games.

Idea2Dezign
This visual culture blog is a showcase of websites, designers, design tips, ideas and resources.

MAGROUND landscapes
MAGROUND is a picture agency for landscape, urban and background photography. The high resolution images are optimized for the use in advertising and CGI.

Nikolay Saveliev
Stunning portfolio of New York City-based designer Nikolay Saveliev.

SuperKonductor
SuperKonductor.com showcases the screen-printed posters of Chicagoan David R. Head, Jr., as well as blog posts about visual culture and a calendar "to-do" list of upcoming art events across the country.

Tacos al Pastor
The art and design of Joel Martinez.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Travelers Insurance-Delivery

A dapper man and his 35-foot umbrella come to the rescue of all they meet on a whimsical trip to the city. An umbrella for all season.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Retouching: Photoshop Bliss

Check out these sites
(some will let you roll over to see the original, then the modified):

Friday, March 14, 2008

Tiger Beer

Beautiful prints that embrace the heritage of the 76 year old brew.





Skittles PiƱata

New ad for Chocolate Skittles, bizarre. He's just like everyone else.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Candy Magazine

This is an extravaganza of stellar
design, illustration, photography and fashion
and you can download part 1 of the new issue of
Candy for free!
60MB and 157 pages of pure inspiration.


Coca Cola: Inspiration

Weiden+Kennedy/Amsterdam viral videos to show that Coke
'is happiness in a bottle'



Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Keith Richards for Louis Vuitton

Wowwww... this is different, never saw this coming.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Schweppes: Burst

slow motion balloons, so beautiful... love slow motion and the music :-)

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Thomas Woodruff's: Freak Parade

a beautiful book filled with amazing typography and illustration.. delicious!


Thomas Woodruff’s Freak Parade is a sequential series of 32 large paintings, created with both exhibition and book form in mind. Mr. Woodruff’s paintings are major endeavors of delicate detail that resonate with many layers of meaning and levels of activity. Like an onion, small worlds unfold from within larger ones inside his complex and ambitious compositions.



Wellcome Collection: The Heart

"The Heart" exhibit nestled in London's The Wellcome Gallery visit:

Here, visitors the world over can glance at the importance of the organ from not only the obvious medical standpoint, but in art, literature and pop culture. Click the hotspot found on the mural-spackled heart on the homepage, then watch it unfold into a tiled gallery with each window offering everything from video footage of speeches on the heart, detailed paintings of the organ, images of heart patients being helped and so forth.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Animal Planet: Anthem

This is so fun, Animal Planet gets more edgier... love it! Great Music.

Monday, March 3, 2008

80's Type Party

The new video for DVNO by French superstars Justice is a full-on gradient chrome
’80s type extravaganza. Directed by the brilliant Ed Banger
records impresario So Me.