Look how run-down this old blog is. When was the last time someone dusted around here? Or cut the grass? Is that an old moldy sandwich over there? gross.
So, as an avid fan of his books, I just finished Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman, the man’s recent essay collection. The collection is very good, providing something a little more than previous works with essays that reflect on our need for recognition rather than just simply how our love lives are ruined by...
As previously expressed, one thing that I absolutely love is typography in video, whether it be movie titles, television bumps, etc. I Love TV Intros is a online collection of just that-tv show intros, organized by decade and alphabetical(!). I get really nostalgic about my childhood tv favorites, so this was just a real treat...
So a few weeks ago, I was at yet another library sale in town, and found an old VHS copy of “How to Succeed in Business…,“ a 60′s Broadway musical starring a one Robert Morse. It follows the metoeric rise of a young man from the mailroom to the board room in a matter of...
Look what turned up in my Inbox today: this super awesome typographical tee from Threadless. With a great heavy font and a sweet message, this shirt is great and $18.
There goes your afternoon: My Parents Were Awesome is a great little Tumblr featuring submitted photos of parents when they were young and (most) without kids. It’s a really strange but awesome display of fashion, time, and love of some of the people we love the most. Found via Quipsologies
Wonderwall is interior design firm in Japan that not only has a pretty impressive portfolio of work, but their website is something of which I have never seen. The site bubbles and moves with every roll over on the front utilizing Flash and presents information and interactivity in a very refined yet fun way. As...
News in the design world is that Font Bureau, one of the largest type design companies in the country, are taking NBC to court for the unlicensed use of several of their popular fonts. In a suit for ‘no less that $2 million,’ Font Bureau indicates that NBC used Bureau Grotesque, Interstate and Antenna on...
So brace yourselves: The iconic Yale University Press logo designed by Paul Rand is going off the press and spines of the company’s 8,000 published books a year. The 100+ year old publishing company (which just sort of recently actually became a part of the University officially I think) is changing its logo to establish...
This is amazing: Odosketch is a super great online sketching app that allows, well, you to sketch using a variety of brushes and colors. The brushes act sort of like pastel crayons and allow for some really awesome things. They also have a gallery of creations from other people, some of which are really, really...
Hey, let’s go to the movies… This looks awesome! Like the Helvetica of advertising. I took an advertising class in college and have a friend who works in the field. It just seems too hyper-maniacal when it comes to the creative demand of the field, but I think it really would be thrilling, maybe for...
Keith Lang over at UI&us I think is on to something: rounded rectangles and why we might love them more than we realize. Looking at the history of Apple software/hardware and speaking with a professor of visual understanding, the rounded rectangle might be the best because it easier cogniatively on the eye. Very interesting stuff!...
