Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
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...
To the Cinema! What Dreams are Made of Edition : Fantastic Mr. Fox
We all knew that one day, two of the greatest things in film making–stop motion animation and Wes Anderson–would come together, and the result would be so awesome that the universe of awesome would explode into a million awesome pieces, like stars of greatness, like that scene in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy when...
The Whimsical Works of David Weidman
My dearest blog readers, Remember that time when I didn’t write for a really long time and then I came back and started writing things again and everyone stopped being sad and we because besties once again like the olden days of this blogtown? Remember that? Me too, but you know what I don’t remember? ...
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There goes your afternoon : Paul-Rand.com
Paul Rand, who is probably my most favorite modern designer (well, apart from the Eames), left a legacy of work, theory, and methology that matches no other. He gracefully and bravely changed the way we think about idenity and design, advertising and convention. Basically, he’s the boss. He’s the Charles in Charge. (what?!) Paul-Rand.com is...
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Illustration Thursday:
6 Vintage Illustration Sets on Flickr
I ran out of time putting this together yesterday, so here’s this week’s Illustration Thursday: Vintage Illustrations, especially that from the 1950s-early 1970s, are some of my favorite things. The style, the use of line work, the color, printing process-it’s just all awesome. Anyways, I’ve put together a list of some of my favorite vintage...
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UPPERCASE Magazine
The lovely people up at the UPPERCASE Gallery in Calgary, O’Canada have put together and released their very first magazine, and it looks just awesome. It’s a quarterly issue magazine filled with awesome reading and design inspiration. Oh, how I wished I lived in Canada…. You can subscribe online, with the price a little deep...
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Awesome Idea : MagCloud
MagCloud is a great new(er) site where one can publish, print, and sell your very own magazines for very little money, and this looks like a fantastic idea. The site is free to join, and free for people to buy. You just upload the PDF of your magazine and these guys print and ship to...
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Etsy Tuesday : Neilsen Handmade Physics Journal
This. Is. Awesome! Using discard books and recycled paper, these journals from Neilsen Handmade are handcrafted, collaged, and stitched to make some pretty snazzy pads of paper. I just love the layout of this cover, the title, and that spider web type stitching at the bottom. Fantastic!
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Illustration Thursday:
“I Can Read Movies” Book Series
Mitch over at SpaceSick has created a whole series of AWESOME “novelizations” of movies in vintage book cover style, and they are just great. Everything from Space Jam to Mean Girls to Temple of Doom, these book covers convey the film and a certain quality that you only though you’d find on an old Penguin...
Neue Haas Grotesk
Neue Haas Grotesk would later become Helvetica and would continue to rock my world and inspire design all over the world. Over on Flickr, there’s a great collection of photos showing the sample book of the font from its early years…oh boy, what a find! Cheers!
Side-saddle Wicker Mule Throne
So as you may notice, this is updated (sort of), and the posts below are kind of long. I apologize. I just imported some of stuff my my MySpace blog, so they are a little different format and a lot longer. I’m trying to move to using this instead of the other, so we’ll see...