Well, hello. How have you been?
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.
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...
Love Your Fellow As Yourself : Threadless T
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.
WOW: Monsieur COK
Wow. Just wow. Monsieur COK is a short French film illustrating the struggle between capitalism and communism, labor and money, automation and human labor. Visually stunning and groteschly real, this is a fantastic yet somewhat scary look at the industry that drives our lives, wars, and world. Watch it online. Fantastic! (Found via NotCot.org)
art / cool new stuff / design / Illustration Thursday / internet / things I love / tools / Vintage / web design
WOW: Odosketch
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...
Web Tools : Baseline
What a super cool tool: Baseline is a web development kit that emphasizes, well, using the baseline to create clear and well-designed layouts. It’s free and gives you a ton of CSS and templates all ready to go, including forms and design on a strict grid. This super awesome idea was put together by ProjectUrbain,...
Web Wednesday : Brand New Redesign
Take a look at who recently redesigned their site and the changes look amazing: BrandNew the blog that discusses idenity and well, branding, has put together quite the fancy redesign, moving everything to the center rather than the left, and incorporating some pretty awesome textures. If you’ve never been to BrandNew, you haven’t lived. They...
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...
Pretty Blog Design : Smashing Magazine
For your design enjoyment and inspiration, Smashing Magazine has 50 New Beautiful Blog Designs that really are, beautiful. Some are simple, some full of rich textures and collage elements, and some that gracefully achieve a pretty design. Check them out for sure! PS: Additionally, most of these blogs serve to inspire or share on their...
WOW : Typographic Paris Linocut
This is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. Over at Design You Trust, Mark Webber has spent 6 months planning and creating this linocut of the city of Paris. AMAZING: Look how humongous this thing is! My sort of emphasis in college was printing making, and I’m just saying, this is some...