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...
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. “Mailbox! Open Mailbox!” I know this is super old, so old in fact that I’ve watched it before, but this is good stuff: Font Conference at College Humor. Who doesn’t love a good font joke? Though, I think it was going a little too far having...
I was searching for something to post here on the ole blog for Etsy Tuesday (which has apologically been on a few week hitatus for no good reason), just typing ‘helvetica’ in the search, knowing something awesome would come up in the results. And boy, did something awesome come up in the return: the Ode...
One of my most favorite things in the world are Flash elements that just simply do their job. Elements that can wow you with just the ultility of their design, the ease of use, the power of the simple functions. And most of all, I love when these things are free, downloadable, easy to maintain,...
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...
Impasse from Reel 13 on Vimeo. I don’t even want to set this one up it’s so good. You’ll want to watch it again. Cheers!
Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard – Slides in 3 Minutes from Carsonified on Vimeo. This is amazing. There are just some things in life that make me so jealous and excited, all at the same time. Video by Mike Kus. Found over at Photolab
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...
I haven’t? Well, I have, but let me tell you a little more: I had never heard of Chris Merritt before I went to one of his shows instead of roller skating like 10 sec before I graduated from college. I went because all my guy friends were going, and he came highly recommended by...
(marc johns) Share Some Candy is a little online space for artists and illustrators; its “a curated collective of inspiring design finds and art. the content is appropriate for all audiences – 9-99. criteria for inclusion are finds that are universally inspiring, beautiful and thought provoking.” They have all types of gooey art goodness, all...
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...
Ok, here’s the deal: it would be super easy for me to automatically take the low road and make fun of this movie like a lot of people because of the obvious ‘trite movie flaws’ it may have: Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Austin Texas, Weezer in the trailer, etc. But I won’t, because this movie...
