Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Friday, August 16, 2013

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

40 days of dating



"Two good friends with opposite relationship problems found themselves single at the same time. As an experiment, they dated for 40 days."

Link

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

365 days of type

"For all 365 days of the year of 2013, I am creating a daily custom numerical font.."

By Sabrina Smelko

Thursday, August 1, 2013

From big screen to screen print

"Earlier this year, London studio Print Club asked 16 creatives to design a two-colour screenprint based on a film being shown at this year's Film4 summer screen at Somerset House."
via Creative Review

Monday, July 29, 2013

Been Everywhere

The Everywhere Project is a collaborative design project that pays tribute to the classic folk song “I’ve Been Everywhere”. 




Sunday, July 28, 2013

Font History? or something like that.








THE (MOSTLY) TRUE STORY OF HELVETICA AND THE NEW YORK CITY SUBWAY
"Helvetica is the official typeface of the MTA today, but it was not the typeface specified by Unimark International when it created a new signage system at the end of the 1960s. Why was Helvetica not chosen originally? What was chosen in its place? Why is Helvetica used now, and when did the changeover occur? To answer those questions this essay explores several important histories: of the New York City subway system, transportation signage in the 1960s, Unimark International and, of course, Helvetica."
























By the way this story and many more in this blog come via the fantastic Swiss Miss

Ten Things To Learn: Milton Glaser


"3. 
SOME PEOPLE ARE TOXIC AVOID THEM.
This is a subtext of number one. There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. Gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the ‘whole’ before you can understand the details."

Read the ten here

Friday, July 19, 2013

SUPER GRAPHIC by Tim Leong

















"For his first book, Super Graphic, due out this August from Chronicle Books, Leong has combined the two forms again, crafting a joyous smorgasbord of comic book data that mashes up super hero stats with graphic design chic." 

Read the interview at The Verge

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Home Exchange

This looks promising, a site where creative can exchange homes, dont know much of the specifics because you need an invitation, check out Behomm