It's T-less than two weeks until the 2012 Presidential election and with the candidates basically tied in the polls, Undecided Voters are having their quadrennial moment. I have never actually met an Undecided Voter???though I suspect that has to do...
Good Ol' GIF
The old fashioned GIF has had something of a resurgance in my inbox. The charmingly retro animations keep popping up in promotional emails, like the one above from CB2. I like getting them; they're engagaing and add a twist of humor and whimsy to ...
Thursday Roundup : Designing Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Design, a website out of San Francisco, attempts to streamline the visual identity of OWS by creating "freely available visual tools around a common graphic language to unite the 99%." The site offers high res graphics for download, includi...
Chip Kidd : 1Q84 Book Design
Chip Kidd breaks down his cover and book design for Haruki Murakami's latest novel 1Q84.
Cindy Sherman for MAC
Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011
Even though it was clear Steve Jobs was battling severe health problems, I was still shocked when I learned that he died yesterday. I didn't anticipate feeling such a great sense of loss at his passing. Aside from the recaps of Jobs' many achievem...
Monday Digest : Questioning Design
??? In the International Herald Tribune, Alice Rawsthorn asks, "Can Anybody Be a Designer?" a question inspired by a crop of current exhibitions which present "the concept of design as a fluid, instinctive process, open to everyone..." Read her arti...
Kettle On Feet Up
Clever riff on the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster???sadly available to Brits only at Hooper and Shaw in Cornwall. Tip of the hat to Remodelista Daily.
Urbanized : Trailer
Urbanized, the latest from documentarian Gary Hustwit (director of Helvetica and Objectified), will be released in November. Poster design by Build.
Designing Around a Hot Potato : The Barnes Foundation Identity
I grew up in Philadelphia with an art-loving father, who frequently brought me ("dragged" would have been my verb of choice at the time) to the Barnes Foundation. In the late 80s, early 90s, the Barnes collection hadn't yet reached the height of i...