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...
Intermezzo on the Steam Press : The Music of Diego Stocco
Most likely, Diego Stocco will either inspire you or make you feel like a totally boring and uncreative slug. As a composer/musician, his instruments of choice have included a tree, sand, a piano on fire and the contents of his local drycleaners, ...
A Mouthful on the Preserve Toothbrush
Last Christmas, I discovered a Preserve toothbrush in my stocking. I can get close-minded when it comes to changing my routine but this arrived at a perfect moment; I had already concluded that all non-electric toothbrushes work basically the same...
Murray Fredricks : Photography
Last month's National Geographic Photo Journal section featured a selection of photographs taken by Murray Fredricks over the course of several annual trips to Lake Eyre, a "flat, arid salt sink in Australia with only the horizon to define its 3,7...
Wish List Item: Digital Time-Lapse Camera
While browsing the Interwebs, I came across the Digital Time-Lapse Camera from Photojojo. Its sole purpose is to take digital time-lapse video, with settings for 1 minute, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours or 24 hours, and is supposedly hardy...
Postcardly : Follow Up Review
Update! Postcardly has changed its template system so square photos will not be cropped. Instagram lovers like myself can now Postcardly away knowing our precious compositions will be replicated in full, as in the example above. See the comments s...
Ryantown: Paper Art and Beyond
Today's Remodelista Daily features the work of British artist Rob Ryan who specializes in paper art done in a fanciful, loose style. He has a store front in London and a virtual Etsy shop where you can purchase original laser cuts and screen print...
Judging Food by its Label: Renee Walker's Nutritional Info Revamp
In the California College of the Arts September e-letter, I read about MFA in Design grad Renee Walker who won first place in ReThink the Food Label, a competition co-sponsored by Good and Berkeley's News21 fellowship. As part of her graduate work...
Postcards: Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Project at LACMA
125th Anniversary Coke Cans: Nostalgia at Work
For Coca Cola's 125th anniversary, Peter Gregson designed a series of six cans based on Coke's ads and posters circa 1930-40. Looking at them slips me into a reverie about pulling an old fashioned shorty glass bottle of Coke out of the fridge in m...
Rock Paper Scissors: Congressional Edition
In his NYT column Abstract Sunday, illustrator Christoph Niemann suggests some supplementary hand gestures Congress can add to Rock Paper Scissors in the hopes of promoting conflict resolution, old school style. See them all here.