As if digital billboards weren't distracting enough, brace yourself for 3D projection. Initially executed as conceptional pieces (see Urbanscreen video below) 3D projection has been billed by the Dutch company NuFormer Digital Media as the hottest...
Charlie Haden Promo
Striking folksy e-poster from the LA Phil.
Capitol Words: Visualizing Logorrhea on the Hill
There are tons of tag clouds (aka word clouds) out there, lurking in the widgets column of blogs or springing up after a Presidential inauguration. While you could argue that ubiquity has watered down the effectiveness of this method of visualizin...
Issuu + Theoretical Apple Tablet = Magazine of the Future?
Part One: The Ghost of Domino I was crushed when Domino, the glossy devoted to interiors and all-things home, folded earlier this year. But when I read that two members of the Domino team started a new digital magazine called Lonny to fill the voi...
President's Arts & Humanities Committee
Spotted! Anna Wintour, Yo-Yo Ma, Teresa Heinz, Bryan Lourd, Thom Mayne & SJP huddling around a conference table making very arty decisions. Here's the breakdown of the sectors represented by the entire President's Arts & Humanities Committee:Archi...
Poster Post
The new poster for the movie Precious, a refreshing break from your typical celeb-heavy advertising blitz...... by Tze Chun, a multi-disciplinary creative powerhouse. You can check out his latest project, the film Children of Invention, here: http...
Assorted Album Inspiration
Sorted through some old LPs I've been lugging around for ages. Here are photos of some of the more interesting jackets:(back)
Yankee Stadium Cracks Up
via nytimes.com This blog is unabashedly pro-Phillies so my competitive nature influenced this post just a little bit. I don't know about you, but I always like to see some healthy cracks in my latest $1.5 billion ventures. Even better: "The ramps...
The People Chose
Following up on this previous post, the People's Design Award winner is The Lime Bike by Trek.
Mr. Eaves!
Emigre just released a sans-serif companion (or should I say husband? brother?) font to Mrs. Eaves, which is one of my most frequently used typefaces. The new addition includes a Mr. Eaves Sans and a Mr. Eaves modern, both designed by Zuzana Licko...
Fairey Admits Source Material Coverup
An unfortunate development in Shepard Fairey's court battle with the A.P. over copyright infringement. Fairey has claimed throughout his case that he used a photo of Obama and George Clooney as the source material for his Hope poster, not a photog...
The Impossible is Possible!
This just in from the Impossible Project: "We are pleased to herewith announce a history making cooperation between Polaroid and The Impossible Project: As we have created quite some buzz about Analog Instant Photography over the past 12 months, t...
Where the Wild (Marketing) Things Are
Spike Jonze's film adaptation of the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," by Maurice Sendak, finally arrives in theaters this weekend after a year of studio-demanded revamping and much anticipation from (mostly adult) fans of the book. Bel...
Lace in Translation
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The Design Center at Philadelphia University recently opened the exhibition "Lace in Translation" featuring the work of three artists inspired by the University's Quaker Lace Company archive. Many of the pieces capture the delicacy of lace by way ...
We Flip For the Femme Den
The current issue of Fast Company features a story on The Femme Den, an "internal collective" of four women at the NYC firm, Smart Design. The Femme Den's mission is to explore how best to design for women, and the members do their own research on...
Designing Obama, Pledge to Publish
As Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas had a front row seat to all the work that the candidate inspired. Subsequently, he has created the book, Designing Obama, which recaps the campaign through the design lens, contains forwards b...
Obama's Video Challenge
via my.barackobama.com The Organizing For America team has launched an amateur video competition and the winning spot will land on national TV. To quote Natalie Foster, the New Media Director at OFA: "This is your chance -- you ingenious, insightf...
Graphic Designer v. Client (NSFW)
Hello, Stocking Stuffer!
Snap-on jar tops turn your old spaghetti sauce container into a pitcher/creamer/shaker, etc.http://www.gnr8.biz/product_info.php?products_id=1072
People's Design Award : No Surfboard, Just Love & Admiration
On October 22 the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum will hold its annual awards gala and distribute laurels including the People's Design Award, submitted and chosen by us, the People. As of today, there are 86 nominees including the very cool ...