Ommwriter from Herraiz Soto on Vimeo. Spanish creative agency Herrioz and Soto created Ommwriter, a simple text editing program, to help its employees filter out the distracting elements that are a dime a dozen when you work on a computer. As desc...
New York Magazine Cover 2 Ways
Many magazines frequently print two covers for a single issue, one for newsstands and the other for subscribers, which will typically feature a more arty???and therefore less checkout aisle friendly???image of the same subject. Such is the case for th...
N-n-n-Neutra Face
This spoof of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" (made for and by typographic nerds) has been making the rounds. And yes, the creators did admit in the YouTube description of their video that "'NEUTRA' is actually pronounced 'NOY-trah', but that escaped our...
Holiday Shopping : #iGiveTwice Edition
This holiday season my crony-at-large Olivia has started a Twitter campaign (search #iGiveTwice) to encourage people to purchase gifts that return something to the world. As she writes on her website: "Choose gifts that have a social or environmen...
Pomplamoose
Here's a novel idea for a music video: Show musicians actually playing, sans gimmickry or cut-aways to the band caught in some sort of brooding narrative. Musicians Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte of the band Pomplamoose have revived the WYSIWYG form w...
The Matrix : Lego Style
There have been some incredible Lego creations out there, including the thorough (and no-longer-with-us) Lego House, music videos, and monuments galore, but I think this Matrix recreation is especially well done. There's just something about seein...
Assorted Album Inspiration Part 2
Following up Part 1, here's more from the record archives. Quaint yet subtly unsettling illustrative style. I like the typographic diagrams on this Blood, Sweat & Tears album. (detail) (back) WOW! Brief history of Frasconi, who is 90-years-old. ht...
Sunday Digest: Pope Sez GO Forth & Create; The Map As Art; Tim Burton at MOMA
??? Of 500 invitees, about 250 members of the creative class (architects, artists, musicians, directors, writers, composers) arrived at the Vatican yesterday for an audience with the Pope. According to organizer Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the goa...
Snazzy TOMS Shoes Support Design Scholarship
A handful of graphic design's bold face names including Jessica Helfand, Ellen Lupton and James Victore, have customized a set of TOMS shoes currently for sale on Ebay in support of the Art Directors Club's scholarship program. Each pair starts at...
Adland by James P. Othmer
Video trailer/promo for James Othmer's book Adland (Doubleday), which debuted in September, and is part bio, part analysis of the industry.