Somehow I missed that at the end of June the USPS issued a set of Forever stamps called the Pioneers of American Industrial Design which feature 12 objects designed by the "nation's most important and influential industrial designers," as chosen b...
Monday Digest: Album Design Goes Small; Fairey on Copenhagen; Hipster Ipsum
??? The NYT asks album cover designers whether the small size of art used on iTunes, iPods and other digital devices influences their design choices. While some musicians still want complex covers, the industry seems to agree that how well an album ...
Postcardly : The Digital Savior of Snail Mail?
Postcardly (currently in beta) is a new digital service that will convert an email with an attached photo into a postcard (email content on back, photo on front) and send it to your designated recipient via the US Postal Service. Promoted as a way...
Postcards from Torrey Pines State Park, CA
Design Crush: Jessica Hische
will hereby begin peppering this blog with designer/illustrator Jessica Hische's awesome Daily Drop Cap. Begun in 2009, she pledged to design a drop cap a day until she'd completed 12 alphabets. It now being 2011, the goal has been met but her let...
Stop-Motion Magic
I can't get enough of stop-motion animation. For me, it taps into that same feeling of creative transformation that comes from art like that by Tara Donovan: the magical payoff of tedious, minute and disciplined repetition. To this end, here's a p...
PBS webseries: Off Book
I have been neglecting this blog for the past couple of months however the diversions have cleared so regular posts will begin again shortly. In the meantime, check out this quick video on typography, part of Off Book, an arts-focused web series o...
Man as Industrial Palace
When I'm in Philly next month I'm hoping to catch an exhibit of vintage medical posters currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The posters are part of a donated collection assembled by William H. Helfand (father of Jessica Helfand). ...
All of the Bacon & Eggs
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