Entries Tagged 'DESIGN' ↓

Mia Nolting’s blog and portfolio are wonderful. An impressive blend of hand drawn typography and illustrations.

Sites I visit regularly to keep me current and interested in design:

I love Typography - Informative and well written articles about all aspects of typography, design, usage, classification. I’ve possibly learned more from this blog than I did in some of my type classes.

Design Observer - Hundreds (thousands?) of well written articles by a variety of qualified designers. This has been going on for 5 years now. Their sidebar is also a great place to browse as it contains an extensive list of resources: books, links, contributors, etc.

Typophile – This is a fancy looking forum for type designers and enthusiasts. A good place to search if you have a specific question regarding typography.

The Serif – There are an endless number of design gallery/inspiration sites popping up everyday, so I will only post one – my favorite, The Serif. I can’t credit the author because I don’t know who is responsible for this thing.

A Brief Message – Short form.

Typographica – Another type website, they do an annual best of list.

AIGA – “The Professional Association for design”

Click Opera – Momus is a connoisseur of design, art and culture.

I was so impressed with this poster 6 months ago and recently reminded of it when I saw a trailer at the movie theater. If this comes around I will definitely see it, it looks tense. Apparently the director has already made this movie once before in Austria?

Today I found out two things. #1: Lou Reed is playing the Norva on April 25th. I’m into old Lou Reed and want to go out of curiosity, although I’m not real current on the goings on of Lou Reed. I hate it when the classics only play their new stuff even though I can see why they would. #2: Stefan Sagmeister is giving a presentation, I assume in support of his new book, on April 18th at the Contemporary Art Center in Virginia Beach. Interesting: These two have collaborated a couple times, here is a link to a kind of old interview/conversation.

Whenever I do something that needs a little bit of my guts, it turns out fine and whenever I go the wimpy way, it doesn’t.

– Stefan Sagmeister

I also “found out” (realized) the ladies at the bagel shop actually look like bagels. As close as people could look to bagels – pale and doughy and the same everyday. That’s probably mean, but they are too, I guess the bagels and me make them cranky.

And one of the things that came up in the conversation is, if you think about it, the challenge for someone named Barack Hussein Obama is that he’s such an unprecedented figure in American politics—so much so that everything he’s trying to do is, in a way, trying to make him look smoother and more normal.

I think it’s much more incontrovertible that he’s actually using the seamlessness of this branding to convey a candidacy that’s not a dangerous, revolutionary, risk-everything proposition—but as something that is well-managed and has everything under control.

– Michael Beirut

Archer was created for Martha Stewart Living a couple years ago and has just now become publicly available. This is such a fun slab serif (love the ball terminals) and available in a wide variety of weights. I wish I had it made and could buy it. Hoefler & Frere-Jones makes the most beautiful typefaces. If you use a mac, you already have one of their fonts, Hoefler.

I really love this poster for No Country For Old Men. Anyone have any favorites to share?

Our generation has no choice but to indulge in a revised futurism beyond the historically-anchored concept of Futurism. Uninhibited time-shifting and multi-directional time-travel are more advanced than constantly pushing the seams of forward progress. With no new territory, we cannot simply be the New Adventures of Lewis and Clark to etch our names in heavy tomes. We must move back and forth, side to side in our honest attempt to break new ground.

-W. David MARX, Neojaponisme Manifesto

Despite it’s narrow color scheme, Neojaponisme covers a wide range of topics in depth. I love essay blogs, even if this one calls my blog content into question … “#5. We refuse to abandon the Net to hollow carbohydrates!” Also see it’s less formal companion, Meta no Tame.