Paul Rand

A small video about a great designer.
"Don't try to be original, just be good."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yOjts0tpco

Appetite: A reciprocal relationship between Food & Design

An exhibition at the Herb Lubalin Study Center at The Cooper Union.

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye by Rudolf Arnheim applies the approaches and findings of modern psychology to the study of art. It describes the visual process that takes place when people create—or look at—works in the various arts, and explains how the eye organizes visual material according to definite psychological laws. (taken from back of book blurb). Please read the chapter on "balance" starting on page 10 and ending on page 41.

Tadanori Yokoo posters

I was alerted to an exhibition of work by Tadanori Yokoo by "The Daily Heller" at the National Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan. His work is in the collection at The Museum of Modern Art in NY in the Architecture and Design Department. Christopher Mount, former assistant curator at MoMA has written an essay for book at the NMA in Osaka.

Here is a link: http://www.nmao.go.jp/english/b3_exhi_beginning_yokoo.html

Below is a link to another blog: A Journey Round My Skull that features posters by Tadanori Yokoo.

http://ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com/2008/10/tadanori-yokoo-posters.html

Bernard Maisner, master calligrapher

The series, sponsored by Louis Vuitton and Moet Hennessy in collaboration with Parsons The New School for Design, brings together a letterpress printer,bookbinder, papermaker, framer and more, examining their respective passions and the influence on contemporary artisans.

http://www.nowness.com/day/2010/6/3/688/talking-tradition

Lotte Reiniger

Strange Signs From Abroad

This was taken from a story in The New York Times about…A recent slide show, "A Sampling of Chinglish," which accompanied a story by Andrew Jacobs, showed signs in Chinese paired with unusual and often funny English translations. We asked readers to share photos of amusingly translated or otherwise quirky signs that they've found during their travels. Click an image to enlarge it, and scroll to browse through the collection.

this byline was also on the posting: by ALLISON BUSACCA and MARCIA ALLERT
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/11/travel/funny-signs.html?hp#/4be79e7f8e31df5c7d003d48/

"Turning Letters into Type," at the School of Visual Arts from July 12 to 16.

Taken from "The Daily Heller:"

Not too long ago, a designer asked me if there were a class that would teach her how to turn custom letters into a perfect typeface. Well, this summer, Sara Soskolne, a senior designer at Hoefler-Frere Jones (H&FJ) will teach an exciting, week-long workshop, "Turning Letters into Type," at the School of Visual Arts from July 12 to 16.

Soskolne (Sos-kol-nee) will introduce the tools and principles of digital typeface design through one-on-one, no-holds-barred engagement with an individual project of each student's own choosing. "Be it systematizing your own lettering, imagining a complete alphabet from a found fragment," she says, "articulating that ideal set of forms in your mind, or reviving a non-digital typeface you love," letters will come alive as type. The workshop will further foster a more critical eye for letterforms, a deeper understanding of how they work, and a whole new set of creative skills that can only make you a better designer. PREREQUISITE: Experience with bezier drawing, lettering or typography. Register here or here (and scroll to bottom). "

This one is pretty awesome it shows what's happening to the world: pretty narrative :

Another

Type Inspiration

4 years of the "On Language" type illustrations

"Wordplay: The Lettering of 'On Language'" opens on Thursday, April 22, at The New York Times Building, 620 8th Avenue, 7th floor. RSVP is required to: galleryseven@nytimes.com. We just RSVP'd -- hope to see you there as well!

Check out the website: http://www.spd.org/2010/03/post-3.php

The Complex of All of These

Maps

see the rest at www.jungundwenig.com/project/globalize-me-/

Posted by Ian Markell

Mira Schendel

MARK YOUR SOPT

This is the latest campaign for Calvin Klein's new line of underwear for men. It uses the slogan " Mark your spot", implying the dire need to claim either your own or your male partner's spot with the big X.

so suggestive! and

How brilliant!

Calvin Klein truly understands the idea of "sexing an object up".

here is a little eye candy for all of ya'

below is a link to a youtube video, featuring the commercial version of this campaign.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEtmQIRTYlk&feature=related

p.s this time CK is being extra politically correct by using models of different ethnicities.

a little something for everyone

Union Square Field Trip

paula scher

Check out this website to look at a Paula Scher's sketchbookhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7M7U8rP_K8

Chupa, Salvador Dali, and graphic identity

directly from "the daily heller" … Salvador Dali was known for his love of money. His nickname was Avidor Dollars. So, it shouldn't come as a surprise that he did his fair share of paid work for advertising, publishing and even Chupa Chups, the rather tasty Catalan lollipops. The company, founded in 1958 by Enric Bernat (now owned by Perfetti Van Melle), is named Chupa from the Spanish word chupar: "to suck." Bernat's idea was to put a bonbon on a stick (so as not to melt on a child's hands), the rest is lollypop history. In 1969 Dali, never one to turn down a dollar, designed the Chupa Chup logo (above) and like the sticky candy, it stuck. Incidentally, around the same time its slogan, "Its round and long-lasting," was coined.

I thought this was hilarious.

Typography

negative space

Brilliant Negative Space Illustrations by Noma Bar

found these at :

http://www.pixelelement.com/brilliant-negative-space-illustrations-by-noma-bar/

Nikol D

Thought Provoking

Niger is a country in West Africa bordering the Saharan and Sub-Saharan regions. Country covers 1,267,000 square kilometers and consists of a population of 15,975,000 (2005 estimate).

What did you think it said? Why do you think that?

Bigotry and hatred still exist! They will exist if we let them continue.

Teach your children not to hate. Recognize that we are all human beings.

Fiverr

For all the broke college students, I found this website fiverr to be helpful to making easy, fast cash. You sign up, book a "gig" and have people buy them from you. A gig is something you will do for $5. I have my own account and noticed that a lot of people will pay you $5 to design t-shirts or logos for them.

www.fiverr.com

Arabian Nights (compiled by Sophia Al-Maria)

I found this article in Harper's Magazine and have re-composed it (typeset it) from the magazine.

Hand Made Font

I just discovered a wonderful company that creates Hand Made Fonts. They use media that are a bit unusual for typography like fire, feathers etc. If you click on Types, you can see all their samples. Here's one of my favorites:

-Beril Esin

I lego NYC

and other posts from the Daily Heller. Steve Heller used to be an art director for the NYTimes.

He has since done many things including authoring many books but he also has a daily blog called the Daily Heller. It has lots of information for the design-hungry.

"Christoph Niemann's I [LEGO] N.Y. is a tiny brick of a book filled with more than a dozen of what I call Legoisms, the artist's droll and witty interpretation of the iconic toy as New Yaawk objects d'art. It's all based on his "Abstract City" blog on The New York Times website, and the inventive Herr Niemann (Mr. Ich bin ein New Yorker) just gets better and better. You'll understand after you've seen this plastic fantastic conceptual Gotham journal.

See a short video here. "

Lovely Package

I found this great site which shows a lot of pretty awesome package design. Click here for the site: Lovely Package
-posted by Ian Markell

"How to Design a Cover in 1:55 Seconds"

"How to Design a Cover in 1:55 Seconds." sped-up video by Lauren Panepinto, creative director of Orbit/Yen Press, revealing over six hours of "my onscreen compositing, retouching, color correction, type obsessing, all condensed down to a slim, sexy one minute 55 seconds of cover design."

Taken from Steve Heller's "Daily Heller": what this video vividly shows is how Internet technology and resources have truly accelerated the process. What is lost in studied contemplation is made up for in swift animation.

(Don't blink or you'll miss the dramatic Eiffel Tower portion.)"

Craig Ward

Craig Ward is one of my favorite typographic artist. To see more of his works, check out his portfolio here.

--MICHAEL BRAMBILA

Tote That Bag, Enter That Contest

Tote That Bag, Enter That Contest

The Painted Book

The Painted Book

Honoring the Designs That Get Movies Moving

An article in today's NYTimes about film titles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/movies/10titles.html

New Honor for the Designs That Get Movies Moving

By MICHAEL CIEPLY

Published: March 10, 2010

In a competition at the South by Southwest festival, film and television titles get the credit(s).

Nebojsa Cvetkovic

Nebojsa Cvetkovic is a Serbian illustrator and graphic designer who manages to inject humor into his work. He has a bold typographical style and choice of color.

-Jennifer Choi

Tips for Better Ideas

Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.

Tips for Better Ideas.

-Jennifer Choi

Sorry for posting a lot.. okay this is the last one :D

Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection from MABONA ORIGAMI on Vimeo.

Videogioco by Donato Sansone..

The Best Car Ad Ever by Honda

Collab animation by Blu & David Ellis

IT'S AMAZING! ENJOY!!

Showreel 2008

i just thought it has lots of cool still frames

NZ Book Council animation

ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently

Came across this book: ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently by Colleen Ellis. It is similar to some of the projects we do in 2DIS, playing around with the positive and negative spaces of figure and ground.

The site also contains some good links (Mark Batty publisher).

markbattypublisher.com/books/abcing/