Avengers

Mavel Comics made an amazing film called"AVENGERS" from a series of comic book. 
Iron man, Captain American, Hulk, Thor are coming out to the film.
"Avengers" comic book cover's illustration and film posters give us different feeling.

TypeConnection: A Typographic Dating Game

http://www.typeconnection.com/step1.php
An interesting study in trying to match different type face. Try it! What do you have to lose?

Witty Business cards

These are some interesting and humorous business cards. When I was researching business cards for our last project, branding, I encountered some unique ones and thought it would be cool to share some of them on this blog. When you think about each particular jobs, the cards makes more sense. 

Beautiful Paper cut out maps :D

I was researching for paper cut out maps to get inspirations for my final project and I found these amazing customised maps! It is amazing to see a sheet paper designed and craft out so beautifully. I feel so bad to have wasted so many papers! Someone should do a series of paper cut out art out of all the waste(clean!!) paper that we produced on the 8th floor!!!! 

Hand paper cut of London By Fmamille Summerbelle. It shows all of the neighborhoods and attractions of London, as well as some of the unusual side of London life.

By Famille Summerbelle

Autobio by Beatrice Coron

Webtime by Beatrice Coron

Amy Lai :D

Illustrated Maps

To add to my last post, here is a large compilation of maps I came across while researching today! I love all these pieces and will be using them as major inspirations for the style of my own 2 W. 13th mapping project. Combining quirky detail landmarks with an almost vintage-like & soft colour palette, each of these artists' maps are really full of personality.


~By Rifle Paper Co.


~By Alice Tait


~By Sol Linero



~By Lena Corwin

Maps, Maps, Maps!

While researching for our new "Foundation Year at Parsons: 2W13" project today, I came across these hand-illustrated maps done by a Canadian illustrator named Marisa Seguin. She mapped many cities such as Vancouver, Venice, Paris, San Francisco, and Milwaukee. What drew me to these maps was her colorful use of watercolors as well her interesting "flat" symbol-shapes. The typography gives the maps a handcrafted feel and I really like the artsy quality of these maps, especially the one of Paris - the color combination in that one is just gorgeous!

Cool Railway Maps

Folded Railway Maps of NYC, Tokyo, Osaka, and Seoul:

Since our last project is about maps, I researched some interesting maps. Zero Per Zero, a Korea based graphic design group, has released a beautiful railway maps of NYC, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Barcelona, Hokkaido, and London. Zero Per Zero have some other cool graphic designs on their website.






NYC Subway Map: front and back

Hokkaido Railway Map: front and back

Each map comes in three different versions: CITY MAP, HANDY MAP, and MINI MAP. The CITY MAP can be framed on a wall, and the HANDY MAP and the MINI MAP can be used by tourists in their own preference.  

Scale of each version of the London Railway map:

accessories designs

I thought this blog might be inspirational, especially to those who are going to fashion. Check out these accessories designs. Unique shapes and forms of high-heels and sunglasses make the products having deep meaning and thoughtful concepts.  
http://stylebubble.typepad.com/

Cole Haan Subway Ad Campaign.

I saw Cole Haan's new subway ad campaign recently and thought it was really cool how they customize it to New York and New Yorkers, with interesting stories which you can interpret to mean different things depending on how you read it.

Here's a link, but it doesn't have the stories. I think you'll have to go find the train that carries the ad to see that.

Free iPhone Toolbar Icons

I'm just interested in logo design. And Just a few days ago, Apple released 'The New iPad'. I was searching Apple application's icons designs and I just found 'Free iPhone Toolbar Icons' I felt that this logos just show what the tools really do. I attached below article, so you can look at it.

 Icons: Free iPhone Toolbar Icons

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These are the first icons I’ve developed specifically for iPhone developers, and I’m giving them away for free for anyone to use commercially under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada license. You may use or modify these icons in any way as long as you credit www.pixelpressicons.com.

If you have any suggestions for how I can make them better, please comment or send me an email — I’m very interested to hear how they work out. If you want more of these icons or need vector files please visit my stock iPhone toolbar icons shop.

Update: This collection now includes 60×60 pixel versions of the icons.

Connection between movie and fashion

So the movie "The Hunger Games" is based off of Susan Collin's novel by the same name. The city in the novel is described as a pioneer in avant-garde fashion. The taste of the citizens of the Capitol is often depicted as artificial, exaggerated, and disturbingly colorful. A collaboration between "The Hunger Games" and Rodarte, one of the biggest names on the runway, proved to be an interesting partnership, especially to join forces on designing a blog extending off of the original Capitol website.

http://capitolcouture.pn/tagged/capitol-look/

movie proxy website

I was searching for movies that are in theaters this week, and I found a proxy website of the Capitol, a city featured in "The Hunger Games".
The design of the website is very futuristic and unique from other movie websites in which all information is aligned horizontally (as you scroll down the webpage, you will see a page-scroller that directs you to the right). The design of the data and eccentric graphs are also interesting to analyze.

http://thecapitol.pn/#/hungergames

Typography Scarves

While looking at wearable typography, I found a brand called The Little Factory based in Hong Kong that makes typography scarves. These scarves aren't going to keep you warm in the winter, but they are another example of how typography works its way into our everyday lives.

There are more colors and styles on their website here!

Top: Helvetica in white

Top: numbers

Bottom: Helvetica in black

Bottom: Helvetica in green

Typography as Jewelry

Etsy designer Jen Murse has gotten a lot of positive feedback on these typography necklaces and rings made from laser cut acrylic. Not only can you have a favorite type, but you can also wear it as an accessory.

Her Helvetica necklace has been the most popular, and also comes in both red and black.

Murse's Kern rings are the cheapest at $15, and the necklaces run at $22; only a fraction of the price of the real font!

You can check out more of her work here.

Word as Image

This project is called "Word as Image" (designed by Ji Lee). The prompt was to "create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself." It's simple and imaginative, I think she did an amazing job. There's a video installation that goes with it, definitely something to check out. 

Source: http://illusion.scene360.com/design/25650/wordplay/