February 2012
7 posts
Strange, but I really like these from gilt.com:
These are really cute!
from A+R Store
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
This is crazy weird/cool…passed along at work:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
animated GIF
Evan sent this to me! hhaha
http://mothereffinganimatedgif.com/
Max got one of these the other day from Starbucks because they were slow getting his coffees….thought the design/idea is pretty cool.
This is a pretty awesome photographer! He seems to do a lot of the TIME covers that I read. So cool!!!
http://www.eschlimanphoto.com/blog/
I read an article in the metro a while ago that I keep meaning to post—well here it is. It’s really nice—-
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Local artist Kenji Nakayama is trying to raise awareness about the homeless problem in Boston by using the stroke of his brush. The traditional sign-painter and font aficionado has slowly been replacing homeless...
January 2012
4 posts
pretty cool site passed along by evan at work!
http://www.onehourpersecond.com/
This is pretty sweet! Thanks Evan!
https://www.mugeda.com/animation/edit/1263
December 2011
7 posts
This got passed along at work today….
Twitter just launched brand pages along with their new redesign…. They launched with 21 brands…American Express, Best Buy, Bing, Chevrolet,Coca-Cola, Dell, Disney Pixar, General Electric, Heineken, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, JetBlue, Kia,McDonald’s, Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Nike Basketball, NYSE Euronext,...
this is funny! Passed on by RJ at work
http://www.quietroom.co.uk/santa_brandbook/
A coworker passed this along to me today…this is incredible. I’ve seen a bunch of really nice bergdorf goodman displays before but this is the best I think I’ve seen it.
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/bergdorf-goodman-wild-holiday-window-displays
Nice Fedex short by BBDO
http://creativity-online.com/work/fedex-enchanted/25437
Whoa, this is cool!
From fab.com
November 2011
11 posts
DesignersMX
This is wicked cool! A friend passed this along at work— DesignersMX allows designers to go online and make music playlists and then design covers for them. Wicked cool!
iPhone transitions
This was passed along at work today—pretty cool!
iPhone transitions slowed down
http://vimeo.com/32704624
Benetton "Unhate"
This is great. Newest from Benetton, the campaign is called “Unhate”. Pretty hilarious and fun!
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Saw this awesome stuff on fab.com today…a Boston-based designer does these fantastic prints! Also a MassArt alum. Check out her website at JHillDesign.com it’s great.
Another thing passed along at work…
An snapshot of the economy today.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money_huge.png
This got passed along at work…
Hoefler talks web fonts http://www.aiga.org/video-pivot-2011-hoefler/
I saw this today… romney’s “logo”…how shitty is this!
But also strangely reminiscent of something else……
Then I went to the website, and it looks strangely familiar…got a strange sense of deja-vous….
NPR
more cute NPR graphics…wonder who their designer is? They seem to have a lot of ongoing “promo” spots that are unique to NPR.
HOLY SHIT. Look. at. this. website.
HAHAH!
http://gagasworkshop.com/
how amazing would it be to do a project like that with basically no parameters? wow!
A pretty cool article passed on at work about one person’s perspective on interaction design:
http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/
Not sure exactly how true / valid this is and/or if I agree, but we’ll see I guess.
October 2011
22 posts
WatchSaw this pretty cool video on NPR today about the population growth!
A friend from work sent me this today, really awesome!
http://vitamintalent.com/dotAsset/a06c1aab-696f-492d-9d7b-9115de98a6da
This is wicked cool, I saw this in the metro yesterday:
Automatic Apparel
Started by a Harvard Business grad.
Here’s the text from metro.com:
Need a quick change of clothes after spending all night at someone’s place? Maybe you’ve been trekking around in heels all day and want a more relaxing pair of kicks. Either way, Hub resident Gina Moro has got you covered. Moro’s startup...
Drink & Draw
WIIIICKED funny website that someone from work sent along today. So funny.
http://drnkdrw.com/site/index.php
Wicked funny diagram that a coworker sent along yesterday about agency life…
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/321192_10150904849110235_500465234_21600929_157815519_n.jpg
Another funny type link
After that first type thing was sent out, this was:
http://cheeseorfont.com/
hilarious!
Kerning game
hahah this is awesome!!! a coworker passed this along to the office today. Totally addicting!!
http://type.method.ac/
Data visualization: Popular Science
Popular Science had a great collection of data visualization in the last issue. It’s really pretty remarkable. Here are some:
Where Locals Go and Tourists Go
By Eric Fischer, 2010
To understand how others see New York City, Fischer plotted geotagged photos uploaded to flikr. He then analyzed each data point and deduced if the photographer was a local or a tourist based on the...
This is incredible. The Saint Johns Bible, the first handwritten, illuminated Bible in the modern era. Here’s the description they have on their site:
In 1998, Saint John’s Abbey and University commissioned renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson to produce a hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible. We invite you to explore this work of art that unites an ancient Benedictine tradition with...
A coworker passed this along to me because I’ve been doing a lot of mobile projects recently. Check it out!
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/organizing-mobile/
My mum was mentioning to me that my hometown might be “rebranding” or just refreshing it’s old look. It currently, like other places, has an old town seal as its “logo”. It made me look into how other cities and towns big and small have “branded” themselves. Here’s some of the things I found….
Obviously, a TON of seals, some better done than...
My friend Evan at work sent out a link yesterday which is pretty cool, it’s a personal project of a girl who’s creating logos for each of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes. Pretty sweet check it out: http://www.branding10000lakes.com/
Here are some of my favs:
great outdoor advertising
A colleague sent me a link to some really sweet outdoor advertising, check it out….
A colleague sent along a pretty cool article today about some new web page features with HTML5. Unfortunately, a lot of the non-flash based animation tools are still wicked crude, but it’s a step!
here’s some highlights:
above, ^ http://www.automatoon.com/start
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The tech director at work today sent me this REALLY AWESOME infograph of the history of programming languages. It’s pretty crude design-wise but pretty amazing for information.
http://visual.ly/mother-tongues-—-tracing-roots-computer-languages-through-ages
A colleague sent along a pretty cool article today about some new web page features with HTML5. Unfortunately, a lot of the non-flash based animation tools are still wicked crude, but it’s a step!
here’s some highlights:
above, ^ http://www.automatoon.com/start
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Really cool thing on fab.com today— older retro prints. Pretty awesome typography. It”d be sweet if drawing was still this much of advertising still.
I watched “The Seven Year Itch” last night with Marilyn Monroe—one of my favorite parts to old movies are the opening credits :-)