While at a red light recently, my passenger and I got in a heated discussion about whether this billboard...I'll admit I was wrong. I still standby my initial argument that if you're going to tilt type, go big or go home. On the other hand, the fa...
Michael Jackson: Patent Holder
via mediabistro.com I always wondered how the late Michael Jackson could lean like this. Turns out he is one of three inventors listed on a 1993 patent issued for loafers fitted with a special heel that hooks into the floor, allowing the wearer to...
Sneak Peak: Martin Venezky mugs for SFMOMA
San Francisco designer Martin Venezky and his Appetite Engineers designed a set of 4 mugs (3 pictured below) for the SFMOMA store. The mugs willl be available for purchase through the store website later this week. Since the designs have already c...
Maira Kalman, The Elements of Style: The Movie
via mairakalman.com I was going to do a post on Maira Kalman's funny, poignant and charming illustrated book, "The Principles of Uncertainty," when I discovered this film on her website. Its an adaptation of the illustrations Kalman made for a ver...
Biggest Recycled Artwork EVER
via thepostfamily.com Robert Bradford recreated a 1950's Coke ad with crushed soda cans. Happy National Recycling Week, United Kingdomers!
Droog short a founder
Gijs Bakker, of Droog Design has resigned as board member of the Droog Design Foundation, citing irreconcilable differences with his co-founder Renny Ramakers. Apparently Bakker feels his focus on the "creativity and originality of Droog Design pr...
Ahh, Photoshop
Some of the entries from the "Impossible Celebrity Couples" contest on the site worth1000.com are pretty impressive.More celebrity parings and other Photoshop contests here: visit http://www.worth1000.com/contest.asp?contest_id=23378&display=photo...
Head to Toe
via designmuseum.org The interactive installation "Head to Toe" is part of the current exhibition Super Contemporary, up now at London's Design Museum, one of my favorites. The artist, Ross Phillips, installed four pods around London that take cli...
On-going: Visualizing Information
via alexandercheek.com This is information designer Alexander Cheek's thesis project, "No Roads," which I discovered on the web a few years back. He stripped a map of New England of the usual suspects, such as roads, parks, etc, and overlaid other...
NYT Magazine Shrinks and Gets a Makeover
via nytimes.com The New York Times Magazine revealed a size reduction and subsequent redesign this weekend. Basic rundown: * Cropped by 9%. * The Times commissioned a new typeface, Lyon Text, by typographers Kai Bernau and Christian Schwartz to ma...