The top 15 out of a 39-quip week.
A = Authors | C = Community
A / No. 92 / Armin / If you are a fan of Marian Bantjes — and who isn’t? — you might want to spend $45.00 on her first, and awesome, typeface: Restraint. [Apologies for the friendly and blatant shilling!]
A / No. 95 / Armin / STEP magazine’s upcoming cover, designed by Modern Dog, is deadly. Sure, it might not look it from the cute picture of the All-American girl with her basket of art supplies and a puppy. [Smaller pic here]. But look harder… and you will find Modern Dog’s 140 ways to Die. Subliminal art is alive and well, thank you very much!
C / No. 3 / Josh B / The millionaire, teenage graphic designer (no really). Watch the video. I hate this girl.
A / No. 1 / Armin / Trick or Treat or Terrible Vanity Halloween Logo? BuzzFeed tracks that web sites that adorned their logo for this spooky night.
A / No. 93 / Armin / E-mail spam has never looked lovelier: Hand-lettered spam one-liners by UK-based illustrator Linzie Hunter. [Via Drawn]
A / No. 89 / Armin / If you watched The Office last week (or DVR’d it and watched it last night) you may have been as excited as I was to see the result of Pam’s logo animation for Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton TV ad that kept her up until 2:15 am. The verdict? Pretty darn cool.
A / No. 96 / Armin / Out of a thousand little design pieces in the current Print Regional Design Annual, it was only Jesse Kirsch’s poster for the 19th Columbia Film Festival, that made stop the flipping and actually look. Lovely solution with what would otherwise be two unbearable clichés (film roll and camera).
A / No. 5 / Armin/ The Periodic Table of Brand Evolution Terms. If you think you can skip this link, ask yourself if you know what Divestiture means.
A / No. 3 / Joe Marianek/ In an era of economic uncertainty, we can count on The Bierut Effect. Unbeige charts Saks Fifth Avenue sales, pre-Bierut and post-Bierut.
C / No. 54 / Neal S / Pentagram brings an air of sophistication to the casual dining world with their fresh take on Ruby Tuesday.
C / No. 56 / Todd Carver / Something every designer needs, in cream form.
A / No. 2 / Armin / Creative Review showcases the identity and supporting work for The Chicago Spire, one of the city’s most phallic beatiful buildings in the making.
C / No. 62 / Jeff / Microsoft redesigns the iPod packaging to humorous effect.
A / No. 91 / Armin / Lucky you if you speak German: Some sort of kick ass manual about corporate identity, put together by, what I can gather, a group of German students, which you can download. But, no matter, just click here for some lovely infographics to be found in the document. [Via ffffound]
A / No. 1 / Josh B / The most incredible (albeit fictional) pitch ever given, from the season finale of Mad Men. Truly brilliant. Don’t miss this.
Has anyone seen this?
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Maybe you already talked about this, I haven't been on in a while.
It seems Paula Scher is working with hp to develop downloadable pre-designed business systems. Now I realize they probably look nicer then 90% of systems out there, but do things like this and create your own logo services on the internet devalue the role of the professional designer? Or is it just a public service?
On Nov.05.2007 at 02:49 PM