The top 15 out of a 34-quip week.
A = Authors | C = Community
A / No. 5 / Armin / “Don’t Drink and Drive” pales in comparison to these Prohibition era posters and illustrations against drinking. [Via Fabrica]
C / No. 5 / Angela / Serif shoes
A / No. 8 / Whaleroot / Adobe save the Queen.
A / No. 3 / Armin / Star Wars, film titles by Saul Bass. Only in a galaxy far, far away would this happen. [Via Kottke]
A / No. 4 / Armin / For its “Best of New York” special issue New York magazine challenged Alan Dye, Carin Goldberg, Gretel, Wieden+Kennedy, and Wolf Ollins to outdesign each other in hopes of landing the cover design.
C / No. 10 / Chad K / Possible some of the most beautiful Code Generated Art I have ever seen.
C / No. 4 / Aidan / ReBrand 100 announces 2008 winners.
A / No. 19 / Armin / Do courtroom sketchers do more than courtroom sketching? [Via Drawn]
C / No. 6 / Plamen / How Banksy gave Swiss embassy an image makeover.
C / No. 11 / Diane Zerr / Daddy, can I go to Type Camp? Registration for Type Camp 2008 is now open.
C / No. 9 / S Harley-Mills / Hillary Clinton’s Poli-graph.
A / No. 2 / Randy J. Hunt / Will tomorrow’s world still need designers? A thought-provoking (albeit surface-level) perspective on the future of design.
C / No. 1 / Cat / Clients: Beware, and Be Clear!
The point is, creative briefs are not meant to be THAT brief. So pretty please, start writing more stuff on your post-it note. Use both sides even. Please.
A / No. 1 / Armin / Not sure the best way to Quip this but I’ll try: Music video where the lyrics are interpreted as “retro logo animations”. [Via Motionographer]
C / No. 3 / Noah / New FREE skull font from Skull-A-Day: Skullphabet 2.
Oh please: another attempt by a New York magazine to pit one designer against another for getting cover work. I realize it may be fun for some to do this, but it devalues designers once again to become some editor's version of Michael Vick pit bulls.
On Mar.11.2008 at 12:27 PM