January 2009
23 posts
If i was the leader of a street gang...
This would be our secret handshake:
I discovered this on My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses. It’s a “hand hug”. High five someone, keep your hand against theirs, keep it flat and then hook your thumbs around each others hand.
Font Haiku
Loathsome Comic Sans’ uneven inky slugtrails. That vile, hated font.
Transparent? Get real. Sickeningly self-conscious. Yep, Helvetica.
Trebuchet MS, Web designers sick of want use you, but still weep.
From the seventies, Not one thing or the other: It is Optima.
Let’s make a movie! Oh, in that case you must use Manly Trajan Pro.
Arial, the clone But not of helvetica. Grotesque is...
For the Man of Action
“The imaginative application of dynamic color and design can create an office atmosphere compatible with the man of action… an atmosphere that inspires successful achievement. Most men are influenced - consciously or sub-consciously - by their surroundings. Personalized planning in color will amost always exert a positive influence toward greater success and is highly conducive to...
Nothing is original.
Via Ace Jet 170.
"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than...
Touching Strangers is a collection of photographs by Richard Renaldi, in which he composes strangers together in unassuming scenarios. Without knowing the context of the shots, I think i would’ve looked at each photograph and invented narratives that connect the subjects together.
Via The Rumpus
Florian Kaps, Instant Photography Superhero
“If all goes to plan, the Polaroid factory in Enschede, Amsterdam, will soon be making film again thanks to its new owner, an eccentric Austrian artist and businessman named Florian Kaps” - Emily Dugan, from Smile! Polaroid is saved (via Swiss Miss)
Image of superheroes found on Florian Kaps’ side project, polanoid.net. An amazing archive of 193,038 user-uploaded polaroid...
A business paradox?
Photo Credit: Darcy Finger Credit: Me Overly-Literal-Business-Name Credit: Userful Corporation
0.0003 kilowatt hours*
…is the energy expended in a Google search.
“Until now, it was a rarely pondered question: Between the virtual bookends of someone searching for revealing pictures of Lindsay Lohan online and a search engine producing said pictures, how much energy is consumed?
Thanks to an Internet mini-controversy this week, inquisitive minds now have a pretty good approximation: 0.0003 kilowatt...
Jeremy Jay, Airwalker
Designs for Living
An original 1961 Playboy article about the masters of design.
Admittedly, I haven’t read much editorial content from Playboy (take that admission as you will), but i doubt that it features content like this anymore. Via Lush Pad.
POLAROID LOVE
1.) Andy Warhol’s Still-Lifes:
The Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York is showing a selection of 70 Still-Life Polaroids taken by Andy Warhol between 1977 and 1983. Via Smosch.
2.) Camera Tee:
Wear your polaroid love. Available at Rumplo, a collection of art shirts from around the world. Via Swiss Miss.
3.) The Polaroid Kidd:
(technically, not polaroid images but i’m including it...
WatchVia Bruce Mau Design’s Love Blog.
"Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech."
- George Bush Welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House, 16 April 2008
One of several ‘Bushisms’ featured here on the Gaurdian (via Mary Christa O’Keefe) Also worth the Bush nostalgia, is Jon Stewart’s The Bush Years. I had forgotten huge amounts of his idiocy. Who will be the butt of the world’s jokes now?
I need to learn how to sew.
My favorite collection of fabric is from a German company called Volksfaden, who’ve cleverly created collages for each of their collections using old black and white photos as a vehicle for fabric swatches. Unexpected and delightful!
