Exploring the design of the human experience
I enjoy this rather literal identity for Rainy Day designed by Toko, a Dutch studio Based in Sydney, Australia. The result is, as they put it, “almost too obvious but too good to ignore”.
I enjoy this rather literal identity for Rainy Day designed by Toko, a Dutch studio Based in Sydney, Australia. The result is, as they put it, “almost too obvious but too good to ignore”.
A blog focusing purely on graphic design in the world of beer? I have to admit, I had no idea how much design gets consumed by beer until now!
When I first came across Oh Beautiful Beer, a blog documenting outstanding graphic design in the world of, well, beer, I couldn’t help but wonder how such a limited category would yield enough material to quench the thirst of a blog.
Clearly I had no idea how much design gets consumed by beer!
Created by Harvey Shepard of Livingston, Texas, this beer design blog is over a year old now. Here are a few of the beautiful beers with some nice typographic touches he has featured:
To Resolve Project is a good looking collection of New Year’s resolutions by various artists and designers in the form of downloadable wallpapers.
To Resolve Project is a good looking collection of New Year’s resolutions by various artists and designers. Should you find one you wish to make your own, you’re in luck, because and they come in the form of downloadable wallpapers. Curator Chris Streger is inviting everyone to contribute a design to the project and he even has some templates to get you started.
Here are a few of my favourites so far:
This is Typedeck’s 100th post since launching in June this year – a great milestone and a good time to sign off for 2011. Thanks for all the support and positive feedback so far!
Hello friends. This is Typedeck’s 100th post since launching in June this year – a great milestone and a good time to sign off for 2011.
Typedeck has given me the opportunity to explore typography in a new and more intensive way than ever before. I have learned a lot in the past few months and best of all is I am applying this learning to my own design work.
Thanks for all the support and positive feedback so far! Have a fantastic festive season and a blessed Christmas.
Here’s to resuming Typedeck in 2012 with new vigour.
– Imar
To end off the year I have just thrown together a few random bits and pieces of interest. Click on the images to visit the source:
Screenshot of their maintenance page:
Hampus Jageland, a Swedish designer based in Paris, designed this simple and clever identity for Edgeboard – an equally simple and clever product…
Hampus Jageland, a Swedish designer based in Paris, designed this simple and clever identity for Edgeboard – an equally simple and clever product. I love the thinking behind it and the way the logo interacts with its environment. The tightly kerned bold geometric lettering doesn’t hurt either.
Edgeboard are handmade chopping boards from the Northern Beaches in NSW that possess a special feature; an edge which you use to slide off the chopped food against.
Great collection of beautifully scanned logos originating in Scandinavia during the 1960s and 70s.
Aren’t these great? Interesting how the logos not only fall within a very narrow palette of colours – with a definite preference for blues and reds – they also share a similar aesthetic quality. How can one describe it… maybe “noble yet understated”?
From a Flickr set by Oliver Tomas where you can see even more.
I recently happened upon two interesting projects sharing several similarities; both are about geographic regions in the USA, both are typographically executed and both are rather ambitious…
I recently happened upon two interesting projects sharing several similarities; both are about geographic regions in the USA, both are typographically executed and both are rather ambitious…
Fifty illustrators from across the United States of America each visually interpreted the motto of their own state. The resulting gallery has a nice cohesive feel thanks to a common duotone palette. I don’t know if there were any other particular guidelines in the brief, but it’s interesting to see that many of them feature similar executions like hand-drawn type, misregistered colours and grainy textures. At a glance one might even assume that they were all done by the same person!
The 50 and 50 project was the idea of Dan Cassaro, the force behind one-man studio Young Jerks in Brooklyn, New York. Judging by the post archive, the project was completed in April 2011. Prints are now available from Society6.
Here are a couple of the more delightful results:
Nicole Meyer of Minnesota aka The Land of 10,000 Lakes has embarked on an outrageous quest to design a logo for each of the state’s lakes. Why?
Lake logos have a tendency to be, well, fairly ugly. This project was created to rethink what they could be. One Minnesota Lake. One Logo. Every day. Should only take a little over 27 years to hit ’em all.
Follow Nicole’s progress at Branding 10,000 Lakes. Here are a few examples of the 130-odd she has created so far:
Division of Labor based in Sausalito, California letterpressed these cool posters serving as a reminder of those little unwritten rules your colleagues may have forgotten about…
Division of Labor based in Sausalito, California letterpressed these cool posters serving as a reminder to your coworkers of those little unwritten rules they may have forgotten about…
There are certainly a few people whom I would love to send this one to for Christmas:
Via swissmiss.
Very nice vintage paint can labels designed by Dustin Wallace for Fossil.
You would be forgiven for thinking these are the real deal, but Dustin Wallace from Texas designed these very authentic-looking vintage paint can labels for a Fossil store display in 2010:
Yourstruly, located on Long Street in the heart of Cape Town’s city centre, is one of my favourite lunch time spots. One thing I enjoy about it is the DIY ethic…
Yourstruly, located on Long Street in the heart of Cape Town’s city centre, is one of my favourite lunch time spots.
One thing I enjoy about it is the DIY ethic: on any given day you can find owner Daniel Holland enthusiastically serving coffee and sandwiches through the hatch, but that’s not all – he also took care of all the graphic design himself, and his dad did the carpentry!
The graphic identity of Yourstruly is quite appropriately anchored by Trade Gothic, which Jason Santa Maria describes as an honest, dependable and industrious typeface with little flourish or fuss.
Next time you’re in Cape Town and find yourself in need of some good coffee and a strong dose of typography, you know where to go.
Find out a little more about Yourstruly and Daniel on Ilovecoffee.co.za.