Book of the Month – March 2010


New Skateboard Graphics is the book of the month for March 2010. I know what you’re thinking, another skate graphic book? Well, yes. To see why check out our mini-review here.

Berlin, it’s not just for walls anymore

March 8, 2010  |  Check this out, Random  |  No Comments


Found a couple pretty nice flickr sets the other day from the Berlin Buchstaben-Museum ( or letter museum for us English speakers). Being a lover of signs, old & random stuff, the next time (first time?) I’m in Berlin, I know where I’m going. (check after the jump for some highlights & links) Read More

Don’t forget about the Germans

February 26, 2010  |  Branding, Check this out, Random  |  No Comments


Sure yesterday, we put up some good examples of American design on cars from the 70’s but don’t think for a second that the German’s were sleeping at that time. The early 70’s meant business at the Porsche factory, their cars were works of art and to top them off, they painted them amazingly well for the races. Here’s a great set from the Porsche museum of the branding on their racecars. (check after the jump to see out highlights) Read More

Cars used to be cool.

February 25, 2010  |  Branding, Check this out, Random  |  No Comments


Seems like now the only thing that car companies make are remakes of older cool cars, cars with some Green story or just complete garbage. Enough of that though, here’s a cool set with some amazing examples of how cool the typography on old cars used to be (you can also see a condensed version after the jump) Read More

Elephants are like ice cream

February 22, 2010  |  Check this out, Random  |  No Comments


I just can’t say no. Check this out. Amazing German currency note from 1919. Or check out this a doozie of a 1921 Czech note. Or how about this random German note with a devil dude on it from 1921? I could go on all day, these are so awesome. I’ll leave with this one, apparently from a town that now has the German Toy Museum.

Leaf me alone.

February 19, 2010  |  Branding, typography  |  No Comments


Been cruising around on Flickr looking at different type examples lately. Came across a pretty good set by a fella named Michael Spitz today. Click here to check out his work.

Valhalla goes worldwide

February 17, 2010  |  Product, Snowboarding  |  No Comments


Tonight Omatic’s own Louie Vito danced his way into onto the Olympic stage landing himself a solid 5th place. Check after the jump to see the story of how this relates to our blog… Read More

What’s working with Steve Jobs like?

February 17, 2010  |  Check this out  |  1 Comment


This guy should know. Ken Segall worked with Steve Jobs while at Apple’s agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day. He’s the guy who wrote the Think Different campaign and came up with the name “iMac” (which Jobs initially hated). Check out the interview here.