We finally got up our book of the month for June…. in mid-July! Yep, that’s right. We’re sure that everyone’s been hanging on the edge of their seats for the past month or 6 weeks waiting for us to post it up, well the wait’s over! This one’s been worth the weight though. The Whimsical Works of David Weidman and some serious ones, too is an amazing book. Check out more here!
Saw this article while perusing the interweb yesterday. Apparently a skatepark not too far from Valhalla HQ in Poway, CA recently implimented a thumbprint scanning entry system for people wishing to skate the Poway Skate Park. Really? A thumbprint to skate? Wow. Child predators lurk around school campuses but yet skaters have to register & give a thumbprint to skate. Hmmmmm, glad to see that California cities have their priorities straight.
E3′s going on right now. We rolled up there last week to meet up with some people and check out what’s going on in the world of video games. Microsoft’s Natal Kinect was everywhere & it was pretty a impressive deal. By the looks of the sheer amount of games released at the show, there’s going to be a lot of synchronized dancing going on in the world next year.. Lots more inside. Read More
Got a call a little while back from Olympic commentator / wiseguy / business owner / pro skiboarder, Todd Richards needing a logo for his new project, AWSM. The creative brief was pretty epic, “bright and colorful and fun. not really needing an icon as the the awsm is the logo too.” Check out AWSM here or check after the jump to see the logo we did in larger format. Read More
David Beckham, Daft Punk, Snoop, DJ Neil Armstrong, the Gallagher brothers (not the funny ones, the Oasis ones)? Dang… It would be better in my eyes if they ditched Beckham for someone less….. tabloid? and maybe someone more obscure than Snoop (Method Man would be pretty fitting) but all in all, it’s pretty awesome. Extra points in my book for having Daft Punk front & center.
Thanks to werd.com for bringing it to our attention.
This has been around for a little while but it’s pretty creative none the less and definitely worth watching. It’s definitely a watchable public service ad, words which don’t always go together.
The video’s been around a while but it’s hard to argue that the visuals in it are pretty awesome. The Rube Goldberg style of continual randomness is just to awesome not to post up.
Dropped a font this week named Optical Dillusion. Two years in the making and countless minuscule changes and tweaks which nobody but us would ever notice it’s ready to go. If you want to see more or hear the story behind it, follow the jump! Read More
So about a week ago Seattle’s Best Coffee decided to drop their new logo. In case you haven’t read really any design blog, msn or yahoo type site or have a water cooler gossiper who knows you like that arty stuff it’s causing a pretty big commotion, generally not the good kind. Read More
Perhaps you’ve seen this newfangled fanciness or perhaps you haven’t. Either way, the idea’s pretty good. Next year Puma’s bringing a whole new game to the shoe world, The Clever Little Bag. More after the jump. Read More
Wired has a pretty cool little article on how Google got their colorful logo. The article follows through the preliminary concepts through the final design. Check it out here. Or see more after the jump Read More
Ever want to roll over your own grave? Well, now you have the chance. I’ve never been to the Shadow Conspiracy’s headquarters but I imagine things like this around every corner there. More after the jump. Read More
It’s always sad to see good things die. I wore black for a week after Johnny Cash died. I get sad when I see a crashed up classic car. This is the graphic equivalent of Johnny Cash dying from crashing a hemi ‘Cuda. United Airlines & Continental Airlines recently announced that they were going to merge. Read / See more after the jump Read More
Handmade design work is the new rage. Everywhere you look there seems to be another amazing thing done by another new artist / designer. Papercutting is one of these new trends in design and the publisher Gestalten is promoting their new book, Papercraft, with an exhibition in the Netherlands this week. More after the jump Read More
Book of the Month time again. This time around, it’s an amazing number by Michael Evamy, simply called Logo. It’s as thick as a dictionary and has just about every good logo you can imagine. Check out our mini review here.
