The Ampersand symbol, every designer’s long-time beloved friend has an interesting story. Around the world, it’s known as “the and sign” but did you know that it was once the 27th letter in the alphabet? What about how it got it’s name? Read more & see some cool examples inside. Read More
We don’t post a ton about surfing on the blog but we saw this over on Todd Richard’s AWSM site today and thought it was pretty relevant to our deal. Great title graphics, interesting editing & random Iron’s brother looking like Eazy E in a couple quick snippits make it look like an interesting view. Julian WIlson’s Quiksilver Movie Projectis premiering up in HB during the US Open of Surfing…
File this under “most awesome things anyone’s ever done, ever.” More inside
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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
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
Pretty good work here by Julian Hansen. A crazy flow chart of how to find a typeface. Doing an infographic and you cried during Terminator? He’s got you covered. Don’t like the type on highways and you’re ok if it’s Swiss? Helvetica’s your answer. Pretty cool, check after the jump for details and a full view. Read More
Raygun Magazine came out in the mid 90s and was heralded by the design community as being revolutionary, rule breaking, fancy, wretched, amazing and just about everything in between. Perusing Flickr today I came across a set of the magazine’s covers, check them out after the jump. Read More
Seen his work around for a little while now but today’s the first time that I went to his site and let’s just say that it’s impressive. Lots more after the jump. Read More
Popping up a few amazing posters I’ve run across the past few months. A little of this, a little of that. Think of it as a St Patricks Day present from us to you only without the nonsense that’s become synonymous with St Patty’s day. Check out more after the jump. Read More
It’s always fun to look through the great work of the past. While many people I know dislike them for some reason, I’ve always been a fan of old posters. It’s nice to look at packaging from yesteryear as well, it’s like looking through the window to a time before focus groups and execs dabbling in everything they get the chance to. Read More
This coming Thursday, the fine folks at House Industries are putting on an open house / opening reception for their new Eames Century Modern font collection at the Eames office in Santa Monica! Read More
The latest addition to the Logo Rants & Raves section is the Chocolate chunk script logo by Evan Hecox. Is it a rant or rave? While that shouldn’t be too hard to figure out, you can check it out in the Logo Rants & Raves section by clicking here.
Designers are a dime a dozen*, everyone with a computer is a graphics designer (no mis-spell there). Saying a great designers are one in a million would be an understatement. Then there’s that whole other level which is so rare that the level doesn’t even exist, Herb Lubalin was the definition of that kind of level. Read More
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.
