Category: Design

LOST Valentine’s Day Cards »

Artist Lee Bretschneider from www.adventuringcompany.com has been busy crafting some serious Lost Love! If you dig these and send em, consider participating in Lee’s fundraiser for Haiti (really cheap art).

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You Should Judge A Book By Its Cover »

Featuring Steven Heller, Rodrigo Corral and Chip Kidd. In his one-man multimedia show, You Should Judge A Book By Its Cover, Borelli takes on non-classics like Cooking With Pooh (featuring Winnie the Pooh stirring a batch of brown cookie dough) and other gross miscarriages of literary design.

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Superman, Houdini and Hitler All Used Letterhead »

Letterheady is the new site from Shaun Usher who has been collecting “offline correspondence, specifically letters” for a good while now on his  www.lettersofnote.com site. This new online showcase highlights the design, not the content. Good, I’m tired of reading.

There’s only a handful of pieces up now, but I’m sure more sheets of 24Lb bond [...]

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Time Waster: The Art of Penguin Science Fiction »

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Enjoy browsing hundreds of scintillating sci-fi book covers from Penguin Publishing.

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Amazing High Altitude, Glass-Bottom Views »

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Sears Tower “The Ledge” – 1,350 feet above ground (photo by José M. Osorio). More Pix>

Grand Canyon Skywalk – 4,000 feet above ground

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Cool Color Optical Illusion »

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Cool Color Optical Illusion. “You see embedded spirals, right, of green, pinkish-orange, and blue? Incredibly, the green and the blue spirals are the same color.”

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Daily Distractions: Bad Jobs, Good Design and Ugly Soviet Album Covers »

Don’t You Dare Complain About Your Job: “Waahhh, my reports didn’t format correctly!” “Waahhh, the conference room is double booked!” Yes, that is devastating, Rick, but at least you’re not Sulfur Mining in an Active Volcano. Speaking of volcanoes—and who isn’t—here’s one that might remind you of the kick-ass lava-spewer I crafted in fourth grade. Remember that one? Baking soda and vinegar all up in your face? NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave.

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The Huffington Post: Making Reading Painful »

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I wish I could still enjoy reading the Huffington Post, I really do, but my peepers won’t allow it. When the site pops open in my browser I expect circus music to start playing and confetti to drop from the ceiling. Within seconds I am  stricken with a small but painful eye seizure (picture cartoon eyeballs [...]

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Little Red Riding Hood: The Infographics Version »

School assignment to reinterpret the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood using Infographics… lots of them.

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Vintage Beer Cans »

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Cantatstic! The Dieline has a great post about vintage beer packaging, highlighting the work of  Lance Wilson and  Dan Becker who photographed an extensive collection of old beer cans — some with lovely detail and design and some with a very scary “Repo Man” minimalist vibe. Either way, I’m pretty sure the beer inside these [...]

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