Gallery of posters for Flight of the Concords shows

Flight of the Concords show poster design

Show poster design for Flight of the Concords

There’s some great stuff in this gallery of posters designed for Flight of the Concords’ Spring 2009 tour.

Things I liked last week #6

Here are handful of things I liked last week, please click on the images to go to their source.



Lots of handmade typography in this nice music video for a Death Cab for Cutie song, Little Bribes.

Make like a tree and leave

Great color and texture in this illustration.


Canyon Identity - Kyle Poff

Kyle Poff does some nice identity designs.

rug

Love these artistic handmade rugs by Reuber-Henning.

Wedding invite by Hammerpress

Wow, Hammerpress created this amazing wedding invite, its my personal favorite so far!

Up high!

I can never get enough hot air balloon things.

Venn Diagram

Ok, I’m kind of tired of the Venn diagram humor, but this one actually got me to smile.

Asthma ciggarettes

A nice collection of vintage ads promoting unhealthy medicines.

letterpress notebook

I like these handmade notebooks with a letterpress graphic on the cover, you can find them on Etsy at the moment.

gradient clouds

A dreamy photo by m a r i e.

feel the music

Erin Hanson leaves colorful reminders around her house for herself.

Mr. Rogers on a train

I want a high quality print on this photo soooo badly, I would even pay money for one if I found it.

What do you do with the mad that you feel?



If you have 7 minutes of spare time and adore Fred Rogers as much as I do, watch this video clip of Mr. Rogers passionately defending PBS to prevent Nixon from cutting their budget in order to fund the Vietnam War.

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Things I liked – Pre-vacation edition

I’m off to vacation in Colorado and Arizona until early June, so to keep you entertained here is a slightly larger than usual amount of things I’ve recently liked. Please wait for me, I promise I’ll be back in top-notch blogging form when I get back! Click the images for the source.



Amazing chalk animation.

Slab Serif

It’s a serif slab, get it?

Blow me away

No photoshopping here, this was actually printed on glass and shattered.

Alpha Beta Cola

Love this vintage pop can, lots more in this set.

Coaster photo by David Nass

Nice photography by David Foster Nass

Melted thoughts poster

Love that shape in this design.

mmmmm

Delicious colors in this photo.

Liars Poster

The Poster Dezigner does good posters.

multi colored tree

Awesome multi-colored tree, even awesomer photo of it.

vintage travel brochure - Dresden 1930

HUGE collection of vintage travel brochures!

lumber

Love the way the type interacts with the enviornment.

Leslie David design

Leslie David does good design.

Mitten's Movie Titlers

Would love to see more of these Mitten’s Movie Titlers in use.

Stas Polyakov design

Nice work by Stas Polykov.

Polatype

Polatype, a nice little collection of polaroid type photos.

Rebel Green package design

Really nice package design for Rebel Green by Wink.

Things I liked last week #4

These are some things I liked last week, click on the images to be taken to their sources.



Really innovative animation style using strips of paper, nice song as well.

Toast Brutality ad

Clever ad, I hate mangled toast!

Bug

I never knew a rat could be this beautiful, it makes me want one. The colors and bokeh on this photo are flawless.

Jet Age

I love the colors in this vintage illustrated ad from a 1960 issue of Fortune.

Central Park love

I wonder what the story is with these central park benches, I guess the fun comes in imagining it.

Tutti Frutti

Fun wood type letterpress print, such a perfect word for playing with wood type.

Elephant and castle logo

Very nice logo, these dual image logos are so hard to pull off this well.

The Juggernaut

Really interesting type design for this building, I love the slim counters and tight kerning.

Happy Together

Really cute illustration based on one of my favorite songs.

Archer and Gotham on wood signs

The Archer and Gotham typefaces are looking really nice on these hand painted wooden signs. Does anybody know the font on the top sign?

Typography Photography Vol. 5, 10 breathtaking photos of interesting type

Back by popular demand I am bringing back “Typography Photography”, where I showcase some of the best photography that includes nice typography as its subject. I’m just a curator here, and all credit is due to the actual photographers and designers of the typography they photographed. Be sure to click on the images to go to their respective homes on Flickr if you wish to let the photographer know your appreciation.

Previously: {Vol. 4}, {Vol. 3}, {Vol. 2} and {Vol. 1}

And now, the photos…

Typography Photography - Brighton Fur Storage

In this photo of Brighton Certified Cold Fur Storage the white type pops against the dark red bricks, and I love the way a script font lies in between the condensed sans serifs. The script font is a nice one and I like the truncated top of the lower-case f.

Typography Photography - Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

This Co. (from the words Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Co.) is a nice crop because it is still highly recognizable as part of Coca-Cola’s name. The colors in the photo are muted and that gives the lettering a syrupy color that reminds me even more of coke. The little curl of the metal arm that pokes into the sky is similar to the curls in the type, and is a nice way to tie the bottom half and the top half together.

Typography Photography - Auto

This photo of a word cropped to read as AUTO almost looks like a landscape painting. There are many beautiful layers in the background with the trees, hills, fog, white capped mountain, and intense blue sky. In front of all of it is a bright red and bold word with a natural drop shadow that may be obscuring some natural beauty, but at the same time interacting with nature in a beautiful way.

Typography Photography - Ziegfeld Theatre

The lettering on the wall for Ziegfeld Theatre is another one of white text on bricks, but this time the brick is a beige color. You might think this would result in minimal contrast, but in this case the dark sides of the deep extrusion give the letters plenty of contrast while the white on beige scheme evokes classiness. I love the little bird’s nest that seems to be in the bottom of the lowercase f.

Beauty World

The sign for Beauty World is apparently old and falling apart, and you can tell that even in its prime it wasn’t exactly the most beautiful lettering (very strange “A” and “Y”). The inclusion of the old and crusty looking lot really reinforces the sense of irony. However, the double irony in this is that capturing this scene in a nice photo has now brought beauty to it in my opinion.

Typography Photography - Thrift Shop

This photo of a thrift shop’s sign is just really nice to look at. I love the rusty white letters against the vertically striped, faded teal wall. The type is very cute and quirky itself, and I like how the vertically extended letter forms interact with the vertical stripes of the background. I especially love how the counters on the lowercase “f” disappear, the bar on the “t” stretches out over the “h”, and the tail on the “p” goes straight through it.

Typography Photography - 202

This 202 address on a house is a stark contrast with the thrift store lettering above. The numbers are very geometric and balanced, the white and the black are both very clean, and the horizontal lines create a grid for the type to sit on. Even the structure of the photo is minimal and clean, whereas the thrift store photo had an odd shadow in the corner, and upper and lower layers peeking in around the main wall. Both do a great job of matching the style of the lettering with the composition of the photo.

Typography Photography - Jellico Motel

The sign for Jellico Motel has those nice generic black letters on white panels and the blue rectangle with the word “restaurant” in white neon lights. It reminds me of countless forgettable motels along the highways in America. The inclusion of the scenery shows how a generic motel sign gets its individuality through it’s surroundings. I love how the foggy background reminds of those early mornings when you are checking out of the motel before most people are even awake because you have an adventure to continue.

Typography Photography - Glam

Here’s another photo with a sense of irony, the broken down neon letters from Las Vegas that spell out the word “GLAM“. There is nothing glamorous about the discarded and beat-up letters, but perhaps it is an unintentional comment on the effect living the Vegas lifestyle eventually has on people.

Typography Photography - Meetings

I just love this photo of the word “Meetings” for it’s subtle imperfections. The washed out color, the texture on the wall and letters, the erratic paneling on the wall, and the horrible kerning all provide an interesting contrast with the cleanliness and structure usually associated with Helvetica. As a bonus, I didn’t notice until recently that this photo was taken by Antonio of AisleOne. He’s been talking about getting an SLR soon, and I can’t wait to see what he does with that!

Things I liked last week #3

These are some things I liked last week, click on the images to be taken to their sources.

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Mid-Century La Petite Swedish Matches

These were apparently “luxury” matches and by the looks of them I’m not going to argue.

low battery

This was directly linked to the .jpg in the tumblr post, I wish I knew the original source. It’s simple, but dead on.

take me far

Interesting type integrated into a nice photo. I want to try this but I never know what words to use.

Beware of chance Acquaintances

Ok, this one just made me laugh. How do I join the American Society For Social Hygiene?

la mia primavera

Superb minimalism, great natural gradient, and I just love purple-y photos these days.

design on hand

I think from the comment on the picture that this design is being made with chocolate, but don’t quote me on that. I just think it’s really intricate and something I could never do. (Edit: It’s actually Henna, my first thought but the comments threw me off)

Count on Color

I want that mint green one so bad.

Spreadtweet

Clever site design with the code appearing to be behind the page.

Lennon - Instant Karma

Great minimal design for this Lennon album.

bike

Reminds me of an asian woodblock print.

Catacumba typeface promotional video



Love the idea of creating a video to promote the upcoming typeface Catacumba. I really like the regular and italic weights, it very much evokes a cheesy spooky feel without resorting to blood drips, distortion, and such.

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Things I liked last week #2

finland
So sublime

Chairs by window
I want to go to there



Really impressive stop motion, I love tiny bits of hand cut paper

Bauhaus Book
Nice book cover, intelligent write-up about the book as well

Invisible
White text on soft colored photographs is so hot right now

Looking for a place in the memory...
Love the beams of light

Avant Didot
Interesting combination of two of my favorite fonts

Ampersand Book
From a nice looking hand crafted Ampersand book

Future
Just made me laugh

Remember, click on the images to be taken to their source. More “Things I liked last week” posts.

Vintage business cards

Vintage business card 1

vintage business card 2

I enjoyed clicking through this nice collection of vintage business cards shared by designer Becca Eley (who also happens to have some nice work in her portfolio that is worth checking out). I especially loved the type in the upper image that I posted, which turns out to be a typeface called Treasury.

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