Monthly Archives: July 2008

Flip book calendar of tree losing leaves

July 29, 2008 – 5:23 pm

This calendar booklet contains a lovely flip book animation of a tree losing its leaves. It’s a nice and simple vector illustration and the type work on the cover is beautiful as well. It was designed by Tomato Kosir, who has a lot more fantastic design work in his portfolio.

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Film Design book

July 28, 2008 – 11:00 am

The stlye of this book, called Film Design, is incredible. I love the great use of the grid system and the black and white color scheme. I found it in insect54’s Flickr account which contains a wealth of great images of graphic design books and posters.

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Ingeborg typeface family

July 25, 2008 – 5:17 pm

Michael Hochleitner designed this beautiful typeface family called Ingeborg (link goes to PDF specimen booklet) as part of his program for a Master of Arts in Typeface Design at the University of Reading. I especially love the swashes in the fat italic font. I can’t seem to see any place to purchase it [...]

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Water and cornstarch on a booming subwoofer

July 24, 2008 – 11:32 pm

I wish a had a speaker powerful enough to do this myself.
Via Steven O. Sloan

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Quality design work by the young greysheepduo

July 24, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Digital artist and graphic designer “greysheepduo” is putting out some interesting and quality design work. The incredible part is that it appears that he’s still in high school! I can’t wait to see what he comes up with in the future. Check out his design collection on Flickr.

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Detailed patterns in line drawings by Pedro Lucena

July 23, 2008 – 11:00 am

Pedro Lucena creates some beautiful line drawings full of intricate detail and patterns. Be sure to click on the tree image above to see a larger version for the full detail, it’s worth it. Check out his sets on Flickr for more work.

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Coffee stains

July 22, 2008 – 11:00 am

Design student Steven Sloan made this little type rendering of the word “coffee” from, well…, coffee. It’s pretty simple, but elegant and eye pleasing. I found it on his nice little blog.

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Typography inspired Pinewood Derby car

July 20, 2008 – 11:42 pm

The Columbus Society of Communicating Arts recently held a fun looking Pinewood Derby contest. I especially love the “Typemobile” pictured above. As a former 3 time champion in my Cub Scout years, it combines the fun I had making Pinewood Derby cars as a youth, with my current design obsession as an adult. [...]

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If an ad agency today had to design the stop sign

July 20, 2008 – 1:31 am

This is pretty funny, but mostly sad because of how true it is.
Via Hello Bauldoff

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Vintage mixed media art on wood by Netherland Art

July 17, 2008 – 11:00 am

Netherland Art has created some pretty groovy art pieces using collage materials, acrylics, and resin on a wood surface. I love when art is done on a nice slab of grainy wood, and he really knows how to work that 70’s rainbow.

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