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.
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.
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 yet, but [...]
I wish a had a speaker powerful enough to do this myself. Via Steven O. Sloan
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.
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.
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.
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. I also [...]
This is pretty funny, but mostly sad because of how true it is. Via Hello Bauldoff
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.