The amazing design book collector/sharer Jonathan Turner (insect54) started a Flickr group called Autografik for images of vehicles with modern graphic design applied to them. There’s a lot of good stuff in there and the group is just getting started!
I saw this “COLD GOODS” mini fridge and I just had to share it. My buddy Jonny bought some cheap and ugly mini fridge on Craigslist and decided to turn it into pretty much the awesomest mini fridge ever made.
I like where this series of simplified insects and bugs based on the golden ratio is going. It’s being made by Graphic Nothing, who describes his own work as “Retro Futuristic Folk Graphics – until that is, I can think of an even more absurd pretentious description.”
Here are some nice things that have caught my eye on the internet recently. As always, click on the image to go to it’s source. Great atmosphere in this typographic polaroid photo by Harpy. I love the cover for this 1975 Soviet Children’s Encyclopedia. This is “Technics & Manufacture”, there are also images for “Foreign [...]
Just a bit of catching up, here are some things I liked over my hectic summer. Click on the images to go to their source. Something about this Concorde ticket holder from 1963 just awes me. I can’t remember what my recent ticket holders looked like but I know none of them were this beautiful. [...]
The colors! The pinwheel! The weathered type! What’s not to love about this photo of a drive thru sign for a Charlie’s Mongolian Barbeque taken by designer and photographer Jesse Southerland.
The Moontree Letterpress blog has started up a reader appreciation tradition of giving away a print every Monday. Of course, you have to earn it by doing something like captioning an illustration, or writing a 6 word story based on a theme and replying with your entry in the form of a comment on the [...]
There’s some great stuff in this gallery of posters designed for Flight of the Concords’ Spring 2009 tour.
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. Great color and texture in this illustration. Kyle Poff does some nice identity designs. Love these artistic handmade [...]
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. Via We Love You So