Category Archives: Design Inspiration

Golden ratio insects and bug illustrations

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.”

Things I’ve recently liked #8

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 [...]

Things I’ve recently liked #7

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. [...]

Monday giveaways at Moontree Letterpress

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 [...]

Gallery of posters for Flight of the Concords shows

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. Great color and texture in this illustration. Kyle Poff does some nice identity designs. Love these artistic handmade [...]

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. [...]

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. Clever ad, I hate mangled toast! I never knew a rat could be this beautiful, it makes me want one. The colors and bokeh on [...]

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 [...]

Things I liked last week #3

These are some things I liked last week, click on the images to be taken to their sources. {More “Things I liked last week” posts.} These were apparently “luxury” matches and by the looks of them I’m not going to argue. This was directly linked to the .jpg in the tumblr post, I wish I [...]