Karen Horton’s stamp collection is always intriguing, but I found this recently added Nigerian Peaceful Use of Outer Space stamp to be so amazing that I just had to spotlight it here. The colors, the type, and the illustrations are amazing, and I would marry that gritty background gradient if I could.
Here are some things I’ve recently like enjoyed. Be sure to click on the images if you want to see where they came from! This made me laugh, I don’t think I ever seen anything else brag that the product was so new that the package design wasn’t completed yet. This photo by Heather Raye [...]
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 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.”
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. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
So sublime I want to go to there Really impressive stop motion, I love tiny bits of hand cut paper Nice book cover, intelligent write-up about the book as well White text on soft colored photographs is so hot right now Love the beams of light Interesting combination of two of my favorite fonts From [...]