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 [...]
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 rugs by Reuber-Henning.
Wow, Hammerpress [...]
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 [...]
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 this photo [...]
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 a nice looking hand crafted Ampersand book
Just [...]
I enjoyed clicking through this nice collection of vintage business cards shared by designer Becca Eley (who also happens to have some nice work in her portfolio that is worth checking out). I especially loved the type in the upper image that I posted, which turns out to be a typeface called Treasury.
Via design [...]
Francis Qureshi is a photography and graphic design student. I love the mood created by the color in his photos, especially the signs series. So far he only has one example of his design work, but it’s incredible. If this is the early work of a student, I can’t wait to see [...]