I was struck by this minimally designed Beach Boys button for some reason. There’s an odd to beauty to it’s purity that I think relates to the way I feel about the music of that time. I found this while poking around through Peter Denton’s nostalgia collection on Flickr.
I’m really loving the vintage graphic style that Jordan Gray has going on. He uses type and colors really nicely in my opinion, and it was hard to pick one image to post (so you get three). I can’t believe that a lot of my favorites are versions that didn’t get used by the client, [...]
I remember seeing this beard illustration that was inspired by Milton Glaser’s Bob Dylan illustration. Well, now it is available as a poster from Beard Revue. If I didn’t currently have a surplus of art waiting around to be hung on my already crowded walls, this would be a must buy for me. Via Anyways.us
Qamar Ramzan is a London based graphic designer that also is a pretty good portrait photographer. I especially love the custom drawn Arabic type on the above poster.
Cristiana Couciero has a unique style of graphic art that she posts to her blog. She creates digital collages, but the graphics she appropriates are taken from mid-century modern designs and her compositions feel minimal and structured yet layered and abstract. It’s a very distinctive style and I love seeing things in them like the [...]
Since I didn’t end up getting a calendar for Christmas, I just bought this letterpress seasonal wall calendar from ave9river. A seasonal calendar is perfect for a calendar page flipping procrastinator like me. Ave9river makes very delicate and beautiful letterpress designs. I also loved her snowbird holiday card design.
Erstlaub, a musician/designer friend of mine, designed this humorous set of cynical Christmas cards. Although I’m not so cynical about the holidays, they still made me laugh, and I love the minimal black Helvetica bold on white design.
Cornelius Bass is a Swedish illustrator from the Feta Typer collective. He posts simple but interesting illustrations to his blog every day so subscribe to it if you like his stuff.
I made this 1680×1050 widescreen desktop wallpaper featuring the Aphex Twin logo for a friend and thought other people might want to use it. It was just a quick thing for fun, so that’s the only size I have, but hopefully it’s useful for a few people.
Designer Kent Henderson had insomnia one night and decided to scan in this wonderful book entitled Examples of Modern Alphabets, Ornamental and Plain from 1864! This is a really fun gallery to click through for anyone interested in vintage woodblock typography or even book design. The amount of detail in the letters is amazing, end [...]