The people at Dentsu London came up with this brilliant method for using cross sections of 3D type on a iPad along with long camera exposures to create an interesting new way of making still frame animations with painted light. The video explains the process and then gets into the actual animation.
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!
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Love the idea of creating a video to promote the upcoming typeface Catacumba. I really like the regular and italic weights, it very much evokes a cheesy spooky feel without resorting to blood drips, distortion, and such. Via we love typography