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.”
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 Countries” and “History” thanks to Flickr user TAKECARE.
This is a very nice retro inspired identity system for “The Terry Shop” created by Ed Nacional.
These Travolta graphics by Curtis Wingate just made me laugh. You really can’t get much more awesomeness into an image.
This is nicely put together, I just wish we were actually as united as this print suggests…
It’s a photo of Ernest Hemmingway kicking a can, and probably one of the most poeticly simple and powerful photos I have ever seen.
Nice use of symmetry in this gig poster for Why? (who happens to be my favorite musician as of now).
Andy Kehoe‘s illustrations are perfect for Autumn, (via anyways.us).
I had said in my last post that I was posting my favorite work by Mark Weaver, but then he had to go and make this beauty!
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. That white on black tightly kerned Concorde is perfect, and I love how the lowercase “i” in “airways” is missing the dot so that the even space between the two words isn’t disrupted.
I don’t much about this, other than that it is some kind of diagram, it’s from 1887, and it’s awesome.
Clever and well executed photo by David Skyes, plus I’m a sucker for balloons.
As most people already know, Mark Weaver does a lot of cool stuff, but this is probably my favorite. EDIT: It’s avaliable as a print on his Etsy store.
Pretty sweet cake design, the noisy iphone photo quality only adds to it in my opinion.
I’m tempted to buy this print of a Sarah Watts illustration for an M. Ward show; that elephant is amazing!
This is totally the type of toy I’d want my future kids to have, but $35 is a little steep. Doesn’t look too hard to make though…
Speaking of cameras, how awesome is this Polaroid Swinger? I’d love to have one just to look at.
Golden Porsche Sessions is still churning out mysterious graphics that delight and intrigue me. That font is beautiful!
This is the winner of a logo contest for the Hugo Awards judged by Irene Gallo, Neil Gaiman, and Chip Kidd. This might be one of my favorite logos ever and for some reason I want to describe it as “charming”.
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.
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 blog post. This weeks 6 word story theme is “The Economy“, and so far my favorite is this one:
The contest ends at 10am ET today, so if you missed it be sure to subscribe to the blog so you’re ready for next Monday!
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 created this amazing wedding invite, its my personal favorite so far!
I can never get enough hot air balloon things.
Ok, I’m kind of tired of the Venn diagram humor, but this one actually got me to smile.
A nice collection of vintage ads promoting unhealthy medicines.
I like these handmade notebooks with a letterpress graphic on the cover, you can find them on Etsy at the moment.
A dreamy photo by m a r i e.
Erin Hanson leaves colorful reminders around her house for herself.
I want a high quality print on this photo soooo badly, I would even pay money for one if I found it.
If you have 7 minutes of spare time and adore Fred Rogers as much as I do, watch this video clip of Mr. Rogers passionately defending PBS to prevent Nixon from cutting their budget in order to fund the Vietnam War.
Via We Love You So
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.
It’s a serif slab, get it?
No photoshopping here, this was actually printed on glass and shattered.
Love this vintage pop can, lots more in this set.
Nice photography by David Foster Nass
Love that shape in this design.
Delicious colors in this photo.
The Poster Dezigner does good posters.
Awesome multi-colored tree, even awesomer photo of it.
HUGE collection of vintage travel brochures!
Love the way the type interacts with the enviornment.
Leslie David does good design.
Would love to see more of these Mitten’s Movie Titlers in use.
Nice work by Stas Polykov.
Polatype, a nice little collection of polaroid type photos.
Really nice package design for Rebel Green by Wink.
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 are flawless.
I love the colors in this vintage illustrated ad from a 1960 issue of Fortune.
I wonder what the story is with these central park benches, I guess the fun comes in imagining it.
Fun wood type letterpress print, such a perfect word for playing with wood type.
Very nice logo, these dual image logos are so hard to pull off this well.
Really interesting type design for this building, I love the slim counters and tight kerning.
Really cute illustration based on one of my favorite songs.
The Archer and Gotham typefaces are looking really nice on these hand painted wooden signs. Does anybody know the font on the top sign?