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 what he comes up with in the future.
I’m trying something new where every Sunday I will hopefully post a smattering of things that I recently liked, but didn’t want to dedicate an entire post to. Click on the image to go to it’s source.
I really love the colors and type in this old cookbook page scanned in by Pete Ryan.
Urban Spectacles consists of hand carved glasses frames made of wood. The glasses are beautiful and unique, I just wish the photos and website would do them justice.
Via myturtleneck (a very promising newish blog)
After a long stressful few days this video was just the thing I needed. CS-S-S-S-S…
So I was searching around, trying to figure out how to get my Google Reader to alphabetize my subscriptions list because it makes it easier for me to find a specific site when I want to. It used to do it automatically every time I added a new feed, but a while back it stopped, and just put them on the bottom of the list as I added them.
After researching, I discovered that if you use drag and drop to move feeds around in your list, it stops sorting by alphabet, so I figured I must have done that on accident at some point (because I didn’t even know about the drag and drop feature to begin with). As I googled for a solution, it seemed that most people never discovered how to switch it back, but after poking around in my Google Reader interface for a while I finally figured it out and smacked myself in the forehead because it was so easy.
Anyways, this is not the type of thing I usually post on my blog, but I thought I’d share for those that were as confused about this as I was.
I’m loving this technique that Luke Roberts is exploring that he calls Freelensing. In his words, it is:
“Photos taken with the lens detached from the camera but held in place and moved around to focus. This also lets extra light in sometimes causing light leaks and giving a vintage look and feel.”
Also:
* Gives extra bokeh by shrinking the area in focus (apeture is 0)
* Allows for super macro shots
* Delicious light leaks
* Tilt-shift effects
Above is a high definition video of him moving the lens around and focusing on things, and it kind of shows the exciting organic and hard to control effect it produces. There’s also a small Freelensing pool were a few other people are experimenting with this.
This Exercising Together album cover from 1982 has to be the most fabulous thing I have seen in weeks. I love how they are shamelessly trying to cash in on the E.T. movie’s hype. I found this while browsing through Flickr user IAAFOTS’s collection of vintage and retro imagery. Thanks to Mid-Century Modernist for pointing me in his direction.
I just heard about Obama unveiling the new logos for the ARRA and TIGER programs. Not only are they awesome, but they were done by some awesome people, namely Chris Glass (who has a knack for finding great things on the internet) and Aaron Draplin (who amused me greatly in this rant about bad design in America). Congrats to these guys, it must be an amazing feeling!
I just discovered Ellen McFadden’s huge collection of historical graphic design images on Flickr. Not only is there a lot to look at, but most of them are available in high resolution. Also, she adds very interesting and enlightening commentary on each of them that is worth reading as you browse. The two above images were from the New Graphic Design set, and the top one is a cow poster by Joseph Müller-Brockman that I hadn’t seen before, and I adore it.