I’m not sure exactly what Official Classic is, but I do know that it is a bundle of awesome design work. I love the classic feel of the work, it just makes me a happier person when I see it. I enjoyed all the work there, but I thought the font designs were displayed in a particularly interesting manner.
I love this packaging for the Childhood issue of A5 Magazine (warning: annoying browser resize). I’ve just heard of the magazine itself and it looks really interesting. They announce a theme and then anyone can submit works of art and design based on the theme. You can then buy the magazine, which features the curated works in A5 size. The idea is great, but their packaging is amazing. See more photos of their previous issues at their Flickr page.
Jane McDevitt of Maraid Design just uploaded a set of old British wresting posters. I love studying old wresting and boxing posters because of how, um… enthusiastic the designers were about typography. Most turn out to be lovably ugly, but occasionally it works in an odd way, like in the example above. Either way, it’s a good way to study typographic tricks for establishing hierarchy, as long as you can keep in mind that it doesn’t work so much to use all of them at the same time.
After seeing more and more referrals to my stuff coming from Twitter, I’m starting to think that I’ve got to get in on that action. Yeah, I’m pretty much an internet junkie now. Anyways, if you want to follow me, you can do so here: Gentle Pure Space Twitter. I’m just feeling it out right now, but I’m sure I’ll be a pro in no time. By the way, it was this gem that finally amused me enough to get me to give in:
“HDR is to photography what Thomas Kincade is to painting. And I don’t mean that in a good way” -jamesarcher
I love the coffee antlers and the heart shaped newspaper clippings in this collage by Mary Virginia Carmack.
Via Steven O. Sloan
Frank Juery has some amazing photography; especially in his Polaroid collections (middle row: 1, 2 and 4). I love when photos make me feel like I’m in a childhood dream.
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.
The music video for Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie is so whimsically beautiful, and I really love the song too (mmm….plinky piano synth sounds). It’s definitely worth clicking the “watch in high quality” link on the youtube page.
Via Black*Eiffel
Gentle Pure Space is now a whole year old! The above image is just a typographic photography experiment I’ve done recently. I don’t know if my blog is important enough to get all nostalgic on the readers yet, but some of my personal highlights were:
1) Getting mentioned on some of my most inspirational blogs, like I Love Typography, Swissmiss, Black*Eiffel and Chris Glass.
2) Surpassing my goal of 100 subscribers in a year.
3) Getting some of my posted images ffffound, especially when one of my own photographs got ffffound.
4) And Mostly, seeing all the neat stuff on the internet that maintaining a blog forces me to dig through.
Thanks to all my readers, hope you guys have been inspired now and then.
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, but I guess it happens. Check out his blog as well if you are interested.