I love this 80′s-meets-00′s illustration work by Helsinki-based Sakke Soini. They should hire him to do the key art for Tron 2. link» Behance.net: Retro Futurism link» Behance.net: Retro Futurism II link» Sakke Soini on MySpace
NYTimes.com Design Director Khoi Vinh’s take on the Tropicana packaging scandal is notable primarily because he’s the only person I’ve seen addressing the usability problems introduced by Arnell’s revisions to the brand: link » Subtraction: Orange You Sorry About Tropicana? link » NYTimes.com: Tropicana Discovers Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging
“Just another skateboard art show” opening this weekend at HVW8′s gallery space. Featuring work by Winston Tseng, Matt Eversole, Todd Bratrud and Jerry Hsu. link » HVW8 link » enjoi
My wife’s 6th, 7th and 8th grade art students are hand-drawing Valentines Day cards for every student in their middle school. She brought home a batch the other day and they were so charming and inspiring I decided to scan a bunch and put them up on Flickr. Yes, some of them are upside down. [...]
You may have noticed that everything pretty much went to hell at the end of 2008. Unfortunatey, that included all of the big, secret plans that were in the works for groundbreaking KERNSPIRACY events. So, ’09 is all about getting back on track, and we’re starting with a good ol’ fashion “drinks and arm wrestling” [...]
In conjunction with this week’s MacWorld Expo, Linotype has released the latest version of their widely lauded font management application, FontExplorer X. The newly rechristened “FontExplorer X Pro 2.0″ now features CS4 auto-activation and connectivity with the equally new FontExplorer X Server, but unfortunately for current users the formerly freeware app is now going to [...]
For the last two years, it’s been my pleasure to work with my friends from monochrom on collateral and identity components for Arse Elektronika, their now yearly conference covering issues relating to the intersection of sex and technology. This year’s theme is “Do Androids Sleep With Electric Sheep? Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in [...]
Valleywag is reporting that Microsoft is already bailing out on the hotly debated ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld as wacky pals having crrraaaaazzzy adventures. Microsoft is claiming that’s it’s always been the plan to have Seinfeld appear only in the opening salvo of it’s new marketing initiative, but given Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s [...]
Thanks to Caryn at Art Blogging London for pointing out that the first half of Sotheby’s auction of Damien Hirst work has netted a whopping £70,545,100. I’ll save you the trouble; that’s $126,466,216.89 cold, hard American dollars. For only the first half, mind you. I love Hirst, but on a day when the Dow closed [...]
Autumn is all about change so this time around we’re doing something a little different. Our generous friends at Betalevel in Chinatown have graciously offered up their space to host a very special film screening. I’m not tellling you what the movie is yet, but rest assured if you’re a designer you’ve heard of it. [...]
