Let’s get the full disclosure ickyness out of the way: I’ve got work in Rockport’s recently released Really Good Logos, Explained. But there are plenty of other good reasons to pick up this book in addition to the siren song of seeing Tokyo Farm’s goodness in print. Really Good Logos, Explained isn’t the standard grid-after-grid [...]
Paula Scher has updated her very well known identity for The Public Theater, and Pentegram has a very interesting look at how the identity has evolved over the last 14 years.
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MyFonts, a well known online type retailer and resource, started a great monthly newsletter late last year called Creative Characters in which they interview type designers from various well known foundries. As both a fan and frequent user of his work, I was thrilled to see that this month’s newsletter features Nick Curtis of the [...]
This is a little old (at least, in internet terms) so apologies to those that have seen it, but designer Nicholas Feltron produces a recap of his life every year in the form of an annual report, and the 2007 edition is a beaut’. You can also order a print edition, and at a measly [...]
YouTube user bhilmers created this pretty fantastic school project imagining what it may’ve been like if Saul Bass had designed the opening credits for Star Wars.
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Thanks to Colleen and the KERNSPIRACY list for pointing to this Vanity Fair slideshow of three dozen vintage lobby cards from the collection of late screenwriter Leonard Schrader. Interestingly, Schrader kept his collection of over eight thousand pristinely archived lobby cards a secret! Vanity Fair has a short article detailing their discovery, and the collection [...]
Here’s yet another awesome Flickr pool. Do they ever end? This one’s called “I Love My Electric Appliance!” and is full of fantastic vintage advertising reference that’s just ripe for “homage.”
The shady bastard that was ‘07 has gone the way of the dodo, and in preparation for ‘08 I’m cleaning out the Tokyo Farm attic. As a result, I’ve decided that January’s KERNSPIRACY gathering will be our 1st Annual New Year’s Junk Swap. I’ll be bringing along a few design-related items and books that I [...]
Flickr user bigdaddyhame has posted an unbelievable set of vintage travel posters from the 50’s and 60’s:
I found a collection of over 200 35mm Kodachrome slides of travel and marketing posters from the 1950’s and 1960’s. There are some real gems in here!
I’ve done my best to identify them however quite a number are in [...]
If you’ll all pardon my course language, I think you’ll agree that this belongs in the “Holy Fucking Awesome” category:
Croatian creative agency Bruketa & Zinić have designed an annual report for food company Podravka that has to be baked in an oven before it can be read.
Even discounting the ridiculously good concept, the design looks [...]
