Anyone know where the last month went? If so please let me know. So much to share… so little time. Well, lets start with this, a simple and cool little app that can change your Ipod into either an ice cream truck, race car, or old man in a boat (My favourite!)
Makego from Chris O’Shea on Vimeo.
Fotoshop by Adobé, A Satirical Look at the Beauty Industry - via Laughing Squid.
The secrets of the language of stamps. For all those who are in the situation of Hero and Leander, and similarly to them can only exchange secret signs about the feelings of their hearts, here we publish the secrets of the language of stamps. If the stamp stands upright in the upper right corner of the card or envelope, it means: I wish your friendship. Top right, across: Do you love me? Top right, upside down: Don’t write me any more. Top right, thwart: Write me immediately. Top right, upright [once more again???]: Your love makes me happy. Top left, across: My heart belongs to someone else. Top left, upright: I love you. Bottom left, across: Leave me alone in my grief. In line with the name: Accept my love. Same place, across: I wish to see you. Same place, upside down: I love someone else. – We hope that besides the inventor of the “new language” there would be other persons too who would eventually use it.
Now, there could be many reasons for is. Here are two I can think of:
1. Fox really has it out for the Democrats and showing anything positive from the Obama Administration is a no no.
2. The graphic designers are complete idiots.
While I’d like to believe this is an honest mistake, clear and continuous evidence shows the opposite. We are talking about a news organization whose mantra is so honed, so controlled. Speaking as a graphic designer, I have never in my career built a graph without some type of software, especially where the data increments are in the decimals. And no software I’d use would create such a skewed result such as this.
Here is a more accurate version of the graph:
I can picture the Conversation:
Designer: “Here are the graphs you requested according to the data you sent me.”
Director: “Hmm, yeah, can’t have that. Policy. Make the last dip in the graph as subtle as possible… like… this.” (draws straight horizontal line)
Designer: “Really?, um… ok”
…shows new graph…
Director: “Perfect!”
Fox News: Fair and Balanced
It began at the Jersey Shore in 1998, where my niece Jessica often filled my sketchbook with doodles. While I stared at them, I wondered if color, texture and shading could be applied for a 3D effect. As a painter, I made cartoons look three dimensional every day for the likes of Marvel and DC comics, so why couldn’t I apply those same techniques to a kid’s drawing? That was it… no research, no years of toil, just the curiosity of seeing Jessica’s drawings come to life.
This is incredible to me because my own son loves doodling and drawing. I envy his complete freedom of creativity because his only critic, really, is himself!
Here is another craftsman at work. Just brilliant. It truly makes me happy that people still possess these type of skills. No machine or robot could ever reproduce this type of quality.
Handmade Portraits: The Sword Maker from Etsy on Vimeo.
This is exactly what amazes me about design. A simple, well designed symbol can become the very essence of an entity/organization. By the sounds of it, the company itself really had to think about adopting this symbol. Obviously the gamble paid off.
My second choice for a career was a carpenter of some sort. Came very close to studying it instead of graphics. I love well designed, and especially, well built furniture.
This chap from New York fell into his career after stumbling a bit as a writer. Sometimes life just works out certain ways, no matter how hard you plan. His spirit seems very happy.
Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker from Made by Hand on Vimeo.
A little over a year ago we started branding our good friend Konrad as the newly minted FreshSox. One of the final elements of his brand to get produced was his business card. During the design process, we knew we wanted to go the letterpress route. The tactile quality, vibrant colours and overall aesthetic has always appealed to us. We recently met Nicholas Kennedy at Trip Print Press (tripprintpress.ca)here in Toronto. We were so wowed with his work and amazing shop from day one, we found each subsequent visit was getting longer and longer. It’s the kind of place you don’t want to leave. It was a perfect storm of opportunity to record both the process of this new brand coming to life and the inner workings of a truly amazing letterpress shop.
Trip Print Press & The Making Of FreshSox from Brought To You By … on Vimeo.
http://tripprintpress.ca/
