Design
Just added to Design Guide: Gerd Arntz
Inventor of the modern stick figure , visual language, the pictograms for the Munich Olympics and AIGA passenger/pedestrian picture symbols.
Art Deco: Art Deco Architecture at Decopix; Flick’r has 11000+ Art Deco pics; you can look at Art Deco objects in detail at the Victoria and Albert Museum; and finally, Art Deco Illustrations.
Spiekermann at DesignMind discusses the difficulty of designing numbers.
You Are Beautiful: a simple powerful statement. Try cups in fence.
Randy Nakamura: Humbug by Design.
AT&T Bedtime and Airport Lounge starring Martin Scorsese
The 11 stages of developing Pablo Picasso’s Bull.
Best And Worst Of The Web (Business Week)
12 Best Looking Design Galleries.
Logo of the year? A.G. Low
The Law of the Letter (Print). It’s a humid day in January 1998. A car full of Tai Lüe monks rattles into the checkpoint on the sweltering road between Burma and China. The border guards wave the monks through, heedless of contraband. But hidden in the saffron robes of the passenger in the backseat is a key to the Tai Lüe people’s struggle: a USB thumb drive containing the latest version of the Tai language font.
Like the Kurds, the Tai Lüe lack a country of their own. Spread across southern China, northern Thailand, Burma, and Laos, Tai communities have been repressed for decades, their culture pushed underground as those nations’ regimes have sought control over public expressions of “ethnicity.” But after decades of struggle, Tai culture is experiencing an underground renais-sance, and is flourishing once again. Digital technology—and type, in particular—has enabled this resurgence, reinforcing a cultural community that cuts across national borders.
The Design Disease. “As you left the car park you’d see this and it would annoy you, really annoy you, that it wasn’t quite centred and it wasn’t quite justified and it wasn’t left aligned and it wasn’t right aligned. You see sometimes the disease will stop you enjoying things.”
Type is Art (interactive exploration)
Font Conference (College Humor)
Micahel Beirut’s review of Mad Men (AMC) is worth a read, if you aren’t already a fan of the show: Jesus God in heaven! “Not until I know I’m not wasting my time!” From the minute Don launched his this-meeting-is-over bluff, I was on the edge of my seat, and my lovely wife Dorothy will tell you that I literally clapped my hands at that line. For me, this sequence is as close to pornography as I ever get to see on basic cable.
Icare motorcycle concept (Core77)
Trailer for Making Faces: Jim Rimmer.
TATTOOS AND COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT: CELEBRITIES,MARKETERS, AND BUSINESSES BEWARE OF THE INK.