From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Tasty Typography For The Five Senses

September 16, 2009

Take a long look at this eye candy from BYU design students and faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. Creative Director Brent Barson and friends take you through a visual typographic feast exploring the five senses, and how they contribute to and enhance our creativity. All of the processes here are super organic and [...]

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24 Images. One Cool Little Portfolio.

September 16, 2009

Whether used as a tiny portfolio, a compact, durable photo album, or a promotional piece, memolios are a great new way to present your images. Beautifully printed on crumple and water resistant stock, these little fellas are easy to create using their intuitive memoliator web app. Upload your images. Arrange and personalize them to your [...]

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Credit Card In The “ON” Position

September 16, 2009

I just spotted these brilliant On/Off Switch magnets over at Molla Space. A set of 4 is $16 and for some reason, I feel like that is a very reasonable price for something that I do not need. If you’re into $5 coffee drinks or going to Whole Foods when you’re hungry, you’ll feel right [...]

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Print Your Own iPhone Dock

September 16, 2009

Well designed + Beautiful + Free. French designer Julien Madérou has been kind enough to fashion this fancy iPhone and iPod Touch dock from a single piece of paper. Simply head over to his site, print the template onto a slice of your finest cardstock and dig that X-Acto knife out from the back of the [...]

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Are People Ready To Accept Video Games As Art?

September 13, 2009

If you’ve never properly let the Beatles into your heart, or you find the casual use of video games to be beneath you, than you’re best served by skipping this post altogether. As a firm believer in the potential of video games or at least some evolved form of interactive escapism, I’ve continued to wonder [...]

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Apparently, Baraquiel Is Not Cheese

September 13, 2009

The link to this site has been making it’s way around the design-centric blogosphere and twitterverse this past week, but if it hasn’t found you yet, I’d like to present… the Cheese or Font game. The name, I’m sure is self explainatory, the answers however are anything but overt. Give it a go at CheeseOrFont.com. [...]

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Alejandro Paul Keeps the Lovely Type Coming

September 11, 2009

Simply put, I am a Sudtipos, and specifically an Ale Paul fanboy. There is just something about this Argentinean’s work that makes me really happy (as indicated by my use of Affair in the current masthead). Ale’s newest face, Semilla, which is Spanish for seed, showed up on Veer this week with organic, sprouting swashes [...]

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It’s Not About Ideas. It’s About Making Ideas Happen.

September 10, 2009

If you are even a casual fan of TED Talks, than you had to be more than a little impressed by the lectures that came out of last year’s 99% Conference. Described as the think tank behind the Behance Network, 99% finally launched their website this week, and it is an impressive collection of  proven [...]

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I Can’t Stop Watching This…

September 7, 2009

Recently, photographer and filmmaker Chase Heavener spent an afternoon with letterpress ninja Nick Sambrato and his 2,000 lb., cast iron Kluge Letterpress. The result is this indescribably beautiful video of vacillating rods, giant spinning wheels and pneumatic hoses, which Nick refers to as “Printer’s Porn”. If the piece leaves you wanting more (and it will) [...]

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The Stage Is Yours. The Slides Aren’t.

September 7, 2009

After almost 30 years, and perhaps millions of painfully dry “integrated workflow” presentations, Imation Corp. has mercifully given Microsoft’s PowerPoint a reason to be celebrated. Originally founded in 2005 by a small group of German artists, the game is called PowerPoint Karaoke, and in the hands of some brilliant designers (as demonstrated in the video [...]

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