From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Hang Out With House

May 18, 2010

Anyone claiming to “provide typographic optimism in this age of the lowest aesthetic common denominator” should be on your short list of folks you’d make time to hang out with. You’re in luck, because the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington has seen fit to host a Talkin’ Type lecture at the Center for Digital [...]

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THIS Is All About YOU

May 18, 2010

As if the idea of working for Herman Miller wasn’t alluring enough, western Michigan’s Fairly Painless Advertising created this gorgeous animated piece to not only tell people about a brilliant place to work, but remind Herman Miller employees they’ve already found one. Who needs an HR department when you have content like this?

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Fritz Gets a Facelift

May 15, 2010

I don’t think I saw the 1926 ”Man As Industrial Palace” poster until I was in college, but I remember looking at those cogs, cables, and conveyor belts for a very long time, loving the industrial connections. Illustrator Fritz Kahn drew direct functional analogy between human physiology and the operation of contemporary technologies, especially industrial machines [...]

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Lipstick on a Pig

May 15, 2010

Created by the good folks at InfoGraphicWorld, this towering design does a great job of detailing the facts, events, and projections that continue to develop in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s a beautiful look at something that is becoming indescribably gross. Were I to begin spouting off about my feelings on the disaster, this post [...]

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New Color

May 14, 2010

Have you ever wondered where the trusty Pantone book on your desk was born? This rare, behind the scenes video from Pantone not only shows the development of the new Pantone Plus Series, but offers up a tantalizing glimpse of the one of a kind printing press responsible for every swatch book on the market. [...]

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Don’t Tread On Me

May 13, 2010

I’m a sucker for a phenomenal infographic, and this one from Wired UK illustrating the outcome of next month’s World Cup as predicted by a formula based on the GDP of each country is a real beauty. While SectionDesign‘s (always brilliant) work is fundamentally rooted in statistical fact, I’m pretty sure everybody knows that the [...]

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Art & Artists On The Brink

May 13, 2010

Beautifully filmed during the three week making of Stella Artois’ ’Ritual Project‘, Malcolm Murray’s Up There reveals the artistry, sacrifice and passion of hand-painted advertising. This dying craft, and the incredible artists that struggle to keep it alive are revealed in this amazing documentary that painstakingly captures the creation of a 20 x 50 foot stop-frame [...]

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Pixel Perfect

May 13, 2010

Maybe, it’s just the wave of adolescent nostalgia that washes over me whenever I see Donkey Kong, but this short film from motion graphics master Patrick Jean really made me happy. I think it’s much more likely that this is simply wonderful work from a visual effects company with a reputation for top-tier execution. Paris [...]

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