Panasonic Note
07/19/10
Absolutely brilliant packaging for Pansonic’s Note headphones by Scholz & Friends in Germany.
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100 Years Of Propaganda
07/01/10
An interesting look at the last century of political/war propaganda around the world. I’d love to see a collection of non-war propaganda. I think a lot of advertising (especially in the political and non-profit realm borders on propaganda. The distinction is that the propaganda has to intend to mislead, not simply persuade/influence.
Haiku Pickup Lines
06/28/10
I remember Joshua Blankenship announcing his appropriately named (and beautifully designed) Tumblr, Haiku Pickup Lines but forgot to check it out until @hemeon mentioned it yesterday.
Great stuff. Clever, funny, and even a couple romantic ones.
Houston Hi-Tech in a Small Space
06/04/10
This apartment is all of 500 square feet, but it’s absolutely stunning. Chris Nguyen has an amazing attention to detail. I could move in tomorrow and I wouldn’t want to change a thing.
Be sure to click Enter the Tech Tour for lots of great photos.
How To Design A Two-Room Apartment With Style
05/02/10
I have a small apartment (smaller than this one, believe it or not). I wish my place looked half as good as this. I’ve got some work to do.
Animal Trivia
by Jason Sweeney
04/20/10
I’m a big @sween fan on the Twitter. And his tumblr is excellent too, overall. More specifically, though, he has been collecting some of his captioned animal illustrations under the tag, Animal Trivia. They’re excellent.
Not Your Average Site…
04/10/10
Designer (and Illustrator) Cameron Moll is running a few contests to promote the sale of his beautiful Colosseo print. The image and link above is from Phil Coffman’s entry. It’s not your average site. Be sure to click the light switch when you check it out.
Gowalla for iPad
04/09/10
I’m a big Gowalla fan. It’s a gorgeous app and the icon (they call them items) gaming element is what hooked me.
I’m also incredibly excited to start designing apps for Apple’s new iPad. If you’re a ui/ux designer and you’re not excited, you probably haven’t seen this thing in person yet.
Keegan Jones from Gowalla posted a set of behind-the-scenes photos of their new app for the iPad. It’s beautiful—and it takes me places in my head: what will a Facebook app for this device look like? How about a recipe app, or schematics for repairing stuff? If you can dream up something for this incredible 10-inch screen, you can make it happen in a way that you couldn’t on either the desktop or a mobile phone. And that is why I’m so excited.
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The New Carbonmade(.com)
04/06/10
- Fact 1: Unicorns make it better.
- Fact 2: Dave Gorum is good at making the internet.
I did a stint at the beginning of the year helping out the amazing Carbonmade guys (and have another one coming up shortly). It was fun to watch Dave cook up their new marketing site as I was working on other stuff. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you owe it to yourself to take a look. Carbonmade is a web app that serves up online portfolios for its users, but the site is wonderfully unlike every other web app site out there, and that’s kind of the point.
Alan van Roemburg
03/31/10
I think I ran across Alan’s work because he followed me on Twitter. His stuff is beautiful – especially his marks and icon illustrations. I also love his simple, grid-tastic site.
sneak peek: fitzhugh & lyndsay
of the brooklyn home co.
03/26/10
I know I’m a fan of hyperbole on this blog, but wow. This is one of the most amazing homes I’ve seen. I’m really into the abundance of white with natural wood touches. There’s also a few repurposed or stylized boat/marine lighting fixtures that I’m really in love with.
(via @piraja)
Pete Usborne
03/19/10
I don’t remember how I cam across Pete Usborne’s site, but he has some of the most beautiful work I’ve seen in a while.
super_furry
03/18/10
This guy’s name isn’t even on his Flickr profile, but I’ve fallen in love with his hand-drawn typography and mark design. Excellent stuff. There’s some good illustration in there too.
(via @lifterbaron)
Blogoliolio
by Ben Newman
03/16/10
Illustrator Ben Newman has a fun, colorful style and he shares a lot of his work on his blog. I especially love his character development.
(via @lifterbaron)
The Ship and The Sea
A new album by The Autumn Film
03/15/10
My friends (and clients) The Autumn Film have released their second full-length album: The Ship and The Sea.
I’ve gotten to work on the album packaging and their online presence, including this nifty little micro-site.
If you haven’t given the album a listen yet, you have until the end of the day to stream the entire thing from theshipandthesea.com, so you have no excuses, check it out.
Vicarious.ly
by SimpleGeo
03/11/10
Nice work by my SimpleGeo friends. The Boulder-based company has put together a little microsite that showcases their ability to cache and stream an enormous amount of geo-location data. For the next week or so you can watch live checkins in Austin for SXSW, as they happen, from services such as Gowalla, foursquare, and BrightKite.
The “geo-location wars” might just be heating up, but these are the guys who will be doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the background.
HTML5 Video Player
by SublimeVideo
02/02/10
This is a fantastic implementation showing just how things might work with HTML5 handling video in the near future instead of Flash. It also works on the iPhone too (of course).
NOTE: If you’re using the latest Webkit nightly build, alt-click the “expand” icon and it will go full-screen.
I can’t wait for Firefox to catch up a bit and between the modern 3 (Safari, Chrome, Firefox), it’ll make sense to start implementing entire sites this way.
(via Daring Fireball)
Digitally Fabricated Bookshelf
by dbd Studio
01/20/10
I’m fascinated by this custom bookshelf. It takes over and provides character for the room. If it was mine, I would probably glue some books into the slots on the ceiling just to mess with people. Be sure to check out the making of video on the Contemporist site.
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