THINGS I FIND ON THE WEB
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Flickr Design is a showcase of beautiful graphic design work from flickr.com
Designs are chosen pretty much at the whim of the editor, but usually contain inspiring typography, colors, or unique style (or some combination of the three).
Love for sale by leo_uehara
(credit: Black*Eiffel
P.S. sorry for the lack of posting, I had to take a brain-vacation
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The Knuckle Comb is a retro comb with brass knuckles.
Designed by Ewa Bochen + Maciej Jelsk)
Idea was to design a gift for elegant and fashionable women.Our project combines feminine delicacy with power that characterize modern women. It is a gift-gadget, a hybrid of everyday use object – a comb with knuckle-duster. Use of silver plated metal and organic decoration gives the object vintage character of women’s silver combs from 20′ and knuckle-duster gives it naughty, punk style.Thanks to this strange cobination we received funny, controversial and on the other hand very sexy object, a perfect gift for dynamic and strong women.
(credit: OnePlusInfinity)
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I Love You Forever and Always is a collection of scanned in love letters sent to this guy named Jon.
Very nostalgic of those notebook paper letters from high school.
(credit: Kottke)
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The Buffet Libre DJs : Verbenano No 1
I don’t know when this mix came out, I just happened to go to their myspace page and saw this mix. It actually has a bunch of artists on the the Southern Fried Records label, and other well knowns that I love. I’m really excited the listen to this mix.
Check out other Buffet Libre mixes here, here and here.
Tracklist:
01 The Black Ghosts – Any Way You Choose To Give It (Fake Blood Remix)
02 The Whip – Trash
03 The Sounds – Tony The Beat (Rex The Dog Remix)
04 MSTRKRFT – Street Justice (MSTRKRFT Remix)
05 Riot In Belguim – La Musique
06 Klaxons – Magick (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
07 Surkin – Radio Fireworks (Riot In Belgium Remix)
08 New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream (Comets Remix)
09 Digitalism – Zdarlight (Discodrome Edition)
10 The Teenagers – Homecoming (Guns’n Bombs XTC Remix 1996)
11 Hot Chip – Over And Over (Solid Groove Remix)
12 Justice – Phantom (Faex Re-edit)
13 Simian Mobile Disco – It’s The Beat
14 Guns’n’Bombs – Nothing Is Getting Us Anywhere (Acid Girls Remix)
15 The Requesters – Air Guitar
16 Vicarious Bliss Pop Experience feat. Headbangirl – Together In Electric Dreams
DOWNLOAD VERBENANO NO1 HERE
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Drums of Death + Peaches Mix Tape
Drums of Death has been working with Peaches on some new material for her new album,
I Feel Cream, coming out May 5th. DOD put together a mixtape using some new and old tracks of Peaches. The featured new songs are titled, “Lose You”, “Buck You Like A Billionaire” and “I Feel Cream”.
Listen:
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DOWNLOAD DRUMS OF DEATH + PEACHES HERE
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Designer Spacesick has made a collection of vintage book covers
based on current movies
I love love love vintage books. There are tons of really cool ones,
you can view the whole set here.
(credit: Design Work Life)
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Roo just sent me a link to this: Coraline : The Movie
I’ve never heard of this movie, but it’s directed by, Henry Selick, the same guy who did Nightmare before Christmas. This movie looks magical and it’s out right now.
Trailer 1
Trailer 2 (way more dramatic and creepy)
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The Thermals : “Now We Can See” new single from their album of the same name
Thermals new album is due: due 04/07/09
This is different from their normal punky sound. It’s a big less hardcore and a bit more.. pop-like. This *could* grow on me, we will see.
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DOWNLOAD HERE
(credit: Pitchfork)
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“This is what I think when I see the new Pepsi logo”
By: Lawrence Yang aka Blow At Life
(credit: Avenues)
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NY Times: Michael Bierut on design before computers and how everything has changed since their introduction.
Something that has always fascinated me, I’ve said over and over, how designers use to get by without computers and did EVERYTHING by hand. All those amazing Saul Bass posters I posted, all by hand. Basically anything before the 80′s was done by hand first. The technical skills all these old designers have is amazing. I am lazy in their eyes by using the computer as a tool. It does hinder the process like Bierut mentions in the article. We skip lots of steps and go straight to the computer due to the time allowed for design now (everything is always due ASAP). Because we do that, I think there is definitely a lack of thought put into design now.
It was messy. What we did was a craft, like making a perfect pineapple upside-down cake. Even for an experienced designer, doing simple things demanded methodical, even surgical, procedures.
If a client wanted a revision, it generally took overnight. If the client was in a different time zone, it might take days. Mistakes were costly and occasionally dangerous: many a designer my age has at least one scar as a souvenir of a late-night slip-up with an X-Acto knife. Being a good designer was one thing. Attaining the physical mastery to execute a complex design was another.
Now it took a long time, for designers using the computer, to get really good at it. Anyone looking at a design annual from the 80′s can see that. The funny thing is, in the past few years, designers have been trying to fake that old design handmade look. It doesn’t look so polished and pristine, there is character to it. To my knowledge any designer starting out still has to take a typography class and learn how to draw type by hand. This is a painstaking precise skill that I really think should always be apart of any designers schooling. One word would take a week to be perfect. And it really still wouldn’t be perfect. You really appreciate and admire design after that class, if only we had that kind of time in the business world still.
(credit: Kottke)
