monday round-up (labor day edition)
Happy Labor Day, here’s a hand full of goodies found this week while surfing the web:
Coroflot tells you how to build your creative skill set.
Beautiful cut paper designs.
Awesome exhibit of Otl Aicher’s work for the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Another site to help you fine tune your photoshop skillz: psdtuts. Be sure to check out how to make a shiny new pencil.
Awesome search engine for finding specific colored photos on flickr: Multicolr.
Nice http://www.vimeo.com/1556032?pg=embed&sec=1556032 for Austin TV by Alberto Cerriteño.
De Beers uses roses to make its point that Diamonds are Forever.
Just as much as we like to make posters at EMU we also like making collages. So check out the work of Sophie Kern.
Some great videos made with Legos. Go Mini Man, GO!
Graphics gone wild, or when you can’t tell the building apart from the signage. Check out some of the construction photos and design models.
History of graphic design, the website.
Since school is about to start this week, how about a nice video about PROCRASTINATION.
The editor/writer of the blog Grain Edit opens the doors to his home.
Awesome band-aid and ibuprofen packaging.
I’ve always been a fan of Haruki Murakami’s writing and the book cover designs of his books, check them out here, complete with an interview with designer John Gall. You can also here more stories about book and cover design over at the Cover Story Barnes and Noble site.
Instead of buildings as signage, try buildings as instruments.
All about Open Type.
A nicely executed video quickly demonstrating the history of communications.
Nice ads for Try Life in Another Language.
Some sweet typography from Alex Trochut.
Lastly, you can never grow too old to play with toys (or at least use them to create an art installation).
Oh and because it is a holiday why not have a little fun. Here’s some ninjas on rollerskates.
by Ryan M | 08.31.08 | Blog Round Up | 6 Comments »
the first “try life in another lanuage” video is awesome. however, i hate to say it but im getting tired of the the treatment in the second one. it officially hit me after i saw “stranger than fiction” – which was a good movie and i liked the treatment that mk12 used but now im sick of it. type boxes and shit swirling around has been going on for a while now and im calling for a moratorium.
ninjas… stormshadow could have punched that car to pieces.
personally I’m tired of FLOURISHES and moving flourishes… even though I really like them, I need a break…
I just saw the toys one… poor pooh bear… and Mario’s just cheering them on!
http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/sixoclock/img/exhib/6127-L.jpg
I am amazed by all the awesome shit you find in a week’s span. Thanks for sharing. I really dig the Otl Aicher Olympic work, the creative skills article, and the typography from Alex Trochut. I look forward to really digging in later.
The web is full of lots of stuff. I use a feed aggregator called Net News Wire to keep up and track blogs I frequently read. It makes it a bit quicker to skim through stuff and only find what you want.
Lots of stuff for next week is already on the way.
Nice new motion graphic by Alex Trochut and others…
http://www.dvein.com/projects/volldamm.html