I heard stories before of blog spam hiding in the source code of the header in the document, mucking things up, destroying all that is sacred and beautiful. If you visit this site from time to time and recently noticed some bizarre behavior it is because this lovely blog was besieged with spam. The latest attack on the site actually modified the source code entirely of the header of the document making things very hard to read. It is somewhat fixed for the time being and will be 100% soon.

On a separate but similar note on the aesthetic of this site. The blog will be undergoing renovations soon thanks to former students Nick Woods and Shawn Lee, who promise me amazing things.

Former EMU graphic design student Logan Walters has been getting quite some internet play for his recent re-imagining of WuTang album covers as if they were Blue Note records. Congrats to Logan for his success and the great project. You can read more about the project here, here, and here. I really like the treatment of my favorite Wu affiliated album Liquid Swords (below).

Business cards for Chicago gangs.

Philips Carousel, and the making of it.

The architecture of video game evil lairs.

Wood Type!

Fun ad of a Rube Goldberg machine wrecking havoc in a print room.

Nice work by Paul Sych.

10 CalArts animation student films.

New Creative Review website (which features archives of previous month’s articles).

Awesome short, “What’s in the Box.”

A home built letterpress!

Learn about how various artists use Adobe products to make their work.

Designflux, an online motion graphic webzine.

Penguin Sci-fi covers.

The blog Its Nice That, is now in print.

A flickr pool of retro logos.

Scott Dadich on designing Wired Magazine.

MTV + Swatch = competition.

Nice video that clients pulled half-way through the job.

Fruit nightmare!

The Travels of Bad.

For Print Only (a new blog).

Container List (a new blog of archived graphic design).

Quimby the Mouse, animated.

The amazing calligraphy of Gabriel Martinez Meave.

Very interesting release from The Crystal Method, and the form treatment is awesome! Not to mention I just own everything Crystal Method related.

Josh Rogers, from the design entrepreneur class, sent me this link from boing boing. It is a great short film relevant to the topics and issues we are exploring in the class. Everyone should watch it.