Qian Qian

My former instructor and all-around amazing designer, Qian Qian, is featured in Apple's "Pro" profile. Congrats Qian!

Soviet Matchboxes in Space!

Check out this great set of matchboxes commemorating the Soviet progress in space.

Stray Shopping Carts

Oh the cruel world and its abandoning of shopping carts!

Colourful Fence

Simple and brilliant. Found here.

Rosalie Gascoigne Assemblages

Australian artist, Rosalie Gascoigne, created some really great assemblages with found materials.

Paul Rand Film

This is why Paul Rand is awesome.

Ametrica!

Graduate student from SVA in NYC, Amy Wang, worked on the issue of why America should change to the metric system for her final MFA project. She also was awarded an Adobe Design Achievement Award. Finally - I'm not the only one that feels this way!

Oblivion by David Maisel

Artist David Maisel has a great series of aerial photographs of the Los Angeles area entitled "Oblivion" - and if you have ever flown over LA, you will understand completely.

Oh the Nostalgia!

Remember cassette tapes? I do. And they were awesome.

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Blind Boxes Featured in Print Magazine!

I received the Print Regional Design Annual today in the mail and MUCH to my surprise, on page 50, there is an article on Jim Coudal and it features my Blind Boxes! I had no idea they were doing an article on Coudal or that my Boxes would be featured. Well, they say all press is good press, right?

"Heaven is a Place on Earth"

Artist Jacob Dahlgren creates some great works of art. Especially this one.

Architectural Deconstructivism

Architectural Deconstructivism creates some pretty amazing buildings like these buildings for big-box store Best.

Just a Little Font Chit-Chat...

My friends and yours, Pat Sajak & Vanna White, chit-chat about their favourite fonts. At least she mentions Helvetica at the end...

Keep Calm and Carry On.

I am very excited to announce that I am partnering up with the fine folks at Keep Calm to sell a few of my prints and posters online! Keep Calm are based in the United Kingdom and they make some wonderful things that you should all go and purchase. Christmas is just around the corner, let us not forget!

Electro-Magnetic Art.

Artist Richard Box has an installation entitled "Field" in which he placed 1,301 fluorescent tubes in the ground that light up by the electro-magnetic field surrounding the high-power lines above them.

"Unnecessary" Quotation Marks

Here is a "link" to a "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks. Brilliant!

Outdoor Typographie

Although Google doesn't quite translate it perfectly (I have no idea what a "battery mountain" is) this is an interesting little article about projecting type outdoors.

Interactive Video Installations

Theadore Watson creates some great interactive video installations of daisies that die when you walk on them and then regrow seconds later and vinyl records that spin as you walk on them.

Ignite.

I like this image.

Space Alphabet

I ffffound this great little book called "Space Alphabet" with illustrations by Peter P. Plasencia.

Sony Bravia Adverts

Hopefully, most of you have already seen the Sony Bravia commercials, but if not, you must see them because they are simply wonderful. No fancy computers, no special effects, just tons of hard work and great concepts.

Bouncy Balls in San Francisco

Paint Fireworks in Glasgow

Rabbits in NYC

The "New" AT&T...

I saw this a while ago, and just got around to posting it. Ahh, the beauty of corporate mergers...

Paula Scher's Moleskine

Now, I have been a huge fan of Moleskine Notebooks for years, but I have never doodled anything as nice as what Paula Scher has in mine. This video is really great, just turn off the super annoying audio.

Great Window Graphics

The design (architecture, product, graphic, & more) firm, Conran & Partners in London has some great window graphics that you should check out.

Book End Papers

You can peruse a nice collection of book end papers here.