Joseph O. Holmes - LCD

Yes. Pictures of people's LCD screens taking pictures at the American Museum of Natural History by Joseph O. Holmes.

Michael Johansson

Grain Edit posted about the work of Swedish artist Michael Johansson and I just had to pass it along:

Using found objects from flea markets, Michael Johansson fills voids and creates fantastically interesting sculptures and objects.

Vans and the Places They Were

Vans and the Places They Were by filmmaker and photographer Joe Stevens. Nice.

Communist Era Storefront Windows

Between 1986 and 1990, David Hlynsky made approximately 8,000 color, Hasselblad images of storefront windows on the streets of Communist Europe. He purposely avoided dramatic moments and newsworthy events. Brilliant!

via Coudal.

A Few New Polaroids

"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible." - Edwin Land

I am making a new concerted effort to continue my Vernacular Typography Polaroids series. I just purchased a boatload of expired film and I hope to start shooting like crazy soon.

City of Melbourne Identity

Even though it was designed by a Sydney design firm (which is sadly ironic) I am very impressed with Melbourne, Australia's new city identity. Fresh, flexible, and very Australian.

Build Your Own Letterpress

Want to get into letterpress printing without a huge investment? Try building your own press!

Pulp Paperback Diorama Photographs

Thomas Allen constructs dioramas using figures cut from the covers of old pulp paperbacks and then photographs them. Great stuff!

Love is Sweet...

Wow. I wish I had the patience and skill to do something similar to this amazing piece by Julene Harrison.

We Love Typography

From the creator of one of the best type sites on the internet, ILoveTypography, comes another great site: WeLoveTypography.

Contributed to by some of the best type people on the net, think of it as FFFFound for all things type, typography, lettering, & signage.

A new daily source of typographic inspiration!

YTL Residence, Kuala Lumpur

Wow. This home is amazing. YTL Residence, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Spy Box

Ever wonder what it was like to be a parcel going through the mail? Tim Knowles did and created a parcel with a digital camera inside and called it Spy Box

Visualizing the New York Times

Love info graphics? They you will love this really impressive visualization of the New York Times.

Type Specimen Books

Flickr user :Nike has a seriously enviable collection of Type Specimen Books.

Envelopes (1992 - )

Artist Andrew Bush (of previously linked 66 Drives fame) has an astounding collection of photographs of envelopes. Sounds boring, I know, but it totally isn't.

Rasmus Norlander

Rasmus Norlander is a Stockholm based photographer that takes some really fantastic images.

Flavor

Juan Camilo Rojas has created a work of art that has the potential to give you stained teeth, fingers, and hair; increased frequency of colds and bronchitis; asthma; neuralgia; gastrointestinal difficulties;headaches; nausea; and convulsions - to name a few.

Grain Edit Interviews Frank!

My great friend just got interviewed by a great website..

Congrats Frank!

Silhouettes in a Museum

A beautiful set of photographs of silhouettes in front of museum displays.

Young Artists Print!

Another elementary school class has done a printing project based on some of my work! This time it is a fourth grade class in Indiana - awesome!

Check it out here!

A Continious Lean

"A Continuous Lean is about things. American things, good looking things, well designed things and all sorts of other things. Sometimes A Continuous Lean even talks about people and ideas. That’s it, keep it simple. More good, less bad."

Matchbooks

Matchbooks. Lots and lots of matchbooks.

Dan Funderburgh

Dan Funderburgh makes very interesting art pieces and prints and other things. His work is difficult to describe, so just check it out!

Akzidenz Grotesk on the Streets

I had posted a few images of this project a while back, but now I have found more information about it - Tobias Battenberg took typography and a projector to the streets and made some very interesting photographs.

Twentysix Abandoned Gas Stations

Working off of Ed Rushas's Twentysix Gas Stations, Eric Tabuchi has photographed Twentysix Abandoned Gas Stations. Great stuff!

New York City Subway Destination Prints

These old New York City Subway Destination Prints are quite nice!

Letter Museum in Berlin

The Letter Museum’s mission is the preservation and documentation of letters, regardless of culture, language and font systems. Yet another reason I need to visit Berlin!

The Inauguration. At Last.

Maira Kalman (of whom I have posted before) went to the recent Presidential Inauguration and painted her way through the event. Wonderful!

Vintage German Illustration

The title says it all: Vintage German Illustration

David Maisel

I have (and always will) have a love for what I like to call "massive photography." David Maisel's Oblivion Series is one of the best in my opinion.

Westvaco Inspirations

Bradbury Thompson's work for Westvaco in the 1950's was seriously great.

Vintage Posters

I am always a sucker for vintage posters and this French blog always has a choice selection.

Way of Women

Italy's Sportmax Code has an online magazine profiling women artists/designers/thinkers from around the world.

English School Children Make Their Own Paths

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and this week I received an email that certainly proved just that:

Dear Sir,

I am a primary school teacher in the UK, I teach at James Watt Primary School in Handsworth, Birmingham. Just before Christmas, my Year 5 class (Age 9/10) spent the day working on a special art project based on your work.

My father had been given a "Make Your Own Path" print as a retirement gift and using that as our inspiration we set about creating prints on old maps. The children chose different motivational messages and made their print blocks out of cardboard. We then rollered paint onto the print blocks and printed it. We watched the video on your website about how you had carried out your printing and compared the differences.

I would like to thank you for the inspiration with which the children were able to create their own artwork and hope you enjoy looking at their homage to your work.

Many thanks, with best wishes,

Oliver Wilson
Year 5 Teacher
James Watt Primary School
Birmingham
UK

Seriously, the biggest compliment my work has ever received! I am SO excited that these children were inspired by my work and I hope they all grow up to be artists, designers, and printers!

Saul Steinberg

Famous New Yorker illustrator Saul Steinberg is simply fantastic. His pen and ink work is especially inspiring still to this day. This post at Johnson Banks shows some of his great work.

The Arm NYC

Design*Sponge has a great interview with Dan Morris proprietor of The Arm NYC.

All things letterpress and all things good.

Objectified

Gary Hustwit (of Helvetica: The Film fame) has a new film coming out called Objectified. It is about industrial design and the process of making things. I know it sounds lame, but I am excited about it!

Printing for the President

Talk about a big and important job!

Printing one million invitations for the Presidential Inauguration.

Urban Play - Stefan Sagmeister

I know I am super-late on this, but I just had to post about Stefan Sagmeister's installation at Urban Play in Amsterdam in September.

He (along with many volunteers) created an installation of the sentence “Obsessions make my life worse and my work better” using 250,000 Euro cent coins.

Amazing, beautiful, fantastic, and it came to a tragic/ironic end.

The Vignelli Canon

Massimo Vignelli has published a 96 page book on understanding typography and graphic design, according to him.

It is available as a free, downloadable PDF and I am super excited about it!

via AsileOne.

Richard Serra

Richard Serra is a really amazing artist in my humble opinion. Someone has created a page with 108 links to works by Serra. Thanks to that person!

Coles Phillips

1920's American illustrator Coles Phillips is a personal favourite. His "fade-away girls" are both interesting and unique.

Here is another biography as well.

Modern Birdhouses

Modern Bird: A Collection of Modern Birdhouses.

Proudly linked from DDC.

Helen Dardik

Helen Dardik is an amazing and whimsical illustrator! Enough said.

via GrainEdit.

Embroidered Text Messages

The title really says it all: Embroidered Text Messages.

Roadsworth

Montreal-based street artist Roadsworth creates some great public work.

Sigur Ros at the MoMA

I wish I was cool enough to have been here!


Shot live at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Icelandic Independence Day, Sigur Rós @ MoMA is a unique concert film highlighting new material from the band's latest album, "með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust", as well as classic Sigur Rós songs. Directed by Alex Simmons.

The New New Deal

ReadyMade Magazine asked five artists to reimagine the populist poster art of the first Great Depression. Here are the results.

Printing - Your Life Work

Printing—your life work series (1947) from ilovetypography.com on Vimeo.

Thanks to Adam Bowlin for this great film about printing and letterpress.

Text Message in a Bottle

A really interesting idea - text messages that are converted into braille, stamped into magnetic tape, and placed inside a bottle. Text Message in a Bottle.

Typewriter Ribbon Tins

Uppercase has an amazing Flickr set of old typewriter ribbon tins.

Shipping Container Colours

Nice nice nice.

via TFaL.

Organic Typography

**Re-post for this Semester**

For my Advanced Typography Assignment #5 - Organic Typography: Here are links to different examples of interesting experimental/organic typography.

From the book that I showed you: Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far.

Some iconic work is done by Stephan Sagmeister - one & two.
Marian Bantjes makes some great work.
Never forget to Think Beauty.
Christian Robert-Tissot makes some interesting work here.
Bryan Collins is a great Art Director & Designer that makes nice things.
Post-Typography has some interesting experimental work as well.