Monday, March 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The personal and commercial work of Doug Cunningham and Jason Noto.
Labels: Doug Cunningham, graphic design, illustration, Jason Noto, Morning Breath
Monday, March 1, 2010
I love this project "Tan The Man" by Helsinki-based illustrator and designer Janine Rewell. Funny and clever is always a solid combination.
Labels: graphic design, illustration, Janine Rewell
Monday, February 15, 2010
Typographic goodness from the London-based designer with a focus in research and data visualization.
Labels: graphic design, Peter Crnokrak
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Here is a wonderful collection of over 200 illustrations from the Mid-Century Modern style.
Labels: flickr, graphic design, illustration, Mid-Century Modern, resource
Monday, February 8, 2010
Fantastic information graphics by New York-based designer Nicholas Felton.
Labels: graphic design, illustration, Nicholas Felton
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Duke University libraries has compiled a fantastic digital archive of Mid-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century advertising, ephemera, and photography. The site isn't much to look at, but it's easy to navigate and the content is wonderful.
Labels: ad campaign, Duke University, ephemera, graphic design, photography, resource
Monday, January 25, 2010
"A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers."
Labels: Clients From Hell, graphic design, humor, resource
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
onlab, a Berlin-based graphic design studio that produces a combination of client and self-initiated projects. I quite like the Quarry Workers publication; it has an interesting format and is a great solution for 1-color printing.
Labels: graphic design, onlab, site design
Friday, January 8, 2010
A site dedicated to map-based projects.
Labels: fine art, graphic design, illustration, Radical Cartography, resource
Thursday, January 7, 2010
While visiting family over the holidays, I stopped into one of my favorite used bookstores, and ended-up with a few spectacular finds. Including this 1938 type style / specimen book by Paul Carlyle and Guy Oring. It's a hardcover Wire-O / double-loop bound book, printed two-colors on cover weight uncoated paper stock. The specimen is around 130-pages of typographic goodness, and I photographed a sampling of 36-pages for your historical enjoyment.
Labels: flickr, graphic design, Guy Oring, Letters and Lettering, Paul Carlyle
Monday, January 4, 2010
I was searching through flickr, and came across this fabulously large group of images dedicated to Modernist type and design. If you are a design student, you should be saving this link as a bookmark right about.....now.
Labels: flickr, graphic design, resource
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Not only a really nice illustration style, but a solid use of media to boot.
Labels: Cody Hoyt, fine art, graphic design, illustration
Monday, December 21, 2009
I just uploaded a set of typographic research photographs taken from 2006 - 2009. Enjoy.
Labels: flickr, graphic design, photography, resource, studiotwentysix2, Tom Davie, tombstone typography
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Things Magazine, which is outstanding in its own right, has assembled a fantastic archive of Pelican book covers produced from the 1930s through the 1980s. Certainly worth a bookmark.
Labels: books, graphic design, illustration, Pelican books, photography, resource, Things Magazine
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Be sure to check out the impressive collection of posters and prints by French designer Vincent Perrottet. His site takes a few seconds to load, as it's constructed as a single page with large images, but it's worth the wait.
Labels: graphic design, photography, poster, Vincent Perrottet
Monday, November 16, 2009
160over90 is a branding agency based in Philadelphia. Nice site and portfolio.
Labels: 160over90, graphic design, site design
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Designer Peter Gabor has put together a nice collection of historical Russian posters.
Labels: graphic design, Peter Gabor, poster, resource
Friday, October 23, 2009
I recently visited the Cooper Union Typography blog, and the latest entry features typographer and designer Stephen Farrell. Stephen was one of my mentors during graduate school, and he is as smart, detail-oriented and talented as they come. He doesn't maintain a site of his own, but Cooper Union did a great job of compiling all the information available on him into a single point of reference. Be sure to check out his work, it's definitely worthwhile.
Labels: blog, Cooper Union Typography, graphic design, Stephen Farrell
Thursday, October 22, 2009
This video offers a nice look at Nashville-based Hatch Show Print, one of the oldest letterpress shops in the US.
Labels: graphic design, Hatch Show Print, letterpress, poster, resource, video
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I really like this Halloween ad created last year by The Miller Group, Los Angeles. It's a fun use of illustration, and does a great job of playfully reinforcing the Goodwill "G" logo.
Labels: ad campaign, Goodwill, graphic design, illustration, The Miller Group
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I recently set up a portfolio on the Behance Network, which considers itself "a platform for creative portfolios, projects, and collaborations." There is a nice mixture of well-known and lesser-known artists and designers, and most of the work represented seems to range from decent to exceptional quality.
If you're a creative, you might want to consider joining, or, if you're just interested in keeping tabs on contemporary art & design, you might have a good time simply browsing.
Labels: Behance Network, fine art, graphic design, illustration, resource, studiotwentysix2, Tom Davie
Monday, October 19, 2009
Check out the nice portfolio of French-born, Vancouver-based designer and art director Xavier Encinas. He has a well-rounded body of work, but I'm particularly interested in his fashion-oriented design. Xavier created and edits the type and design blog Swiss Legacy.
Labels: graphic design, site design, Xavier Encinas
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
I really dig this group of British wrestling posters collected by Jane McDevitt, a designer based in the North of England.
Labels: British Wrestling Posters, graphic design, Jane McDevitt, resource
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
It may take some time to finish organizing and uploading the work, but studiotwentysix2 is now officially on flickr. My photostream will feature a sampling of posters, prints, drawings and client work, with images being available at a large 900 pixels. The direct flickr link is posted below, and I will continue to upload work to the site, as time and energy allows.
Labels: fine art, flickr, graphic design, studiotwentysix2, Tom Davie, update
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
My typographic-based White Space poster is now available for download as an iPhone wallpaper via typenuts (a member of the i love typography network). Enjoy.
Labels: blog, graphic design, iPhone wallpaper, resource, studiotwentysix2, Tom Davie, typenuts
Friday, September 25, 2009
I was really impressed with the design, photography and content on Justin Knopp's Typoretum blog. He seems to have a wonderful appreciation for the history of type and printing...
Since then my involvement with letterpress printing has deepened and I have acquired a substantial collection of lead and wooden types, printing machines and other paraphernalia - much of which I have rescued and restored to working order. My continuing interest in letterpress printing has led me to provide practical demonstrations and workshops and I am deeply involved with preserving the history of the Anchor Press, with the long-term ambition of establishing a printing museum in Tiptree.
Labels: blog, graphic design, Justin Knopp, site design, Typoretum
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Jonathan Hoefler and Steven Heller discuss the importance of typography, and its significance toward communication and design. Originally aired on the Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC) September 11, 2009.
Labels: graphic design, Jonathan Hoefler, Leonard Lopate, Steven Heller, WNYC
Monday, September 7, 2009
I was recently asked to contribute work for the upcoming Create Democracy poster exhibition that will be part of London's Design Event '09. Since the theme of the exhibition is democracy, only the posters with highest vote totals will be exhibited during the event. If you would like to support my design work, visit the link below and vote for my posters to be included in the exhibition.
About Create Democracy...
Democracy is a challenging new graphic design exhibition forming part of Design Event, the North East's annual design festival. We're aiming to create the ultimate democratic exhibition; we're inviting designers and illustrators to submit their visual interpretation of the theme of Democracy and only those with the most votes will be featured in the exhibition. All qualifying entries are showcased on this website and you can then vote for your favourite. You can also leave comments on the work and get in contact with the artist/designer behind them.
This project is a unique chance for designers and artists to pit their work against peers from all over the world. It is also a great platform to promote your creative talent to thousands of art-lovers and design-fans engaging with Design Event 09. Feel free to use Facebook, MySpace, forums etc. to spread the word and get people to vote for your work.
Rise to the challenge and participate in the process. The sooner you submit, the more votes you have the potential to get, so get cracking...
Labels: Create Democracy, Design Event 09, graphic design, illustration, studiotwentysix2, Tom Davie
Monday, August 24, 2009
Type Daily is a nice RSS feed site packed with content from the web's best sources for typographic-based content.
Labels: blog, graphic design, resource, Type Daily
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Sorry for the lack of posts this week, I was out-of-town for a few days.
Lost and Taken is a great resource site for Hi Res, good-quality textures and scans. Most, if not all, are copyright / royalty-free images that are acceptable for personal and commercial use. Check it out.
Labels: blog, graphic design, illustration, photography, resource
Monday, August 17, 2009
I was in the process of organizing some old bookmarks, and came across this 2005 Design Observer essay by Michael Beirut. The topic is the Target ClearRx prescription bottle that started as a graduate assignment at the School of Visual Arts.
Although he probably overstates the importance of the bottle redesign, it's still a good piece of writing; and with the inclusion of the comments section, it makes for an interesting read.
Labels: article, Design Observer, graphic design, Michael Beirut, redesign, resource, Target
Thursday, August 13, 2009
I was sent a copy of this article a few weeks ago as a PDF file, but now that Brand Packaging has added it to their site, I thought I would forward it along.
The article focuses on the recent Tropicana rebranding failure by discussing what went wrong, what we can learn from it, and how to potentially avoid a future rebranding backlash.
Labels: article, graphic design, redesign, resource, Tropicana
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I will be teaching an introduction to typography class this semester, and as a reference point for examples and discussion, have created Good Type, Bad Type - where the best and worst of typography, mingle seamlessly. I encourage you to stop by and check it out, and if you would like to join or start a discussion, or have an outstanding example of good / bad typography to share - that's even better.
Labels: blog, Good Type Bad Type, graphic design, resource, Tom Davie
Friday, August 7, 2009
Here is a time-lapse video of the project, Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Life Better, that was created for the Droog Event 2: Urban Play in Amsterdam. The public art installation took eight days, and used 250,000 euro cents consisting of four different tonal shades.
Additional images and videos of the project
Labels: graphic design, Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Life Better, Sagmeister Inc., video
Friday, July 31, 2009
Two very different, yet equally interesting videos on typography.
Labels: David Dabner, graphic design, London College of Printing, resource, Vancouver film school, video
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Miller (Russia) allows you to browse through their user-submitted can designs created for the Miller Genuine Draft brand. By clicking on one of the three winning designs, you are able to view the non-winning designs as well.
You must 21 years old to enter the site, and aside from the age verification text, everything appears in Russian only.
Labels: graphic design, Miller Genuine Draft, redesign
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
I have been meaning to post this for quite sometime – better late than never I guess.
Thirst, the Chicago based studio, relaunched their site earlier this spring, with additional work and a new interface. Thirst is one of the nation's preeminent design studios with the following philosophy...
Thirst is a firm devoted to art with function and serves a collection of clients whose refined and enlightened design sensibilities yield rewards in the experience of creation.
Our passion for design and embrace of new technologies make for a dynamic union of imagery and inspiration.
Thirst's strategic and creative versatility continues to lead the discourse and pursue the elusive ideals of intelligence, fashion and real human presence within today's world of communication.
If you're unfamiliar with Thirst, you will definitely want to take a few minutes and check out their work.
Labels: graphic design, Rick Valicenti, site design, Thirst
I decided to split one long post into two shorter ones, so it's a two-for-one day.
In honor of yesterday's black and white drawings, and today's post about Thirst, here are some personal works by Thirst founder, Rick Valicenti.
Rick was recently awarded the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) Medal in 2006 for his sustained contribution to design excellence and development of the profession. This medal is the highest honor in the graphic design profession.
Rick Valicenti provides inspiration to his colleagues and mentorship to a generation of students. For the past two decades, Rick has lent his time and energies to college and high school students in the form of workshops and personal critiques on the design industry.
Labels: fine art, graphic design, illustration, Rick Valicenti
Monday, July 13, 2009
Some interesting illustration and design work from Kansas City-based Tad Carpenter. His site is nicely constructed as well.
Labels: artist, graphic design, illustration, Tad Carpenter
Friday, July 10, 2009
Semi-related to yesterday's post, I too have been working on a set of typographic-based posters. Click the link, and you can preview the first two posters from the series...
Labels: graphic design, poster, studiotwentysix2, Tom Davie
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Although the quality of the work can be hit-or-miss, typo/graphic posters is a fantastic resource for typographic-based poster design. The directory of typographic and graphic posters has a nice mix of styles and a variety of approaches to poster design that makes the site quite appealing.
Banner poster by Boris Bonev.
Labels: Boris Bonev, graphic design, poster, resource, Typo/graphic Posters
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
I like Flash as an application, but I typically don't care for most web sites that are created in it. With the combination of resized browser windows, and slow navigations or overall loading times, there is usually something frustrating about visiting a flash site.
However, none of that applies to Denmark-based Hello Monday. The "designery" specializes in identity, illustration, flash and campaign development, and the firm also has one of the nicest studio sites out there. Check it out.
Labels: graphic design, Hello Monday, illustration, interactive design, site design
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Sleevage is a blog / archive dedicated to album cover art.
Accompanying each cover is detailed information about the band, the artist (if known) and any historical art or design references that may have influenced the cover art. It's a quality site and definitely worth a bookmark.
Labels: blog, fine art, graphic design, music, resource, Sleevage
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Outdoorsman and photographer Tom Spaulding has put together a fabulous flickr set of over 800 vintage neon signs. The collection has a nice mix of day and night images, stylistic variety and the overall image quality is quite good.
The signs were located and photographed throughout Northern California.
Labels: design, graphic design, industrial design, neon signs, Tom Spaulding
Friday, June 19, 2009
Although the site is under construction, the work is still interesting. Si Scott has has a nice organic illustration style, and the way it translates into the typographic pieces is quite impressive.
Labels: graphic design, illustration, Si Scott Design
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The UnderConsideration team has launched a new blog focused entirely on print design...
FPO is a blog dedicated to both the visual stimulus and the detailing of the development and production of printed matter: Annual reports, books, business cards, stationery suites, collateral materials, posters, packaging and anything else where ink meets substrate. A subject matter we know, love and understand. A process that, despite numerous eulogies, is still alive.
Labels: blog, For Print Only, graphic design, resource, UnderConsideration
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
A friend sent me this article from the New York Times about recent corporate logo redesigns.
The article implies that the current US recession has directly influenced the trend of softer, happier, more inviting logo treatments. This may in fact be true, but the trend I am more concerned about...naming the individual parts of your logo. "Spark" and "Flavor burst" are pretty sweet, but I would have recommended "Spirit fingers" and "Jazz hands" instead. Unfortunately, I don't have a MBA, so my opinion is virtually worthless when it comes to these decisions.
Labels: article, graphic design, New York Times, redesign
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Nice use of hand-written text...seriously.
I have a feeling some middle-aged chubby guy will parody this pose and type treatment in the not-too-distant future. It's unfortunate that Chris Farley is no longer with us; he would have made for a perfect candidate.
Labels: Bar Refaeli, Esquire, graphic design
Friday, May 29, 2009
This is an outstanding resource for all things book cover design related.
In addition to providing a database of well-designed covers, each archive entry also lists the designer, studio and font usage. Quite a fantastic bookmark for anyone interested in graphic or literature design. The archive is edited and maintained by Ben Pieratt of General Projects and Eric Jacobsen of Whisky Van Gogh Go.
Labels: books, graphic design, resource, The Book Cover Archive
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Nice portfolio site by Icelandic-born illustrator and designer Siggi Eggertsson.
Labels: graphic design, illustration, Siggi Eggertsson
Monday, May 18, 2009
Clever and useful, just the way I like it. ☺
CopyPasteCharacter.com allows for simple access to icons, dingbats and typographic characters that are underutilized due to unknown or overly complex key-commands. Simply click the characters to copy them, and then paste them (⌘ v) into a document, email or blog entry. ☃
Labels: CopyPasteCharacter.com, graphic design, resource, site design
Friday, May 15, 2009
Amsterdam-based Experimental Jetset has created a fantastic body of contemporary Modernist and Swiss International-influenced design work — and not only is it good, but there’s quite a bit of it. As impressive as the work is, their writing and project explanation’s actually rival, if not exceed the quality of the design work.
The site is a great resource and definitely worth a bookmark.
Labels: Experimental Jetset, graphic design, site design
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