Songs For Short But Sweet (2011 V0 MP3)
- Billie Holiday - Autumn In New York
- Toro Y Moi - Blessa
- James Brown - It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World
- Matt Duncan - Beacon
- John Martyn - Over The Hill
- Janelle Monae - Neon Valley Street
- Tokimonsta - Bright Shadows
- Common - Black Maybe
- Bob Dylan - Corrina, Corrina
- Wilco - On And On And On
- ONRA - Hope
Runtime: 35 minutes.
DOWNLOAD HERE.For the last few years I’ve put together a small winter warmer of music to give out to friends as a Christmas card hopefully worth keeping. This year’s installment is now complete!
Alex Dent has a great writeup of this satirical illustration of future architectural trends, drawn by Grant E. Hamilton in 1895.
Read it here.
This cross section view of a Leica lens informs as to why camera lenses are just so expensive…
See the set and even buy a cutaway here
‘Never Exhibited’ is a catalogue of never exhibited paintings from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam acquired under the direction of Willem Sandberg, from 1945 to 1963.
Designed by Paris based design agency FiZZZ BZZZZ!
Designer and Illustrator Mikey Burton has created this solution to the alternative business card - A self inking rubber stamp keychain.
Burton gives a full rundown of the stamp here.
German design agency Paperlux were tasked with creating the cover for a recent edition of Novum magazine. Rather than attempting to explain the tiled/mosaic adaptive cover that they made it’s make more sense to check out their site and a video documenting the whole process.
Do it HERE.
Supertype! is a well curated collection of American comic book mastheads.
Go take a browse here.
Hélène Zünd is a Swiss designer based in New York, who also has a very accomplished portfolio of Print and Editorial work.
Take a look here.
The London College of Fashion have uploaded three sketchbooks worth of drawings from fashion designer Victor Stiebel between 1960 and 1963 before he died.
Take a look through all of the images, as well as further information about Stiebel HERE.
Simply known as ‘MK12’, the videographer has put together this well animated short embracing the ethos of Occupy Wall Street.
Watch the video here.
A great collection of airline logos from China and Hong Kong.
Very interesting to see the similarities between all of them, and whether that’s an argument for design context and influence or simply good observation of what’s appropriate design for airlines I don’t know.
See the set here.
Alvin Diec has a fantastic portfolio. This poster is part of a restaurant branding project, and demonstrates some of his great skills with typographic detailing.
I’d really recommend diving into his site and looking at some of the larger projects as well as more poster work.
Take a look here.
Mike Bayne is not a photographer, he is a fine art painter. Specialising in images of the everyday and mundane, the very selection of his medium to present such images reveals detail in places that would otherwise be overlooked.
Take a look at more of his work here.
Brilliant collection of black and white street photography from American Fashion photographer Louis Faurer.