Cary Grant - Source Unknown

Cary Grant - Source Unknown

Paul Himmel / Bowery / From Paul Himmel: Photographs

Paul Himmel / Bowery / From Paul Himmel: Photographs

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AisleOne’s Flickr stream has a complete scan of the 1976 Montreal Olympics branding guidelines. A fascinating flick through for some very structuralist and functional type layouts, as well as a behind the scenes to how much detail goes into these kinds of documents. I imagine the London 2012 one is even greater in length. Take a look here.

AisleOne’s Flickr stream has a complete scan of the 1976 Montreal Olympics branding guidelines.

A fascinating flick through for some very structuralist and functional type layouts, as well as a behind the scenes to how much detail goes into these kinds of documents. I imagine the London 2012 one is even greater in length.

Take a look here.

Freelance illustrator Kali Ciesemier drew this wonderful series of illustrations for use on Amtrak trains in America. The artworks were printed in a 32-page activity book for kids to enjoy whilst riding the trains. Take a look here.

Freelance illustrator Kali Ciesemier drew this wonderful series of illustrations for use on Amtrak trains in America.

The artworks were printed in a 32-page activity book for kids to enjoy whilst riding the trains.

Take a look here.

Tony Lee, Jr. works in New York at Pentagram - however his personal portfolio has some gems in, including this experimental book of William Faulkner’s ‘As I Lay Dying’.

The book contains fifteen characters all of whom contribute voice and tone in streams of consciousness as the book goes on.

The experiment here sees each of the voices allocated a different typeface before being typeset within the whole book. Typographically not the easiest feat to pull off, but interesting to take a look at. However the grid is simple, and the use of images help to break up the spreads and make the content more manageable.

Take a look here.

Lorenzo Cappelli is behind this fun project - making silent movie title cards for modern day movies.Even if there’s no ‘point’ to the project in terms of application, it’s a great opportunity to just experiment and get better at typography. Nothing wrong with practice and all… Personally I feel he could push them further. See what you think of the series here here.

Lorenzo Cappelli is behind this fun project - making silent movie title cards for modern day movies.

Even if there’s no ‘point’ to the project in terms of application, it’s a great opportunity to just experiment and get better at typography. Nothing wrong with practice and all… Personally I feel he could push them further.

See what you think of the series here here.

I’m not massively into cars, but the Road Inc. iPad app is the kind of thing that I find interesting - essentially designed as a handheld car museum.

The app has a collection of 50 vehicles - each of which have been fully recreated and modeled in 3D alongside archival photos, history, and soundbites to check out.

It’s a well designed package, and without an iPad I can only take a look at the videos. Grab the app at their site here.

Stacey Donaldson is the Detroit based designer behind this lovely alphabet. Very subtle gradient folds to very simple letters give it a brilliant aesthetic.Check out more of her work here.

Stacey Donaldson is the Detroit based designer behind this lovely alphabet. Very subtle gradient folds to very simple letters give it a brilliant aesthetic.

Check out more of her work here.

‘Made By Hand’ is a great little video series that’s been running and can be seen over at it’s Vimeo channel. Each short focuses on a niche craft/profession that is made by hand.

There are only two films up so far, of which ‘The Knife Maker’ is the second.

See the channel here.

Tom Eckersley was an English poster designer and illustrator, he also spent much of his life teaching about design. There’s’ a good collection of all his work to be found over at VADS.

Tom Eckersley was an English poster designer and illustrator, he also spent much of his life teaching about design.

There’s’ a good collection of all his work to be found over at VADS.

4CP/ ‘Four Colour Process’, is a site dedicated to high resolution scans of vintage comic books and the CMYK print process. It’s great to see how the incredibly systematic process of CMYK printing works in order to create drawn comic book artworks. Scroll through the site here.

4CP/ ‘Four Colour Process’, is a site dedicated to high resolution scans of vintage comic books and the CMYK print process. It’s great to see how the incredibly systematic process of CMYK printing works in order to create drawn comic book artworks.

Scroll through the site here.

Good logo design is tough stuff, and Allan Peters ‘logos’ section on his portfolio is a gallery of things that hits a lot of strengths important in a logo mark. Some are better than others, and the ones that show a few variations are the most interesting in regards to seeing a bit behind the scenes of the process. Take a look at the whole set here.

Good logo design is tough stuff, and Allan Peters ‘logos’ section on his portfolio is a gallery of things that hits a lot of strengths important in a logo mark. Some are better than others, and the ones that show a few variations are the most interesting in regards to seeing a bit behind the scenes of the process.

Take a look at the whole set here.

DKNG Studios are the in-house poster team for American music venue The Troubadour, but also seem to produce a lot of other work here and there. Lovely illustration for an Explosions in the Sky show from this October. I think what’s nice about this as well is the poster certainly leans towards the ambient, interpretive, and instrumental vibe of Explosions in the Sky. I’m one of those types that likes to have at least some kind of link between the band and the poster art. Often this isn’t the case in gig posters… Go check out the work here.

DKNG Studios are the in-house poster team for American music venue The Troubadour, but also seem to produce a lot of other work here and there.

Lovely illustration for an Explosions in the Sky show from this October.

I think what’s nice about this as well is the poster certainly leans towards the ambient, interpretive, and instrumental vibe of Explosions in the Sky. I’m one of those types that likes to have at least some kind of link between the band and the poster art. Often this isn’t the case in gig posters…

Go check out the work here.

Zeus Jones is are the branding and design agency responsible for Nordstrom Rack’s pictogram redesigns. We were asked to create a system of icons that would add a fresh, playful and contemporary character to big city locations. The whole set is fantastic- using minimal lines to make something with a lot of individual character, make sure to take a look here.

Zeus Jones is are the branding and design agency responsible for Nordstrom Rack’s pictogram redesigns.

We were asked to create a system of icons that would add a fresh, playful and contemporary character to big city locations.

The whole set is fantastic- using minimal lines to make something with a lot of individual character, make sure to take a look here.

Super Rad / Allan Peters 12x12 Poster Illustration for the 2010 Toys in the Attic poster show in Minneapolis. More info here.

Super Rad / Allan Peters

12x12 Poster Illustration for the 2010 Toys in the Attic poster show in Minneapolis.

More info here.