Savage Chickens
January 16, 2009 – 11:19 pmJust found this cartoonist: Doug Savage and his Savage Chickens…HILARIOUS!
That’s my boss! Except he’s hooked to the net and AOL…
Typical!!! haha
Pantone & The Gap
January 16, 2009 – 10:55 pmAhh Pantone! The truest colors that be! I’m calling my sister, she works at one of the Gaps in NYC…She must’ve known about this and didn’t tell me!!!
Pantone teamed up with Gap to create one hell of a pop-up store in NYC. Via: Selectism
P.O.S. | Never Better
January 16, 2009 – 10:48 pmI just saw this little video showing the packaging for P.O.S.’s New Album ‘Never Better’ – (P.O.S. stands for Pissed Off Stef)
Although I’ve never heard the music, the packaging certainly caught my eye and so, here it is…Enjoy!
CSSiPhone
January 16, 2009 – 10:41 pmHow cool is this? A CSS Design gallery showing sites as viewed through the iPhone. I turned in nicoleandujar.com so let’s see if they post it 
I Want Nothing
January 16, 2009 – 10:31 pm“I want nothing but the love of the next stranger who walks through that door…”
– The Black Ghosts, I Want Nothing
Photographer: Craig McDean
Magazine: W
Date: January, 2009
Model: Natalia Vodianova
I don’t remember where I stumbled upon this guy, Tony Ward - the model (he was in Madonna’s 1992 ‘Erotica’ video and her book ‘Sex’ and he photographs great. Here are some shots for last year’s Baily Hat Campaign.
Andy Gilmore
January 16, 2009 – 9:53 pm
I love the geometry, the perfection and the color combinations…
This is the art of Andy Gilmore and here’s his site: http://www.birdbrid.com
Fundament
January 16, 2009 – 9:38 pmAndreas Nicolas Fischer, born in Munich, Germany 1982. He concerns himself with the visualization of data, which normally lies beyond human perception. He delves into scientific information visualization, as well as programming generative systems, to create drawings, sculptures (data artefacts) and installations. The artist lives and works in Berlin.
Mapping of the world gross domestic product 2007
Mapping of the world derivatives volume 2007
The data sculpture Fundament shows the allocation of the world’s gross domestic product in comparison to the worldwide derivatives volume. The statistical data was aquired from the CIA World Factbook and the International Monetary Fund. The sculpture consists of two layers which visualize two data sets with the same principle.
Huh?
January 16, 2009 – 9:27 pm
I didn’t even finish watching ‘The Dark Knight” but I love Heath Ledger..(and Beetlejuice)
New Finds
January 16, 2009 – 9:24 pm
This is the Habitat Montreal designed by architect Moshe Safdie , built in 1967 for the 1967 International and Universal Exposition known also as the WORLD’s FAIR. My dad attended that Fair and says it was one of the most memorable times of his life. I’ve always loved that building.
This week has been brutally slow at work so I find myself distracted on the net…I am always looking for inspiration, beautiful things inspire me, a beautiful photograph, a great quote, a good book suggestion, new trends in design, 100 creative ways to solve the same problem, and so I am always looking…I doubt there will ever be an end to the net.
Today I read this great quote:
When someone loves you for a long, long time… REALLY loves you, then you become Real. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly.
— The Velveteen Rabbit (via overflowing)
I am currently reading: “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger
I am about half way through and I already don’t want to finish it. It’s a great love story and I am the eternal romantic..I remember one day that Ricardo told my dad how much he loved me and how I had changed his life…We had been having drinks with my dad the whole night and we were on the 10th round and I could barely hang anymore…Ricardo said he had to go but that he wanted me to go home with him and since we were at my home, I dared him to ask my dad thinking he would say ‘Nah, I’ll see you tomorrow then’.
To my surprise, he said ‘Ok, come on’ and so we went to talk to my dad…He began telling him the way he felt about me and my smile couldn’t have been wider because the edges of my mouth were about to touch in the back of my head…At last he said, ‘I love her with all my heart and I respect her even more and she’s changed my life in ways I couldn’t have imagined…[he said other things too, but at the end here's what he said].. do you mind if she comes home with me tonight? I’ll take care of her.’
My dad didn’t know what to say…he thought he was asking for my hand in marriage, hahaha, but alas, he said: ‘I understand and I am happy that you are happy but I can’t allow that, but we can have another round if you’re up to it!’ we just laughed and sat down again for another one, but my smile was still there. I remember telling him the next day that what he said to my dad was one of the most romantic things he ever did for me. This is one of my most beloved memories of Ricardo. The sincerity of his words and the way he looked at me as he told my dad how much he cared for me are deeply etched in my heart.
Getting back to the book…The story is very engaging and the story line is like nothing I have ever read before. I highly recommend it and it will soon be out in theaters with Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams (love them both!!) I can’t wait to see it.
I’m also designing some new posters for myself They are inspired on song lyrics, snippets of poetry that have touched me in some way or the other at some point and I haven’t been able to let it out of my system so I decided to design them and put them out there.I will post them as soon as they are finished.
PBS: Thank you for the great programming
January 6, 2009 – 8:56 pmI was just changing channels and stopped on PBS and to my surprise and delight they were showing the documentary of Helvetica, a classic but modern font that we as graphic designers all know but not always love. (I personally like it I am glad that PBS has this high caliber programming and their audience is hopefully enlightened in the world of typography. I applaud their Programming Director for having such great taste.
Http://www.PBS.org
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