Designers Type Dirty: 450 Typographical Tart Cards
A different form of 'sexting', if you will, is this fabulous project between Wallpaper magazine, St. Bride Library and Type in the "Sex Issue" of…
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Cold Cut Animals, Soft Body Parts & Stained Glass Perfume by Sarah Illenberger
Sarah Illenberger is a multi-talented imaginative artist based in Germany whose editorial work is unusual, infused with humor and impressive in its variety. She has…
Why Only White from TEDA Showers Us With Color
Update: Sadly this company and their products -as well as the sites listed in this post, no longer seem to exist. But I’m not removing it because the items are so great to look at at may inspire someone else to produce something similar. (more…)
Bond no. 9 Bottle Design Competition: Make Sure Yours Doesn’t Stink
You may or may not be familiar with Bond no.9. Recognizable by the unique bottle design, Bond no.9 makes 34 different fragrances inspired by the…
Russian Born Artist Yulia Brodskaya’s Paper Graphics
Russian born Yulia Brodskaya is a talented artist, graphic designer, typographer, and most impressively, paper sculptor. Her works are used in both commercial and personal applications and her paper graphics are precious 3D sculptures that incorporate all her talents into one art form. (more…)
Graphic Designers Gave Us 30 Reasons (& Hundreds More) To Elect Obama
Shepard Fairey's HOPE Obama poster is probably the most recognized presidential propaganda out there, but he certainly wasn't the only one who designed a beautiful…
1800 Tequila Bottles; First By Artists… Now By You.
1800 Tequila Essential Artists Campaign -- Earlier this year 1800® Tequila launched an inspired campaign featuring nine cutting-edge artists it considers to be Essential. 1800…
Artist Designed Credit Cards: 100 for Epos & Visa
Over at NOTCOT, I spotted a post by Rice Candy about some artist designed credit cards. Unfortunately there was no link to the gallery of 100 designs created for the Japanese financial institution, Epos. After some scouring around, I finally found it. So, now I’ll share with you some more information and designs as well as a link to the site where you can see all 100 designs for yourself. (more…)
Designing The 2008 Olympic Pictograms and Those of Years Past
above left: Inscriptions on the Gui bronze vessels; above right: Pictograms of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Photo and graphic courtesy of ARCOG
Graphic designers had to consider how to create a look that represented China, but also how to design images that would be attractive to an international audience, ARCOG (the Art Research Center for the Olympic Games) deputy director Hang Hai explains. (more…)
All The Olympic Posters Throughout History & The Story Behind Those 5 Rings
The 2008 Olympiad games begin this week in Beijing and so I thought I’d take this opportunity to share with you some fun Olympic design history as well as some present Olympic design-related news all this week. Today we’ll start with the Olympic Posters, and the meaning behind the five rings. (more…)
