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Wes Posters

Nick — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:31:51 +0000

Raleigh: [Into tape recorder, softly] Dudley suffers from a rare disorder combining symptoms of amnesia, dyslexia, and color-blindness, with a highly acute sense of hearing.
Dudley Heinsbergen: [from adjoining room] I’m not color blind, am I?
Raleigh: I’m afraid you are.

From this amazing designer, via The Rushmore Academy

States United

Nick — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:07:09 +0000

Via sharesomecandy

Tourism Posters for Time Travel.

Nick — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:40:38 +0000

From The Echo Park Time Travel Mart.

Via ISO50

Let Yourself Feel

Nick — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:40:01 +0000

This made me brainswoon. Enjoy.

Click here to view the embedded video.

by Esteban Diácono. Via the ever-wonderful SwissMiss

It’s a Beautiful Word: Trippy Scrabble Ads in France

Nick — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:53:06 +0000

Hallo Gang! Just wanted to point your looking-balls to a psychedelic new ad campaign Mattel has commissioned in the French market. Don’t know how popular Scrabble is in Île-de-France, but these ads are enough to make me fall in love and move there.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Brought to my attention by the delightful illustration blog, Drawn.

Rembrandtooine, They’re on Rembrandtooine

Nick — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:12:52 +0000

This post is for Woody, but the image is for my Alfons Mucha loving bestie, Dave.

The ethereal geniuses at Something Awful had a Photoshop contest where they combined classical art with Star Wars characters. Here’s another:

Excitement ensues. Enjoy.

The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds

Nick — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:09:26 +0000

Seed Magazine, which my girlfriend reads voraciously and has gotten me hooked on, just produced a video on their blog. It visualizes the evolution of life on Earth in one minute.

Pretty fucking exciting.

Sorry, it wouldn’t embed. :(

Harry Potter, Retro-imagined

Nick — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:16:49 +0000

Nothing makes me more nostalgic than covers of old books, especially those 70s looking Penguin Classics.

Illustrator M. S. Corley reimagines the covers of the Harry Potter books. Instant nostalgiafication.

Typography + Wes Anderson = I need to get a REAL hobby

Nick — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:16:16 +0000

Blood of Christ H.S. Bus

I thought I was a weirdo for noticing how my favorite director, Wes Anderson, uses Futura so well all the time. And I never get tired of it. You might.

Then some rad dude wrote a whole blog post about Futura in The Royal Tenenbaums, with screen grabs from the DVD. It’s worth the read, if only to convince you that WA is one of those auteurs for whom nothing is too small not to notice.

BONUS POINTS if you can, in the comments, share how and when you saw the Royal Tenenbaums. I saw it 3 times in the theaters, all at the Laemmle in Pasadena, twice I paid, once I cried. It’s the scene with Chaz and Royal in the ambulance where A. Baldwin is narrating and all that shit. Gets me where it counts.

Graphic Design We Can Believe In

Nick — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:38:00 +0000

A rejected Obama 08 logo.

So, yeah… Barack Obama is president. I hadn’t written about it as I was on blog hiatus all through November. Mostly because I was brain dead from how excited I was.

And as a lover of all things design, I was always amped about the graphic design behind the Obama campaign. I mean, light years ahead of anything we’d seen before in national politics.

Logo Design Love has a riveting look at the finalists for the iconic Obama 08 logo. They went through many iterations, and it’s always interesting to think that something as iconic as Obamas logo was actually part of a process. Sometimes we just assume this stuff jumps out of thin air.

Anyway, check it out.