Shredding Time

The Chrono-Shredder is a device that reminds us of both date and time. There’s no on or off button. As minutes pass, a continuous roll of time is shredded until you end up with a big pile of paper by the New Year.

Designer: Susanna Hertrich

Color Calender

A pretty colorful calendar concept. Each month color is associated with a month — e.g. blue stands for January and red stands for July. The last page contains contact references to designer’s portfolio. An effective brochure design. Designed by Jonathan Davies.

House Industries

My booklet arrived.

Trailers - EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER

Trailers - EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER

Barbara Kruger

Enter Barbara Kruger. She layers found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to. In their trademark black letters against a slash of red background, some of her instantly recognizable slogans read “I shop therefore I am,” and “Your body is a battleground." Much of her text questions the viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire. See website here.

hand type

Eager to start this project. I'm working with the ampersand. Inspiration for illustrating letters: the dailydropcap and lettercult. Also, here are a whole bunch of NYT Illustrations of their notable gothic lettered "T".

the lost-type co-op

Also a site envy, Lost Type is a pay-what-you-want type foundry, the first of its kind. Founded by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, it distributes fonts from designers all over the world. Also has a neat blog. Users have the opportunity to pay whatever they like for a font, you can even type in '$0' for a free download. 100% of funds from these sales go directly to the designers of the fonts, respectively, and Lost Type takes no cut of sales.

type-design

Working on a funny typeface... Not sure what to call it.

Should I work for free?

Neat flow chart by Jessica Hische. Very handy and humorous and will help you figure out whether or not a project should be done pro-bono or if the client should "make it rain". You can buy it as a 5-color letterpress print on her website. Maybe I'll invest in it to hang in my studio one day?

Infographics Muse

The Cool Infographics Blog has quickly grown to be one of the top sites in the information design industry. Inspiration for web and graphic designers, and for a current graphic problems project dealing with data collected on costs at the 2011 Utah State Fair.












Also, I just discovered a new app (for all you iPhone people), just Infographics: by Column Five Media.

completely unrelated to design

fashion and music muse: i've been listening to janis joplin radio on pandora. she was a bit of everything; singer, songwriter, painter, dancer... she's so fabulous just look at her.


fashionfashion and music muse: i've been listening to janis joplin radio. she is so fabulous. just look at her.

daily drop cap

Daily drop Cap is a project that Jessica Hische started in September of 2009 in which she illustrated a decorative letter every day (or most every day). The project continued through twelve alphabets and are available for non-commercial use as drop caps for personal blogs, etc. See the full project here. And then here are a few of my favorites.