Category Archives: design

Stihl Ad Campaign – Blown Away

 Kudos to the team at Winsper in Boston for a brilliant ad campaign for Stihl products. Above is one of the magazine ads which is part of the campaign, with great copy highlighting the bad economy. It’s rare in today’s…

Everything Old Is New

 Created in-house, the new Antropologie Home Catalog features a clever retro-scrapbook look. As evidenced by current trends of design and marketing today, the use of retro-colors and fabric patterns seem right at home on this home catalog site.

Type Desk Reference

 It’s rare to find a contemporary book with such clarity which details the details of typography. This book serves as a handy desktop reference book yet is chocked full of details for a more in-depth study of typography.

Shepard Fairey In Japanese

 I have a passion for, and am intrigued by, textile designs. Their repetitive nature of creation is so similar to techniques found in web background images. Shepard Fairey has an interesting selection of prints based on fabric patterns, including this…

Gallup.com Re-Designed

 Created by Pentagram, the newly re-designed Gallup.com offers well-organized info-bites highlighting, what I would guess are, some of the higher trafficked and requested information Gallup has available. This is an amzing use of typography to create clear and legible bits…

Audiovisual Experiment By Lanvideosource

 ReallySimpleSeeds from Lanvideosource on Vimeo Video patch extracts and compares words taken from three news websites (italian, european and global). Structure created interacts in real-time with audio frequencies and is partially sequenced. Video patch sends back triggers to audio section…

14 Web Design Cheat Sheets

 This article provides a very useful list of downloadable cheat sheets for Photoshop, Adobe Tool Cheats (useful in multiple Adobe products), CSS and more. If you’re a web designer, or any designer who uses Adobe products (and who doesn’t), these…

Non-Traditional Uses For WordPress

 DESIGNM.AG offers a great article on “11 Non-Traditional Uses Of WordPress.” This is an eye-opening aricle, complete with how-to links, and includes creating sites with uses for managing e-mail newsletters, directories,forums, contacts and more.

Life & Times of Paul Rand

 Lovingly executed and chocked full of features, the new paul-rand.com offers a very thorough gallery of this master designers work (including hard-to-find prototypes and fabric designs), an historical timeline of the designer’s work, and thoughts from this 20th century master.

Times Redesign

 On Saturday, January 24, 2009, The Times appeared in its new incarnation. The new broadsheet design (maybe we call it “retro”) harkens to its past and leaves today’s info-byte/tabloid skimmers with something to sink their eye teeth into. Though the…