Recent Posts Tagged With 'graphic design'

• Chris Greenwood’s Igloo: Album Artwork

  Posted on Wednesday December 30th, 2009 at 20:12 in music, drawing, indie music, graphic design, design, illustration

  I just got my copies of Chris Greenwood’s new album, Igloo, which I laid out and did the illustration for. I’m really happy with how it came out. My favorite part of the design is the disc which has the rough sketches I drew when lay...

• Flickr Friday: Erik Nitsche’s Photostream

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 23:00 in graphic design, design, flickr friday

  These images posted in Erik Nitsche’s Photostream are of various General Dynamics ads and annual reports from the 1950’s. The photostream is maintained by BustBright in Los Angeles as a personal inventory of Nitsche’s work as well...

• Andrew Zuckerman:Bird

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 11:21 in Photography, graphic design, photos, animals

  I used to hate birds but my wife and bought a parakeet for a pet a few years ago and I realized how interesting and strange they are. Birds have a lot of personality displayed by their movement and energy level. Our birds seem generally happy al...

• Adobe Browserlab to The Rescue

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 18:32 in graphic design, design tools, farmidable.com, farmidable

  I’ve always been a Mac fella. I’ve only owned one PC and the thing was such a pain to use I almost never touched the thing. The only problem I really hit with Macs is when I’m building web sites. On a Mac, if you don’t have V...

• NASA’s Images Library

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 18:02 in Photography, graphic design, photos, space

  I recently heard an interview on Morning Becomes Eclectic, I can’t remember who it was, but they mentioned that they used images from NASA’s image library for their album artwork. Because the images are taken with taxpayer money, they ...

• Dirty Weekend

  Posted on Saturday September 19th, 2009 at 07:02 in painting, graphic design, design, typography

  What is Dirty Weekend? from Steve Haslip on Vimeo. This is a great idea. It’s especially great to me be because I’ve been in the process of migrating to our web department in our firm and have done less and less hands on work over time. ...

• ANDY GILMORE ROCHESTER, NY

  Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 06:42 in graphic design

  I just came across some Andy Gilmore’s geometric work and thought I would share. He’s a draftsman, designer, and musician based in Rochester, NY. Check out his site here. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Rel...

• ISO50

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 18:20 in graphic design, illustration

  My good friend Justin pointed out the work of ISO50 a.k.a. Scott Hansen and I was intantly amazed. Not only is Scott a great pattern designer but he’s got some great retro, for lack of a better word, posters too. Check out his site here, blog h...

• Flickr Friday: Bahaosorg

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 17:44 in graphic design, design, illustration, flickr friday

  I don’t know anything about Bahaosorg but I like the images in his/her photostream. Most of the photo stream consists of what looks like album art and includes both illustration and design. Check it out and if you know more please let us know. ...

• Terry Posters

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 21:38 in graphic design, Film, illustration, posters

  In keeping with the theme of archives, to go along side  my last post about Book Cover Archive, Terry Posters shop is run by a group of people who also manage two biggest art cinemas in Prague. They are the largest film posters dealer and have a...

• Book Cover Archive

  Posted on Tuesday January 27th, 2009 at 06:43 in books, graphic design, archive, cover design

  Above are some images from a site that really appreciates book cover design. Book Cover Archive features thousands of book covers and designers all categorized for your viewing pleasure, it’s defiantly the kind of site you can get l...

• Flickr Friday: James White

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 06:59 in graphic design, shapes, poster design, geometric, flickr friday

  Happy Flickr Friday everyone! James White, a studio designer and personal artist from Nova Scotia, has some great geometric poster designs in his photostream. He’s also got a blog called Signalnoise. Related posts:Viv Miller Australian artis...

• Celestial Dragon

  Posted on Sunday December 21st, 2008 at 17:38 in graphic design

  I’ve been meaning to post this for awhile. This Celestial Dragon wallpaper, designed by Karen Hsu, and many other great wallpaper designs can be found at Flavor Paper. No related posts. No related posts....

• Flickr Friday: artdsgnr’s photostream

  Posted on Friday December 19th, 2008 at 16:14 in graphic design, design, studio, flickr friday

  What I like most about this photostream from artdsgnr (aka Matt Pierce from DesignWeld) is that it is evident that to Matt design is not just a bunch of images, words and planned out spaces but it is means of looking at the world around us. The pho...

• The Rainbow Monkey

  Posted on Wednesday December 17th, 2008 at 02:19 in art, graphic design, design, pattern, rainbow

  Can I just say how much I love Markus Hofko’s work at The Rainbow Monkey?  As may be evident from the above examples, his portfolio is rich in both concept and style.  Click on over and check out the rest. Related posts:Andrew Holder Andre...

• Flickr Friday: The Grid System Group

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 01:00 in graphic design, design, layout, grids, flickr friday

  For all you graphic designers out there I recently saw a post by our friends at Grain Edit that pointed to a website all about grid systems. The site also has a Flickr group called The Grid System where members upload their grid based designs and ins...

• Generic/Specific Zine

  Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 12:59 in drawing, graphic design, black and white, friends, printmaking, generic, zine, diana mackenzie, meghan burch

  These are pictures of the Generic/Specific Zine, created for the Generic Zine Exchange. In the Art Studio at The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, visitors were invited to draw specific items from memory on separate sheets of pap...

• Greenwood, Mississippi

  Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 19:06 in photo, graphic design, illustration, photos, links, commentary, street, travels, farmidable.com, jpb

    For the last month I have been filming a documentary in the South. Made some friends, ate alot of catfish and fried pickles. Listened to Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters. Made a deal with the devil down by the crossroads….Now Im back up north...

• Flickr Friday: sebográficos

  Posted on Friday November 28th, 2008 at 17:51 in graphic design, design, illustration, photos, digital, farmidable, flickr friday, sebographicos

  Check out sebográficos for this week’s Flickr Friday.  I especially like the samurai! Related posts:Flickr Friday: Azul dc I know we’re not the only Flickr Friday in...Flickr Friday: David Rubin For Flickr Friday this week, we’...

• Flocks Herds Swarms Pattern

  Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 18:14 in graphic design, download, wallpaper, pattern, desktop, gallery, birds, Bees, swarms, ipod touch, new wallpapers

  It’s been a while since our last pattern but we’ve finally got a new one. If you’ve been following our posts you may have seen some of the prelim studies for it. The pattern is based off of research on collective swarm theory. It wa...

• Russian Group Show @ Rotopol

  Posted on Monday November 17th, 2008 at 19:06 in art, painting, graphic design, illustration, war, red, communism, russian. design

  I just info about this Russian Group show posted on Little Chimp Society. Having read many Russian Novels I’m a huge fan the motherland. These posters are amazing. I wish I could see the show. You can learn more at Roropolpress. My favorite ...

• 1200 Questions

  Posted on Wednesday November 12th, 2008 at 19:18 in graphic design, black and white, illustration, modern, ink, simple, 1950's design

  In my previous post I posted a bunch of how-to handbooks that my wife found in our grandmother’s basement. Being my favorite I saved this booklet for it’s own post. When I first held it in my hands I was amazed by the simplicity of the...

• How-To Books from the 1950’s

  Posted on Tuesday November 11th, 2008 at 18:08 in graphic design, illustration, typography, how-to book, 1950's design, self cover

  My wife’s grandmother’s basement flooded about a month ago and boy were there some great old finds down there. Among them were these two-color self cover how-to handbooks from the 1950’s. The type and illustrations in all of these a...

• Flickr Friday: Grain Edit.com’s Photostream

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 18:37 in graphic design, patterns, children's books, 1970's, 1960's, 1950's, dave, flickr friday

  This week’s Flickr Friday features Grain Edit’s collection of design related images from the 50s, 60s, 70s including typography and picture books. Grain Edit also has a great blog that includes interviews, a book shelf and more images ...

• Bobby Solomon: Kitsune Noir

  Posted on Saturday August 23rd, 2008 at 09:19 in indie music, graphic design, commentary, Other Stuff, bobby, solomon, kitsune, mix music, desktop wallpaper project, nior

  We’ve never done a post about an entire blog before, but we’ve been following Bobby Solomon’s blog, Kitsune Noir, for awhile now. The blog’s topics include art, design, music, movies, fashion and technology. The blog’s d...

• Done Daily Design Workout

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 19:15 in drawing, graphic design, illustration, graphics, Workout, daily, challenge, done, jonas buntenbruch

  Done is a daily design workout by Jonas Buntenbruch. Each day he spends 30 to 60 minutes creating one design piece. On his about page Jonas says he is challenging himself to see if he can produce visuals on a daily basis. Kinda inspirational if yo...

• Bigoli de Bassan

  Posted on Monday August 4th, 2008 at 02:40 in graphic design, cooking, pasta, barilla, penne, homegoods, spaghetti, marshalls, farmidable, bigoli de bassan, e penne de alpin de bassan

  I encountered a box of pasta (the Bigoli de Bassan) in the food section of a local Marshalls (yeah, it’s kind of lame that I shop at Marshalls, I know…) a few weeks back and was so taken with the design that I purchased it on this basis a...

• extraverage™’s photostream

  Posted on Friday August 1st, 2008 at 12:58 in graphic design, Color, Flickr, graphic, creation, blogroll, friday, skateboard, typeface, flickr friday, exraverage

  Flickr Friday is here again and we’ve got a gret designer to show you. Extraverage has done graphic design work for IDN and Creation Skateboards and many other corporate types. Exraverage also has some great typeface design and personal work ...

• Evgeny Kiselev Designs and Illustrations

  Posted on Wednesday July 30th, 2008 at 06:09 in graphic design, illustration, patterns, abstract, colorful, geometric, evgeny, globs, kiselev

  Evgeny Kiselev’s diverse work ranges from geometric patterns to stylized abstract illustration. The work is colorful and fun and I am very envious of it. It makes me want to cry it’s so good. On his site there’s a description ...

• ffffound will fffffind you!

  Posted on Wednesday July 23rd, 2008 at 16:45 in graphic design, illustration, webdesign, websites, images, drawings, tangents

  FFFFOUND is an “inspirational image-bookmarking experience”, whatever that means. FFFFOUND is way easier to understand when you visit the site yourself and give it a test drive. It has proved to me to be just as inspiring as they claim, ...