A kern-el of truth...

Ah! The kerning on the Casino Jack ads hurts my eyes. Painful. Just a thought...

Tunes for your Tuesday

Some music for you.

Sky box

Daniel Mihalyo and Annie Han created these installations in Washington state along the border of Canada. As "billboardless billboards," they frame the sky, making art out of nature. Read more about the project here.

Teach Parents Tech

TeachParentsTech.org is sheer brilliance. 'Nuff said.

Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes

In this freezing cold weather (complete with a little bit of snowfall), these snowflakes (made with paper and scissors, like the ones we made in elementary school) remind me of the nice parts of winter. How pretty are they? I think attempting a much more basic version is going on my project list.

Numbers by Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Oh, hello, beautiful Numbers.
The always amazing Hoefler & Frere-Jones designed a package of 15 different number typefaces.

From their site:

For more than a century, typefounders considered numbers separately from the provision of other printing types. Nineteenth century type specimen books often displayed a separate section containing fonts of numbers alone, many of which contained unique features suited to specific kinds of settings. Fonts for tables contained digits designed to a standard width, so that columns would neatly align; those created for calendars contained forms such as "24/31" to accommodate orphan Sundays. The practice of creating specialized number fonts began to disappear at the beginning of the twentieth century, vanishing completely by the dawn of the digital age. But recognizing the usefulness of this practice, H&FJ has revived the tradition with its Numbers series of fonts.

The fonts in the Numbers series take their inspiration not from the history of printing types, but from other kinds of numbering familiar from the modern environment.

Included in the set are: Bayside modeled after ornamental house numbers, Claimcheck inspired by ticket stubs, Delancey from tenement doorways, Depot from vintage railcars, Deuce based on playing cards, Dividend from an antique check writer, Greenback based on U. S. currency, Indicia inspired by rubber stamps, Premium after vintage gas pumps, Prospekt based on Soviet house numbers, Redbird inspired by New York subways, Revenue from cash register receipts, Strasse after European enamel signs, Trafalgar inspired by British monuments, and Valuta after Hungarian banknotes.

Vintage board game

Vintage board game from the 1800's. Swoon.

Birdy Juice

Um...how cute are these?!

Birdy Juice boxes by Mats Ottdal

Open Daybook

The Open Daybook is a calendar/journal/sketchbook. 365 artists contributed to the book, each creating a work of art for his/her assigned day of the year. The rest of the page is left blank, inviting the owner to contribute notes, sketches, or daily schedules. Because there is no year on the book, it can be used year after year as a perpetual calendar until the owner runs out of space. From the website, "As the owner of the book doodles, plans for the future and records the past, a second book is created, a collaboration in which each artist’s day becomes the owner’s day as well." Nice.

Come together

Loving Post Typography's illustration for the Washington Post.

Dana Tanamashi

If you haven't seen her work yet, Dana Tanamashi makes really great hand-drawn typography with chalk. Fittingly, she currently works for Louise Fili (one of my design heroes I've mentioned many a time around here).

Lovers' lollipop

One of my favorite comedians, Demetri Martin, now has a site set up where he posts daily drawings. Here's the best one so far:

Color me happy

For a fun little coloring book/music video experience from the lovely Au Revoir Simone, click here.

P.S. Polka dotted cats are much cooler than normal cats.

Mr. Po-stampy-head

Speaking of stamps...check out these fun stamps from the UK. The stamps and accompanying stickers allow you to make customized faces and outfits out of the pictures of fruits and vegetables. Genius!



(Via Letter Writers Alliance)

Postage stamp rugs

Postage stamp rugs? Okay...yes, please.

Converse SoHo

How cool is this installation at the new Converse store in SoHo? See more here.

Clothespin sculpture

Love this installation in Belgium!

Tree of Codes

Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is one of my very favorite books, so I was excited to hear about his new project, a beautifully designed "interactive" book. The book, Tree of Codes, uses a preexisting text (The Street of Crocodiles) along with intricate die cuts to create a new text. The reader can interact with the pages to unfold the new story. Hooray for books like this one proving that print is still alive and valuable! Check out more information on the book here.

Inflatable sculptures

Joshua Allen Harris makes awesome street sculptures that look like trash lying on subway grates...until a subway passes. Check out the video below to see them come to life.

Late to sleep, late to rise...

Finally! My sleeping habits are justified. According to this article, I'm clearly just brilliant...or something.

Snackable styling

Love, love, love this styling work by Katrin Schacke.








(via I dream about type)

24-hour print

Simply brilliant letterpress print from Dolce Press.



(via design work life)

Philosophy of an artist

A good philosophy. John Maeda's haiku via Clifton Burt's print.

Mat & Nat

Finally, a nice laptop bag (and vegan, too...though, for a note on "vegan," check this graphic out). It always astounds me that nicer laptop bags don't exist. Find it here.

Breaking it up

Something far more interesting than using Facebook user data for targeted advertising: Using it to look at cultural trends. David McCandless and Lee Byron culled data from Facebook status updates to determine patterns in breakup habits, as you can see by the graph below. Read more about it here.

Old-school

Old magazine covers are just so lovely. A picture's worth a thousand words, yes?





(P.S. I've been incredibly busy lately, but I can't believe I haven't written for a whole month! What?! Well, here I am again.)