May
22
It’s nearly lunch time and today’s special is textures. I love textures so when Smashing Magazine announced their Texture Contest, I start digging on my library and found these, so without further ado, I present The Olive stripes curtain, one of my submissions for the Smashing Magazine’s Texture Contest. More textures after the jump.
May
22
This is the new 2008 Gs. 50.000 bill. The new design features the face and work of Agustín Pío Barrios “Mangoré”, one of the greatest guitar player and composer the world has seen.
May
20
Yesterday I had a surreal trip to the supermarket that included meeting Mr. Robert Eggplant and finding a dog food called “Blog Dog”
May
20
Having a slow Tuesday and an IQ of 180? Then Google Treasure Hunt is for you.
May
16
Here’s a piece of advise for all my friends and readers in the US and across the pond: Sell all your belongings now and move south. I’m not talking about Miami-Kinda-South. I’m talking about south, south, like Buenos Aires South.
May
16
A bunch of people got together back in 2005 and decided that the internets needed his own dedicated day and for some reason they picked May 17th as the “D” Day (or is it “I” Day). You can read the press release here.
May
09
Designer and Illustrator Bob Staake loves Posters, specifically European Posters from the mid-20th Century and he was kind enough to create an amazing collection of his favorite posters which you can see here.
These bold, graphic and inventive posters continue to captivate contemporary illustrators, and while many of us have liberally taken inspiration from iconic poster graphics, they pale in comparison to those created from 1930-1960 in France, Italy, Germany, Great Britain, and virtually every country on the European continent.
- Bob Staake
There goes my friday.
May
08
“Ten Thousand Cents” is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100.
The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, “crowdsourcing,” “virtual economies,” and digital reproduction. You can view the incredible work here.
May
08
by this excellent poster? or is it an Album Cover? via the always interesting Luke Dorny
May
07
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
I feel so much better now that someone with enough respect and trajectory in the media as Mr. Zeldman shared his point of view on the matter. It remind me of the “100 % Intentional” poster I did for Veerle’s “What is Graphic Design” Poster Competition back in February. You can follow the discusion on his website.
