A well written and executed, corporate film spoof from Optimus the for 2010 AICP-Midwest Conference

“These standards are constantly monitored…”
“…and these monitors are constantly monitored.”
“The logo molecules travel to the brain”
“…All this is included in the logonom lifetime 2 year service”

for € 3,00 cheaper get the Street Style Memory Game

get it here

found on flickr

more on flickr

get it

QCC

Mickey mouse

Donald Duck

Armoff

Art series that simulates the comic between the abstract, surreal and the sculptural.

by helvetictoc

In 1979 Philip Glass wrote a series of short vocal and instrumental pieces for Sesame Street called “Geometry of Circles.”

great find by philbrewer

H the Mirror

Chiri

by Rub-Kandy / Mimmo Rubino >Rome, Italy,

http://app.recordmakers.com/demo/YouTube4.mov

I’m not a fan of the iphone. In fact i’m kind of fed up with the mass direction apple is going.. But this iphone app by Record makers is making me revise my all anti-iphone position… Record makers are a French independent label and they asked artists Mrzyk & Moriceau to brand their 10th birthday. Mrzyk & Moriceau created this beautiful iPhone app inwhich you can create random art by swiping different parts of the drawing.

Have fun with one finger only! Drawings by Mrzyk & Moriceau
Sounds by Mr. Oizo
Opening by Sébastien Tellier

record makers

Record Makers are the ones behind Sébastien Tellier and thus created this video to commemorate their 10 years of activity > by Mrzyk & Moriceau as well

more stills

If you’re in L.A., it’s there :

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Chi Velorum- Letterpress Dice Print

Delta Eridani- Letterpress Dice Print

Alpha Coronae Borealis- Letterpress Dice Print

Beta Arietis- Letterpress Dice Print

The Letterpress Dice process

The compositions are built by arranging between 720 dice and 1,147 on the bed of the press, and ink was rolled directly onto the face of the die for each impression. They are printed on a very light green japanese handmade paper called Kitakata, which has a deckle on all four edges.

The size are between 8½” x 11″ and 22″x26″

By Stukenborg on etsy

GRIZZLY BEAR

H1N1

L.W.T.U.A.

click on them to view more details
Poster Ads from BBDO São Paulo for Getty images.

From Artist Buff Diss, Done with Masking tape.

Talked about him here

Creative Review Cover

Central Saint Martins

Creative Review Bier

A-Z of Money

New York Times Magazine

From UK based Chrissie Macdonald

‘ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH’ ENDPAPER FOR FALLON

PUBLICIS CREME EGG EXHIBITION. EASTER 08

QVEST MAGAZINE FASHION STORY

DER SPIEGEL EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

INTOXICATE

London based illustrator / image maker > James Dawe

Acade

Oberbaumbrücke

Holey Worship

train train

From Artist Buff Diss, Berlin. All done with Masking tape, leaving the authorities slightly baffled.

WOLF MAGICK

the skull

by SW▲MPY

Poster for the short film Connected — a sci-fi western Directed by Jens Raunkjær Christensen and Jonas Drotner Mouritsen.

Par Jesse draxler et collaboration avec Hillary Berg pour l’exposition Art Form

of Montreal – Id Engager from Polyvinyl Record Co.
Official video for of Montreal’s “Id Engager.” Directed by Marc Reisbig of SSSR and Hanne Berkaak.
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Why did Brian Wilson use Cooper Black on the cover of Pet Sounds? Why did Obama use Gotham for his election propaganda? It has long been apparent that typefaces reflect the character of the person using them, and that type choice, as well as the words that are typed, is a powerful conveyor of meaning.

This fun interactive microsite figures out which typeface best represents you. The recommendation is sometimes controversial but always unerringly true…. so they say…

By answering 4 questions, “what type are you ” determined I was dot matrix… Now I have to kill myself.

So what type are you ? > A brilliant little app by Pentagram

password : character

merci hobbs pour le fil

Last call for Düsseldorft
Drapeaux des nations > belle interprétation graphique et minimaliste pour les olympiques de 2012
by CYAN

Powers Of Ten from VILLA on Vimeo.

Powers of Ten is a 1968 short documentary film written and directed by Charles Eames and Ray Eames. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (see also logarithmic scale and order of magnitude). The film is an adaptation of the 1957 book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke, and more recently is the basis of a new book version. Both adaptations, film and book, follow the form of the Boeke original, adding color and photography to the black and white drawings employed by Boeke in his seminal work.

FREQUENZA

FREQUENZA LIMITED

misc.

du fictif > des “labels” imaginés par le studio berlinois ICFF.
On en raffole.

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Inkhead > Florian Hutter > the new english

Inkhead > Florian Hutter > the new english

Inkhead > Florian Hutter > the new english

Crusades > Terrie McGettigan > the new english

Anatomica >Lisa Turner > the new english

Anatomica >Lisa Turner > the new english

the englishness > their stylistic compass

+ get his Malevolent Melody book HERE

malevolent melody book from mc bess on Vimeo.

Sleep Wake Up

In the Woods

Well kind of

This Close to Death

Shark boy

from Cape Town, South Africa > well known illustrator Jordan Metcalf

Fausto Colavecchia ; p34

9000vs0006 ; p05

Dani Scharf ; p43

Katrin Kirojood ; p16

Created by Nazario Graziano, ANTI Magazine aims to showcase outstanding visual content as an online magazine and also through future exhibitions all around the world. It showcases all styles of visual media, including: illustration, graphic design, photography, drawing, painting, etc.
It free to download here and best of all, anyone can contribute.

christmas skull

acid rain

7

cloud hand

my dead cycle

Nazario Graziano does Illustrations, graphic design, artdirection, clouds, rain and rainbows.
he the founder of RevolverLover and ANTI magazine.

via unurth

poster > Amnesty International’s Poverty is Modern campaign

poster > Amnesty International’s Poverty is Modern campaign

EBOY > Berlin, Germany

Founded by Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr in 1998, Eboy quickly embraced the new possibilities of digital design. The mass reproduction, worldwide reach and non-existent printing costs of pixel art led them to pioneer the field, and now Eboy has created pixel design for clients such as MTV and Adidas.

They recently did an art work for Amnesty International’s Poverty is Modern campaign.
the web site is HERE
the poster is HERE > sold for 22euros, 4 of which will be donated to Amnesty International.
46.8×33.1 inch > CMYK offset, 1st Edition

For the Swedish financial magazine Diego about the increasement of men having plastic surgery, 2007.

via IDN > 15th Anniversary Edition — p116-117

via amassblog

if you don’t know who was Max Bill, read this earlier post

Lees Mee braille postzegels > stamps by René Put.

son livre > Miscellaneous Abstract



Édition Gavillet & Rust

Francis Baudevin vit et travaille à Genève, Suisse.
Francis Baudevin se sert, dans sa peinture, de ce qui constitue la trame de notre environnement visuel le plus immédiat; il peint sur de la toile, ou au mur, en les agrandissant à peu près dix fois, des lay-out d’emballages de produits industriels de consommation courante (avec une prédilection pour les pharmaceutiques et les pâtissiers). Il ne conserve de l’image originale que sa structure formelle, tout élément textuel disparaît. Si les compositions qui en résultent entretiennent, bien sûr, un fort rapport de connivence avec la peinture abstraite la plus géométrique, c’est pourtant bien de figuration qu’il s’agit ; il portraiture en quelque sorte des conditionnements’ ; et ce mot doit s’entendre sous toutes ses acceptions :emboîtage tout autant que réglage des comportements. Francis Baudevin renvoie, avec beaucoup d’ironie,la peinture abstraite à toute la fatalité de son devenir décoratif / marchand ; il anticipe et retourne à son profit le processus de la récupération pour mieux le tourner en dérision.

Gill Sans from Matthieu Dufour on Vimeo.

This motion typography (in french) is about the Gill Sans.
It sums up everything about that font.

by robert samuel hanson

via UNURTH street art

via UNURTH street art

Tous les créatifs connaissent jusqu’à un certain point le travail de Sagmeister > On aime, on aime pas, mais personne reste indifférent. Depuis longtemps Sagmeister travaille sa griffe avec une certaine dévotion particulière, ce qui lui merite une notoriété dans le monde du design graphique, de la pub. La récente pub Absolute ANTHEM est incontestablement une “inspicopie” des expérimentations typographiques de Stefan Sagmeister par l’agence TBWA\CHIAT\DAY New York.

Maintenant le débat est ouvert; Est-ce que la popularité d’un style ou d’un artiste justifie l’appropriation de sa démarche artistique dans le processus de commercialisation publicitaire?

Dans un monde gris je vois souvent noir…

Merci Marion-Isabelle pour le fil.

Absolute ANTHEM par TBWA\CHIAT\DAY New York

ABSOLUT ANTHEM from tr3nt3trois on Vimeo.

Et maintenant Stefan Sagmeister

Aussi petite parenthèse, ceci rappel le travail de Julien Vallé et Karim Zariffa intitulé Things I have learned in my life so far résultant d’un workshop intensif d’une semaine dirigé par Stefan Sagmeister à Percé en Gaspésie.

great idea from rolandtiangco.com

Download the font here

iQ font – When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.

Eckhard Neumann: FUNCTIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN IN THE 20′S. NYC: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967. First edition. Full cloth over boards in dust jacket: a near-fine or better copy with light wear overall. Interior unmarked and very clean. Classic early design work that is now sadly out-of-print.

8.25 x 8.25 hardcover book with 96 pages and 113 illustrations in b/w or two colors. This influential book was the first scholarly study to tie together the disparate elements of the European Avant-Garde (Bauhaus, Dada, Cubism, Futurism, de Stijl, etc. ) and how they related to the emerging field of Graphic Design. Highly recommended.

From the book: “This important book documents that astonishinglycreative decade — the 1920′s, with its entirely new and functional visual language. The innovative art trends of the twentieth century, which include Cubism, Futurism, and Dadism, have had a determining influence on the development of today’s visual language.”

Eckhard Neumann reveals through a clear and well-illustrated text the close historical connection between fine art and graphic design, and discusses the origins of graphic design today.”

Stop motion for STM from Si j'aurais su on Vimeo.

and the making of :

STM making of from Si j'aurais su on Vimeo.

Max bill considered himself primarily an architect, yet he was also an inventive and tireless creator of type fonts and commercial logos, as well as being a designer with wonderful sense of visual humor. this rich monograph gives max bill fans an extensive and inspiring look at works for which he has received little attention, in the fields of typography, advertising and book design. Today, many people consider Max to be one of the major players of Graphic Design as we know it today.

BILL. Fleischmann, Gerd et al.
Max Bill: Typography, Advertising, Book Design.
A well produced comprehensive view into the graphic world of Max Bill. German/English.

hardcover: 304 pages
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 11 inches, 600 color reproductions
Category: Design, Graphic Design
Binding: Cl.
Pages: 304 pp
Publisher: Niggli
Year: 1999.
Publication Place: Zurich,
ISBN: 3721203410
Book Id: 29230

You can find the book here, among many other places