Oh what fun it is to ride

How many times we've said that is better to do real stuff?
No more photoshop filters from now on. If you want a b/w picture turn yourself in b/w.
That's it.

Merry Christmas anyway.

original @ laughingsquid.com

Have you seen it?

Well, first of all I love the series... but I think the opening sequence is pretty nice... maybe I'm just too much into it, could be.

Let's go for another episode!

Photoshop, once more!

I was actually wondering why Madonna is still looking like a virgin...
Here we are: Another photoshop's miracle!

More examples can be found here and here, enjoy! some of them are super disgusting.
We've been always against the over use of photo retouching, today the lesson is, if you really need to do it, at least do it properly!

[happy new year!]

Gustave Dorè

Don't ask me why, but I keep on running into this guy...
He's probably been illustrating everything.
Even quite amazingly I would say


[This Don quixote is awesome!]




[btw this is my favourite]

Question is: was I the only one ignoring his existence?
find more here and there

I ♥ this guy.

Scary!

brrrrrrr!

Another one going green?

It's now clear what all the worst companies around are trying to do: it is an attempt to pulverize the the green colour's skill of communicating environment friendly attitudes.
We we'll be soon surrounded by green crap everywhere.

Dipping pens!

Pdy is busy, learning to write.

Silvio rock star

With his rock star lifestyle,
Silvio had the first place as the one of the year!

Being Marc Ecko

This guy made one of my favourite hoodie.
And is making even pretty cool entries on his blog.

Worth to give a look.

Fontsquirrel.com

"Free fonts have met their match. We know how hard it is to find quality freeware that is licensed for commercial work. We've done the hard work, hand-selecting these typefaces and presenting them in an easy-to-use format."

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

Graphic Design in Afrika: Saki Mafundikwa

"What can save the world are ideas."

-Here the conference-

The fun theory

Can design change the world? :)

Feltron eight

Nicholas Feltron' s personal vizualization 2008, after the old one (the first image is from 2006) good thing that he went on with his freak analysis!
I'd be curious to see the information graphic of the time he spent taking notes of his life, maybe it's already there, hidden somewhere in the book!

No more b"||§#!t. Join the revolution!

The league of moveable type: A collection of open source fonts!

Pantone Pen Print

Is Daniel Eatock a graphic designer or an artist?
[researching on differences]
http://www.eatock.com/

Bum bum bum

Beautiful!

I wanted just to put something beautiful before going to sleep.
Just because sometimes I guess that more beauty is all what we need.

Running with the beast.

zZz - Running with the Beast from Conditional Design on Vimeo.

well... does it need any explanantions? I would just say, one more time: keep it real!

Jenson's Roman - 1470

What have typographers been doing for the past 500 years?

Art [&Crafts!]

check this out:



more information here

Synchronism

I was actually looking for this,
in order to reply the keep it real campain :)



but then I found this...
and I thought it was worth to share!
every time I pass by it I can't restrain myself to watch the whole one again!

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

I wish I was born in Asia.

"The most amazing thing is that they do this with their CLOTHES (not holding up cards). they have a jacket that is one color on the back, one on the front, and that they can open or close to show a third color shirt on the inside."

Keep it real.

We do love Python.

We are glad that all the things shown in the video below happened.

code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

...and we love this video too.
[we even love being nerd... but that's another story...]

Buuuuuuuullshit!

How sad?



Surfing around the internet looking for "inspirations" we run into this logos' supermarket. Absolutely nothing funny... a website where you can design, on line, your own logo with no needs to ask to any designers.

Just to be clear this is absolutely not how graphic design works.
That's crap.

Quoting from a comment in the blog where we found the link:
"You can delete this if you like, I won’t be offended, but SERIOUSLY! You’re advertising a fast-food logo site on a graphic design blog? I am seriously offended. Yes you can make stuff for free, but sites like this take away both business from people like me and the artistic integrity of our profession. It’s just sleezy."

God save graphic design!

Katsuragi!

Yes, we do have The Mug.

Olympus Pen

That's just another reason why we don't like Photoshop, post production and all those bullshits.

Keep it Real!

Bombay Sapphire at the London Design Festival: Designer Glass Competition winner

The Book of Bunny Suicides

Worth to see if you like to laugh about death too

Perhaps not everyone knows...

how the japanese empire flag looks like!
[Ema knew. Why on earth did he know?]

Syria

We're always talking about middle east. Today we were curious about how the middle east look like, how are exactly located the countries... how far is Iran from Turkey, and Georgia from Syria, and so on...

Now we know a little bit more. Hurray!

Typophile Film Festival 5 - opening titles

Damn' money!

Buongiorno blog!

Abbiamo recentemente inciampato nel sito di un pazzo che sembra veramente fare a pezzi quel che sta alla base delle nostre società e delle nostre crisi, abbene sì un'uomo che fa della moneta arte, e già con questo si guadagna un bel merito. Le sue composizioni sono fatte di veri dollari sminuzzati, a quanto pare, ma a parte il chiedersi come si possa trovare il coraggio di fare un gesto simile (maledetti euro la carta parte dai 5, e sono già troppi) ci siamo chiesti qual'è il potenziale comunicativo di un questo mezzo. Quanto e quando la materia di ciò che stiamo guardando ci influenza nel recepire il messaggio?

We’ve recently run into this crazy guy who is actually tearing to pieces what is the base of our society. He does turn money into art, already gaining a great merit this way. Apparently his compositions are made out of true chopped dollars, but then, after asking ourselves how to make such a mad action (damn euros the smallest is 5, already too much), we’ve been thinking about the great potential this experience could have. When and how the matter of what we are looking at is affecting the way we receive the message?

di parco

in parco!