Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Puma’s Clever Little Bag

Feb. 04 / 12

So I picked myself up some Ligas today, and since I finally had the infamous bag in my possession (infamous in the design industry, anyway): I decided to snap some shots and blog about it real quick.

Dubbed Clever Little Bag, this unit of awesomeness is not only topless, missing a large portion of wasteful cardboard, cut out of one piece of material which goes together like a puzzle, and comes hidden in a closable, reusable bag which will mostly certainly become my new lunch bag; but its also saves a few (20) million megajoules of electricity, 8,500 tons of paper, 1 million litres of oil, 500,000 litres of diesel, and 275 tons of plastic. And it looks pretty, coming in a bright red color, with big fat fonts and excellent icons.

It was designed by Yves Béhar for Puma in 2010, and finally started hitting pretty much everywhere in North America in 2011. Since then, it has won the GOOD DESIGN award, as well as the Core77 design awards.

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Occupy! Cover Design by Kelli Anderson

Dec. 15 / 11

This beautify designed book cover belongs to an equally interesting book. I haven’t read it, so I’ll not say much about it. But I did want to bring to your attention the incredible detail that went in to this design, particularly the subtle imagery of protesters cleverly masked inside of the typography. It’s edgy and smart, and Kelli Anderson deserves a pat on the back.

For more information on the book, be sure to check out the Verso website. It’s also currently on sale for $8 at Amazon.

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2012, The Year Of Tangerine Tango

Dec. 11 / 11

Pantone has released its always interesting color of year. This year it’s a feisty shade of orange (or red?), and they’ve dubbed it “Tangerine Tango.” The Pantone code is 17-1463, but since I live in the web world, I’ve recreated it with this hex code: #e1523d. I also took the liberty of putting together some split-complements (see graphic above). Those hexes are #348ec0 (blue), and #80cb37 (green).

So get trendy, people. Ditch your boring old Bauhaus red, and convert to Tangerine Tango.

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Kirby! (Kirbi! Kirbé!)

Jun. 20 / 11

That’s right. I just made a Tony! Toni! Toné! reference.

There are times (from no fault of my own, mind you), where I come across extremely strange and mystical things. And some times they turn out to be awesomely inspiring. Today contained one of those times.

Thanks to my friend Nate, my eyes befell upon a real gem of unexpected inspiration: Kirby. Yes, Kirby; that weird-ass pink blob of a Nintendo game from the early 90′s. Apparently they have continued the obviously unstoppable legacy of Kirby in the form of a new Wii game, called Epic Yarn. Now the Wii game itself is not what I’m actually talking about. What I am talking about though, is the freakin’ awesome execution of the Kirby characters, as well as the overall good example it sets of how to use layers of texture on the web.

Here are some highlights

While you’re checking out kirbykirbykirby.com to see it’s textured awesomeness, make sure you watch the acid inspired storyline video. You’ll have nightmares of turning into yarn for nights to come.

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The Cassette Tape Insert Card

Apr. 25 / 11

Cassette tape insert cards: We’ve all had them. We’ve also all ignored them. And We’ve also all throw them away, drew on them, put stickers all over them, set them on fire, and got annoyed at them every time they slipped out and wouldn’t go back in correctly unless you used the tape to push it down.

But I’m confident in saying that we haven’t done, is enjoyed them as pretty sweet design pieces with some awesome typography.

Well guess what folks, the time has come. This guy Jubu (mostly because of his awesomeness I assume), released a pretty rad set of 84 scanned cassette tape inserts on flickr.

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You Took My Name

Apr. 22 / 11

You Took My Name

Dorothy is working on a fun project that’s been catching a lot of well deserved web-buzz lately. They call it “stripping famous logos back to their basic graphic form,” I call it a fantastic experiment in brand recognition, and an affirmation of all the work that goes into something that seems so simple in the end: Color, and form.

Check out the rest of the pieces here: http://www.wearedorothy.com/news/you-took-my-name/

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Minimalist Depictions of Music Genres

Jan. 03 / 11

Minimalist Depictions of Music Genres

Edits by Edit put together a pretty awesome set of prints. With the collaboration of 13 different artists they released an amazing set of posters, each using only one element and one typeface to depict a certain genre of music. The result is 13 amazing minimalist depictions of genres. These would go great along side the minimalist music video and movie posters set, and minimalist album covers set.

Seriously though, make sure you look at them all. They’re freakin awesome.

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Over 3000 Vintage Logos

Dec. 12 / 10

3000+ Vintage 1970's Logos

Eric Carl put up the time to scan in a massive collection of vintage logos from the out of print 1970′s book: World of Logotypes.

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Joe Doucet, BMW Brand Book

Dec. 11 / 10

Joe Doucet, BWM Brand BookJoe Doucet was recently contracted to do a brand book for BMW, portraying in a visual way; the philosophy and beliefs of the BMW brand. The result is a pretty amazing oversized landscape aspect book, wrapped in white perforated leather. It’s pretty awesome.

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Minimalist Album Covers

Dec. 03 / 10

I tend to post alot of minimalist stuff. If someone came up to my on the street on asked me what styles are art I was most attracted too, I don’t think my answer would instinctively be “minimalist.” But I’m starting to wonder now.

At any rate. Ty Lettau from Sound of Design made these awesome minimalist album covers, which are truly inspiring, and go well with the minimalist music video and movie posters that Federico Mancosu did a while back.

Be sure to check them all out.

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