Outbox
Outbox is an fascinating new service that helps you manage your postal mail like email. Here’s how it works: They pick up your mail from your mailbox three days a week, take it to their secure...
View ArticleFree Flavour
Free Flavour is a nice visual blog focused on new and old food packaging. Via Present and Correct.
View ArticleDada iPhone Poetry
Dada Poetry Project for Today: Compose a message made up only of Emoji. Ask Siri to read it. Repeat as necessary using different messages and voices. Have fun.
View ArticlePierre Bellocq
Looking for something else entirely and somehow ran into learning about the work of Pierre Bellocq, one of the world's premiere equine cartoonists.
View ArticleWhy the School Bus Never Comes in Red or Green
An explanation of how that familiar got to be that way: "Why the School Bus Never Comes in Red or Green."
View ArticleTones For Your Phones
Sick of that peppy marimba ringtone? Hate scrambling for your phone only to realize it's not yours that's ringing? Tones for your phones by Boys. Via LAIY.
View ArticlePrinted Program
If you went to the original London premiere of 2001: A Space Oddyssey in 1968 you would have been handed this printed program. It's historically significant for Kubrick freaks like ourselves and it's a...
View ArticleBrand New: The Build
I normally hold designs very close to my vest. I do not like people looking at what I'm doing while it's in progress. So what I am about to do goes against fifteen years of habit. As I have hinted in...
View ArticleReally Good
"...always wanted to discuss with you the possibility of doing the proverbial 'really good' science-fiction movie." SK to Arthur C. Clarke, at Letters of Note.
View ArticleHome is Where the Holes Is
In April of 2012 it was announced that two Manchester cultural institutions — Cornerhouse, an "international centre for contemporary visual arts and independent film" and the Library Theatre Company,...
View ArticleArt Direction: Be a Sherpa, Not a Shepherd
What is Art Direction?…it is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision. In particular, the art director is in charge of the overall visual appearance and how it communicates...
View ArticleFriday Likes 35
Simplicity is the theme of today's likes.Augusta VenturesNothing too fancy, snazzy, or sassy here. Just a good, old fashioned, smart monogram by Moving Brands for Augusta Ventures, a...
View Article2012 Brand New Awards: 7 Days Left to Enter
The deadline for the 2012 Brand New Awards is coming right up. Next Friday, March 1, 2013. Get on it folks! With the option to enter everything online you don't have to worry about shipping anything to...
View ArticleCommoner Inc.
Commoner, Inc. is a Boston based design studio consisting of Richie Stewart and Brook Towlson. They may be small, but their custom typography and branding have come together to produce multiple...
View ArticleA Bar on North Avenue
Related to the last, a FDL Classic from Ebert. "O'Rourke's was the ultimate singles bar, it was said: You went there with a date, and came home alone." A Bar on North Avenue.
View ArticleStencil-Cutter
"The Book of Delightful and Strange Designs Being One Hundred Facsimile Illustrations of the Art of the Japanese Stencil-Cutter - and that is just the short title."
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