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¶ This is really cute: Illustrator Christoph Niemann portrays his boys’ love for the NYC subway system. As a kid, I don’t recall having an obsession of the sort. However, I do have grownup friends who do tend to fo this naturally: absorb, study and know their commuting in great detail. (via kottke)
¶ New Superpowers: “A set of flags that express more accurately the natures of the world’s up-and-coming superpowers: Russia’s stranglehold on oil and gas lines; China’s peerless manufacturing ability; Israel’s defense capabilities; and Japan’s ever-expanding workforce.”
¶ Vanou sent me a link to this good packaging design blog aptly named The Die-Line. It’s either for inspiration or to get grossed out of the quantity of excessive packaging a lot of products are wrapped in. (Merci Vanou)
¶ Pour ceux qui ont apprécié l’incroyable vidéo d’animation en graffiti pourraient être également intéressés par les travaux du Graffiti Research Lab . À l’aide de leur LASER Tag, ils peuvent créer des tags sur les gratte-ciels de la même façon qu’ils créeraient un graffiti. Ce groupe d’artistes urbains furent à l’honneur lors du Festival Microwave de Honk Kong de 2007
¶ Louis-Pierre, je te la dédie celle là: Ill Studio . Mash-up de typos, d’illustrations, de photographie. Et 100 pts de plus pour employer le terme groupuscule dans leur définition de soi.
¶ Pour toi James, Joanie: Australian illustrator Eamo Donnelly‘s impressive portfolio. “Influenced in technique byamerican underground comics of the 60s and japanese manga, Eamo uses subject matter that is distinctively Australian provoking a nostalgic feeling of the land down under.”
¶ The analog showreel show. On aimes-tu donc ça l’ironie de l’analogue. Checkerboard swipe est mon p’tit favori.
¶ Jonathan Gray designs beautiful book covers. Ce genre de travail illustratif et typographique n’est pas facile, surtout en ce qui concerne les séries. Et je le rementionne parce qu’on a tendence à l’oublier: Covers couvre les (belles et bien conçues) couvertures de livres. Et c’est habituellement rempli de bons échanges acérés dans les commentaires.
¶ Hubert de Lartigue est un artiste qui pique notre curiosité. Aussi jolie et attrayante qu’elles puissent paraitre, les femmes qu’il nous présente ne sont qu’en réalité que des peintures. En plus, le peintre nous montre étape par étape comment il réalise ses toiles.
¶ Oh! Une collection de séquences de titres de film en format quicktime. Quelques séries télévisées également. YouTube also has mucho mucho for your typographic viewing pleasure.
¶ Merde, j’ai oublié de mentionner en début de semaine qu’il y a vernissage ce soir au Centre de Design de l’UQÀM: Yokoo Tadanori, affichiste. 70 affiches des années 60 à aujourd’hui de l’affichiste japonais: “créateur baroque inspiré du graphisme psychédélique, du surréalisme et du photomontage.” Un genre de Halasa japonais? Peut-être. Peu importe, j’y serai.
¶ Bag maker Crumpler bets on weirdest, quirkiness and humour to sell bags, somehow dosing it right to get associated with authenticity and good design. They are so creative, they even come up with their own ABC.
¶ Looking at different camouflage uniforms of the world, you can notice the local differences in natural surroundings translated in the camo patterns. My favorites are the few anti-camo: Malaysian Fire & Rescue Department (Bomba) with its sense of urgency, and the panda inspired style of the Korean military training gear worn in the 80s.
¶ Hippopocampe loves remixes, especially the ones involving old movies and famous designers: Saul Bass vs Star Wars.
¶ High fives & good times: She is Susanita and she beautifully combines photography and illustration, often fashion related.
¶ When I’ll get my super slick fixie, I’ll be pimping it with rust. Et comme RKG y dit, Dominic Wilcox a un portfolio plein de projets intéressants.
¶ Data-visualization lovers: Looking at the bible as a very rich gathering of cross-references, names and places and visually displaying all these connections. I can not think of any other book that would display such a list of different people and places that cross-reference through its entire scope.
¶ The 25 Best Rock Posters of All Time. 1959-2007, very rock’n‘roll, with a few odd choices (like the fugly Radiohead one).
¶ 2007 CAts LEt Nothing DArken their Roar and other lovely print stuff by Noa Bembibre.
¶ Si des extraterrestres venaient sur terre détruire l’humanité, mais le meilleur typographe/illustrateur serait épargné (y’a toujours une twist weird), Alex Trochut se sentirait soudainement étrangement seul.
¶ Infodesign Challenge: Come up with a better infograph to fit a year comfortably within a business card. My favorite is the #6 concept, where the month aligns where it starts, keeping the reading clear and easy. I hate calendar redesigns that actually make it actually harder to figure out what day it is. (via kottke)
¶ Shit, on est seulement mi-novembre et c’est déjà le temps des listes. Favorite book covers of 2007 selon le Book Design Review website. Et pour ceux et celles intéressé(e)s à flaner et baver sur des belles couvertures de livres, Covers est l’Incontournable-avec-un-I-majuscule du sujet.
¶ Things to look at. Type & photography & art & design &… Right up your alley, I know it. Do check out the archives. (Merci Francis)
¶ VectorMagic. Prennez une image, une photo, un truc en pixel, VectoMagic vous le transforme en vecteur sans roncher et ce sans les effets de filtres photoshop/livetrace illustrator un peu cheap.
¶ Make My Logo Bigger cream. Come with a bottle of Whitespace Eliminator!
¶ Energie in Motion : c’est un rafinement de ce qu’ Eric faisait avant que ce soit cool de le faire (merci John).
¶ For those who think paint naming sounds like an easy job, try this: The paint game. You have the name, now match the color. Fairly hard.
¶ If I were to get tattooed, I would go to Lifeunderzen Private Studio in Tokyo. Very personal in their approach. You know that if the studio’s motto is “The tattoo is never more important than the person wearing it”, you’re in good hands.
¶ Youtube: Demo of single player puzzle game Portal released yesterday. They need a multiplayer first-person shooter version.
¶ Paper folding, this one is for you Mister Evans: Shitdisco’s OK video. The ending is certainly the best. Something not unlike Donnie Darko’s visions.
¶ A Soviet Poster a Day : analysis and historical context for CCCP poster propaganda.
¶ Qussé tu fais quand tu viens de passer la dernière soirée à regarder des robots danser et des treillis de néon briller? Ben tu vas voir Data Visualization: Modern Approaches. Comme ça on reste dans son élément. (Merci John).
¶ Typographiquement vôtre: Typolution d’Olivier Beaudoin (via Ironica) and if you like graphic design check out Krghettojuice and Ian Brown’s Work.
¶ Gorgeous work from Jonas Torvestig’s graphic design portfolio. Design is to the Swedish what Tim Hortons is to Canadians.
¶ If you ever need clear, emergency graphic instructions as to ditch the rigidness of the corporate office life and live like our indigenous ancestors of yesteryears, well, here they are.
¶ Weather icons from various press websites. Me loves infographics. The Weather Network and the NYT win in my book for clarity, Le Monde is thinks artistic abstraction is a plus, and This is Jersey has these tableaux with silly slipping little people.
¶ Francis va voir ça (graphic design of the day): Round with a great flash interface and german synthetic illustrator Thomas Traum.
¶ Ironic Sans does it again: An analysis of terrorist organization logos. Stars and guns seem to be the common practice.
¶ Ça à été linké à plusieurs endroits la semaine dernière sur le web, mais ça mérite tout de même une archive chez hippopocampe: All change: How the age of the static brand is coming to an end.
¶ 2007 Key Art Awards: Movie Posters. Same old, same old. Movie productions companies have this nasty habit of simply pleasing the masses. The most interesting ones are certainly the teaser posters where they can tolerate (and need) a certain edgyness (to intrigue).
¶ Field Music – In Context : Vidéomusique d’une illustration composée d’une ligne continue.
¶ It’s Monday. Wake up, brush your teeth cause you got a bad case of Morning Breath. Did you do your Homework like I asked you? Ok now go outside and seiz the day.
¶ Like every year since 2003, Logolounge, the largest online database (50,000 logos and counting), indentifies the 2007 logo design trends. I love to guess the source of the trend. Culturally speaking, where are these ideas and visual cues coming from? But remember kids: “Our observations are just that–observations. They are not recommendations.”
¶ Le nouveau logo des olympiques de 2012 à Londres fait autant de bruit sur le ouèbe et la scène international que le code de conduite de Hérouxville. J’suis étonné de voir autant de gens, d’habitude si fervants d’innovation et de création inédites, se révolter contre le nouvel emblème. Il y a une pétition qui circule avec déjà 25,000 noms. Hippopocampe, par sa part, est très content de cette approche claire, fraîche et novative; l’essence du brand n’a pas été dilué, ramolli et perdu à travers des milliers de réunions et commités (comme celui ci par exemple) et se distingue clairement de tous les autres logos des jeux olympique. Seb Coe, chairman of the London 2012 organising committee: “It’s not a logo, it’s a brand that will take us forward for the next five years.” A great rant in favor of the logo: 10 good reasons why the Coudal Partners like it.
¶ London, How do I Hate Thee? Let me Count the Ways, 1, 2… 2012. Discussion of the new sexy-ugly logo for the London 2012 olympics, a logo and identity that that people will come to love or love to hate. I like it though. It’s fresh and quite visually stimulating for an event of this scope in this new century. Watch the cool brand introduction video here.
¶ HZL by Henzel fancy schmancy art couture rugs. Made in 100% pure New Zealand Wool (ooou, sounds exotic) and so nice you would rather put them on your wall instead of stepping on them.
¶ Flags by colors. “Each sector of these piecharts is proportional to the area of the colour on the respective flag.” L’amalgamme prortionnel de toutes les couleurs c’est de loin le graphique le plus intéressant: c’est une abstraction d’un drapeau du monde qui n’existe pas.
¶ Graphic design portfolios worth your procrastination internet time: Steak Mtn & Tauba Auerbach.
¶ On commence le pimpage de la semaine avec Christophe Huet, french mcmaster de la retouche numérique. Quelques images ont même, à la dvd-extras, un aperçu du making of.
¶ Milwaukee’s official silscreeners The Little Friends of Printmaking have a blog where they post very large images of the posters they print. A lot of these images would make awesome tshirts (like that We’re Rollin, They’re Hating skull).
¶ World fatness explained with clear little fat men: population over 15 with a body mass index over 30. (Via kottke)
¶ There’s an interesting discussion over at Blork’s on the “open door” and “close door” elevator button icons and the resulting confusion of which to press. I never mix the icons up per se, but like one commenter said, htere position isn’t always the same (right/left) so have have to take the the time to look and read and press. Couldn’t we simply just have a big “open door” button?
¶ No, There Are Not Enough Typefaces Already. Cyrus Highsmith brilliantly explains why today, with so many typefaces already available (digital tools have recently helped a lot), we still are in need on new ones. He pretty much explains what he does for a living (as a type designer) and why it matters. And I find that type as a subject in this essay can easily be replaced by architecture, design, music or film. This is not egocentric work.
¶ You Fuck. We Don’t. If your face artistic directors show off their graphic design work. Kids, don’t copy, get your own ideas.
¶ Ok, how did these go again? I remember we had the Top 10 car colors of 2006, a few nice graphic design links and then what? I can’t even remember.
¶ New (to me anyways) graphic design blog I stumbled upon: Print Fetish. Mostly covers magazines.
¶ Votre dose quotidienne de design graphique: les illustrations et le self-made de The Culture Front et les installations de typographie & design de l’environnement de Why Not Associates.
¶ World’s best designed newspapers: 28th Edition. All europeen (Estonia, Danemark, Spain & Germany), thought out insertion of illustrations is important and you can always feel that grid.
¶ Task-Focused graphic design portfolio. Tight (like a tiger) work and numerous gorgeous examples of edited and or self-made typography. And to-the-point portfolios like this (no web fluff) are always very welcome.
¶ Edlo Kawa photography. First a retoucher, then a photographer, he call this new line of work photocrafting. The distinction between the two has all but disappeared: they control the final image form start to finish, and it shows.
¶ I just finished Chris Ware’s excellent Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth. Love the style, the details, the gloomy expressions. Coincidently, Francis sent this in: Chris Ware does animation as well! And this short animated story makes me think that today people would do the same thing with cellphone cameras.
¶ Mademoiselle Urbaine, tu seras intéressée (et peut-être un tantinet déçue) d’apprendre que la majorité des célibataires mâles sont concentrés dans la partie ouest du pays et les demoiselles célibataires comme toi, dans l’est. Maintenant, ces données sont celles de nos voisins du Sud et ne reflètent peut-être pas exactement la repartition canadienne, mais bon, au moins tu sais que pour te trouver un beau mexicanos illégal et célibataire, c’est à L.A. qu’il faut aller.
¶ The Thumbprint Chart of ABC’s. Doesn’t get any cuter than this. I remember quite vividly making thumb-people prints in kindergarden. They make very good caracters from the start. You can’t go wrong with thumb-people.
¶ Portfolio de Julien Vallée, bachelier de l’UQÀM en design graphique. Il se spécialise surtout dans la composition animée, chose qu’il fait très très bien. (merci Rick G.)
¶ Logo Design History: famous brand glossary with explanation of the brand’s history (and sometimes older logos) which certainly brings dimension and understanding to the visual identities. Not everyone is there though.
¶ “Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.” Ça c’est de la communication graphique à son meilleur. En un coup d’oeil, je peux comprendre les proportions globales, les rapports entre les pays, l’impact de la position géographique… des choses que des chiffres expliquent mais communiquent mal.
¶ C’est drôle parce que je regardais en fait des tatouages ce weekend sur flickr, contemplant les motifs et compositions, regardant si il y avait quelque chose qui m’inspirait, mais tout me lassait vraiment. Mais vraiment. Et je viens de tomber la dessus: “Reset Design Tattoo is a special tattoo collection made [...] in order to propose a new functional and aesthetic was of thinking this permanant body sign.” J’aime les constellations et la bague de mariage. J’ai une amie (et lectrice) qui s’est fait tatouée une barre verticale, bien droite, noire, 20 cm par 1cm en arrière du molet. Elle ne me l’a jamais expliqué, mais c’est déjà esthétiquement beaucoup plus engageant qu’un papillon.
¶ Travis Stearns’ I Am Mint Condition graphic design portfolio. Check out his flickr feed as well.
¶ Kottke put up a nice little article about maps drawn from memory. He links a few good examples.
¶ Flickr: Hotel Labels. Over 700 of them from all over the world.
¶ Pingmag is the bomb: Japanese Snack Characters. I like the pink Poky bunny, the crying one is even better.