creative inspiration
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Augustine Kofie:Echo Park Triangulation:Time Lapse from Augustine Kofie on Vimeo.
design industry
[photo: isaac arthur]
designer isaac arthur brewed his own honey apple mead and designed this lovely label. from designworklife.com.
going to the creative freelancer conference this year? i am, and i’m doing whatever i can to make the most of it in advance! this rundown of product releases will help you shop around at the conference, from the how magazine blog.
ever need a reliable list of universally recognized symbols and signs? the aiga has one for you! from aiga.org: A first set of 34 symbols was published in 1974, and received one of the first Presidential Design Awards; 16 more symbols were added in 1979. These copyright-free symbols have become the standard for off-the-shelf symbols in the catalogues of U.S. sign companies. They are now available on the web for the first time.
typography
did you know that hoefler & frere-jones offers suggestions for type combinations? they do! say you want to use their super-cute slab serif archer in a layout, just hit up the page, scroll to the bottom, and see the h&fj suggests section for suggested font pairings with graphic samples. brilliant!
solar beat bonus!
this lovely infographic music box is in a category of its own. solarbeat is a planetary simulation set to music i found on informationisbeautiful.net. i’ve been letting it drone away all morning [about 5 plutonian years], it’s very comforting.
That video and painting is aweseome. Thanks for posting about informationisbeautiful.net. I’m totally hooked. Such cool stuff on there.
thank you, heidi, your blog is really cool too! i found informationisbeautiful.net recently, they are full of great graphics.
Love the solarbeat. Even the image along is pretty rad, but to see it in full interactive melodic glory is awesome.