Raw Lightscapes from Enrique Pacheco on Vimeo.
visit pacheco’s vimeo account for more stunning films!
creative inspiration
creative inspiration
branding
a really nice rebranding for south lake tahoe, celebrating all the amazing terrain and outdoor sports you can enjoy in the high sierras. see the full preview at underconsideration.com
infographics
an infographic after my own heart: a chart on the bitterness of hops, a main preservative and flavoring agent in beer. i can think of so many people who love to pore [and pour] over this. order yourself the 24 x 36 print!
friday fun
Experience Human Flight from Betty Wants In on Vimeo.
creative inspiration
valentines!!!!
let’s just get this out of the way: designer, letterer & typographer extraordinaire, louise fili, has designed the latest LOVE stamp for the post office, and if you haven’t had a run-in worthy of swearing them off lately [which is unfortunately hard to come by], stock up on these, because they’re AMAZING!!!
neenah paper valentines
…and speaking of the love season, it’s the LAST WEEK to order my valentines benefiting , featured this week on neenah paper’s against the grain blog. it’s time to get serious about supplying yourself with old-school fun and compliment bombs away! pick up your pack before friday, february 10!
heart-related art
when i saw this poster in a selection of playful typography on fudgegraphics.com, i thought of valentines, but the post is full of fantastic digital and illustrated [and digitally-illustrated] typography. but this is easily one of my favorites anyway.
happy valentine’s day!
creative inspiration
anyone from generation x should be intimately familiar with the pbs logo from all the sesame street we watched. just thinking about going through the design process with several somewhat-mundane revisions and client requests puts a humorous spin on it, for designers anyway.
logos
this is a lovely idea for anyone who has the opportunity to do some environmental design for their clients–how about growing a logo with colorful indigenous plants? these succulents would be perfect here in southern california.
branding
admittedly, i have trouble getting excited about healthcare branding, but this redesign of the aetna brand is some really great work by siegel+gale, and it’s one of the few times i absolutely agree with the folks at brand new. see the whole profile at underconsideration.com.
hiring a designer is just one piece of the branding puzzle, but to launch a good brand, the business leaders themselves would do themselves a favor to spend some time brand-thinking. here are the 5 basic building blocks for branding your startup from fastcodesign.com.
a sunny video for a warm LA winter
A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol – HD from Yuki 7 on Vimeo.
thanks, thefoxisblack.com for the link and writeup!
creative inspiration
Micro Macro from Encyclopedia Pictura on Vimeo.
super-cute explanation of the universe done in food! i especially like the polar caps in shredded mozzarella.
branding
a beautiful rebranding of teachers by hyperakt re-imagines the inspiration of education and applies it to just about every civic touchpoint conceivable. great work!
products
i saw this innovative item on 3 blogs in one week, and it first caught my eye for the retro-style packaging. however, i have several friends who have given up on the travel bottle craze and gone luddite, preferring to cart their beverages around in mason jars with canning lids. i think this is great, except for my desire to frequently sip. then i saw this cuppow thing and love that it makes a sippy cup out of jars. now the question is, can i get it in glass instead of any type of plastic [though i see it’s bpa-free and recyclable]. see the writeup and video at fastcodesign.com
creative inspiration
this is a fascinating little ipad app for people with repetitive stress in their hands. i’d love to know how it works, but i have neither the affliction nor an ipad. see the full writeup at fastcodesign.com
branding
i love this branding work for north, a new restaurant in arcadia, arizona, by tunnelbravo, featured on designworklife.com. they’ve combined a rustic bistro / artisan foods feel into a lovely 2-color pop of modernized overprints, and even made a custom typeface for them from a vintage typewriter. see the whole brand showcase on the tunnelbravo site.
echo park
this is super-sweet: there’s an anonymous love letter drop box on sunset blvd right at laveta terrace. write whatever you like, drop it in the box, and it will eventually appear on the echo park love letters blog.
friday fun
DMV: After Dark from machine project on Vimeo.
check out this nice video montage of machine project’s dmv after dark. i was there, but i’m not in the video.
parlato design studio 