Links: Alien Buildings

• February 21, 2009
  5 Comments // Links

Another week, another batch of links! This one is a big one so strap in and get ready! We’ve got some beautiful and eerily alienesque architecture, some gorgeous business cards, books, books and more books as well as beautifully delicate packaging.

Links: You guessed it, kerned

• February 15, 2009
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Second week in and this stuff is still fun to put together. Today, I present to you, monsters of the typographic kind, the darling Maira Kalman, type from the streets, school-day style type, an RSS feed worth subscribing too and a bad-ass type game. Yup, looks like this is a type heavy links post this week. Enjoy!

Art Director: Milton Glaser

• February 10, 2009
  Nil Comments // Graphic Design

Milton Glaser is a name virtually anyone who has studied graphic design history to any extent knows. The Bob Dylan poster and the I Love NY logo are two works that many people even outside of the field know and have seen time and time again. For several years, between his time as co-founder and president of Push Pin studios, yet before the I Love NY logo, he was art director of New York magazine.

I love magazines. Editorial design is second-to-none for me. It’s a world where things can be tried and if successful, pushed, evolved, grown. If an idea looks good at first but not so good 20,000 copies later then damned be the embarrassments! There’ll be another issue soon enough. Typography is played with, photography and illustration can carry all the weight of a layout and the rules and expectations can be pushed to within an inch of their lives, only to be brought back to something graceful and elegant the next story. Because of this love I have, when I read about Google’s new digitizing of publications from the last century or so, I wet my self.

Well, not really, but you get an idea of the level of excitement I was experiencing.

In the small pile of publications that this new digital archive was building, only a few names aroused a modicum of interest. Except one, one caught my eye for one reason or another: New York. A name I was at best vaguely familiar with. A level of awareness I was more than happy to boost as best as I could for a couple of hours a night for the better part of a week.

Links: YEAH! I CONCUR, SIR!

• February 5, 2009
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With the amount of beautiful things on the internet, it’s hard to not want to show as much of it as you can to your friends. So, my friends, here you are! I’m going to try to make this a weekly post, showing some graphic artist’s, designer’s and blogger’s accomplishments from around the web. I hope you enjoy these beautiful works as much as I do.