Wednesday
Dec152010

Typodermic Fonts

I'm really diggin' on the typography in the portfolio of Typodermic Fonts. Ray Larabie has been publishing his fonts since 1996 and has personally created over 1100 fonts in over 480 font families. A few of my favorites ...

 Stud

Print F

Polarband


Sarasori

Vactic

 

Wednesday
Nov242010

Communication Arts Design Annual

Our work for Wake Forest Athletics has been selected and included in the coveted 2010 Communication Arts Design Annual.



 

Monday
Sep202010

David A. Smith - Sign Artist

Danny Cooke’s short documentary film on David A. Smith shows the amazing craftsmanship involved in creating ornamental glass signage.

Wednesday
Aug042010

Angry Paul Rand

Paul Rand is alive, disappointed and speaking his mind on twitter.

 

Monday
Aug022010

Blue Note Covers

Vintage Vanguard has an extensive collection of Blue Note covers. Reid Miles, was the brilliance behind a lot of these covers. I had read somewhere he was more interested in classical music and didn’t really enjoy jazz that much. Maybe that outsider perspective is part of what makes all of these work so well.














 

Sunday
Jul182010

Leeds Playbills

The amazing Leeds Playbills website contains nearly 5,000 medium-to-high resolution scans of vibrant playbills dating from the late 1700s up through the 1990s.





 

Sunday
Jul182010

Lettering on Shorpy

The treasure trove of vintage photography featured on Shorpy provides endless samples of commercial sign painting and architectural lettering from the 1850s through the 1950s.















 

Wednesday
Jun302010

Jay B Sauceda

Lovin' Jay B Sauceda's "Sign Painters" series of photographs. Wonderful examples of old weathered, hand-painted signage.

 

Tuesday
Jun292010

Communication Arts

Received great news today. The direct mail piece I recently worked on will be featured in the Exhibit section of the Communication Arts September issue.
 

Thursday
Jun102010

Ralph Lauren Hang Tags

I went to Ralph Lauren recently while doing some clothes shopping. They had a pair of pants that I ended up purchasing mostly because the cool hang tag that came with them. Inspired to find more I did some digital mining and believe to have found gold.