20 Tweetable Truths About Magazines

This video was created by the magazine trade organization, Magazine Publishers of America, as an introduction to the Magazine Innovation Summit but the video has made its way to YouTube with Tweet-sized statements about the statistics of magazine readership and its advantages to other media.

Bonus? It's been lovingly set in Gotham all caps.

Its a nicely created flash video and a great reminder that people are still looking for tangible non-Tweet-sized information.

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Congratulations to Jake and his Cut & Paste Victory!

It is a little late, but we want to give a big congratulations to our friend Jake who won the Cut & Paste Global Championships for Motion Graphics! Jake did a guest post for us back in March describing what it was like to win the New York City regional event and now he won the whole enchilada. Check out his winning entry below.

In The Garden of 1001101110 from Jake Guttormsson on Vimeo.

Design Sponge, the Swedish Version

Emmas Designblogg is a contemporary home decor and lifestyle blog from Sweden. Its a different look at a well-worn topic. Yes, there's a little bit of nesting going on there but heck, Swiss Miss is doing it too.

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo

Brilliant opening sequence for the 5th Annual Typophile Film Festival created by Brent Barson and design students and faculty from BYU.Created entirely using traditional filming techniques with the five senses being the theme for the film. Letters were cut from Plexiglass, wood, aluminum, foam, ham, potatoes, jell-o, squash, Kool-Aid, clay and incense cones. Watch the video. Four minutes, very well spent.

None of your business cards

In the tradition of CarTalk's closing credits, Mauseth Design (with the help of Studio on Fire) created a series of "None of your Business" cards. Beautifully letterpress printed, these cards can be handed out to skeevy people you meet at cocktail parties, bars and various AIGA events. Only once they've sobered up a bit will they get that the joke is on them.

The Lettering of Harry Potter

The Harry Potter films are chock-full of beautiful hand lettered calligraphy, from opening sequences to the closing credits. Bob Walker (worked on Sorcerer's Stone) and Julian Walker (worked on the first three films) are actually mentioned in the credits as "lettering artists." Cool!




[via DesignWorkLife]

Eye Candy: I Spy intro

Tonight, my husband and I watched the Mark Twain Prize on PBS where they honored Bill Cosby. They showed the opening to I Spy which starred Mr. Cosby and I loved it and thought I would share it with you all.

Photoshop Lady: Good blog for photoshop effects

Next time you get stuck on how to do some crazy type effect in Photoshop, check out the Photoshop Lady blog. The blog culls the internet for the best and non-cheesy photoshop effect tutorials. It gives you simple instructions and even gives you an idea of how long each effect should take.

The Art of the Well-Designed Form

The German book Formulare Gestalten (Designing forms) is chock full of the art and craft of the well-designed form. Forms are the perfect blending of design and function and Formulare Gestalten provides details about how to create more usable, user-friendly forms with over 60 case studies. A new English edition of the book is available this month (October 2009).

Eye Candy: Andy Awesome

Star Wars simplicity by Andy Awesome.

PS: If you like this art but haven't seen Fanboys yet, get thee to your Netflix queue!

[via Drawn]

Video: Creating Comics

Cartoonist Doug Tennapel discusses digital vs. traditional media along with lots of other issues related to the art and craft of creating comic books.

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Photographer: Pancho Tolchinsky

Some lovely photography from Barcelona artist Pancho Tolchinsky.

Mrs Eaves finally finds her Mr Eaves

Emgre just released two sans serif companion fonts for their popular Mrs Eaves. Please welcome Mr Eaves Sans and Mr Eaves Modern. Hooray! Both of the new fonts where created by Zuzana Licko who based the fonts on the proportions of Mrs Eaves, but took some liberties with the characteristics of the fonts. Licko didn't want to create "a typeface that looked like it simply had its serifs cut off". I think the results are quite fetching.

Duffy says: Stop going to work!

A friendly reminder from Joe Duffy that the key to being creative depends wholeheartedly on our ability to think creatively. Sometimes getting there requires breaking the 9-to-5 daily grind in order to get happy, creative, focused and be more productive. Sometimes, "wasting time" makes us all more productive.

Read more of Joe Duffy's blog on Fast Company.

[Link via Fast Company, shout-out to @NeilPfeiffer]