Video: Art comes to life

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo.

Fun video by Hold Your Horses. How many artists and pieces of artwork can you name?

Puma: Rethinking the Shoebox

Interesting piece on how Puma found a way to cut down on materials, energy consumption and weight by replacing the shoebox with a bag.

Video: Ken Carbone on Journal-Keeping

Designer Ken Carbone talks about his personal journal-keeping in this video from Fast Company.

Eames Modernist Catalog awaits your lustful eyes

If 90+ pages of colorful, typographic experiments on newsprint delivered directly to your mailbox sounds as thrilling to you as it does to me, make sure you have updated your address information with the fine folks at House Industries. Not on their mailing list? Sign up here.

[For more info on the process to create this catalog, visit House Industries Show and Tell. There's a video of the presses rolling! Fun!!!]

Video: The Navigators

Inspired by vintage matchbox labels, Czech illustrator and designer Pavel Fuksa created 178 matchbox covers for this video for The Navigators “My Place” video.

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©opyright

It's spring and that means copyright infringement time!!!

Here is one article about what happens when one guy doesn't respect a single artist's copyright. (here's the link. the comments are the important part. Start with comment 3 and keep going for a bit.)

And here is what happens when a multi-billion dollar company doesn't respect a bunch of artists' copyrights.

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Show your love for the ampersand by getting either one of these niffy fashion statements: a brooch or cufflinks. Two of the fun products in the Veer store.

Eye Candy: The Heads of State Travel Posters

This past Thursday, I caught a wonderfully entertaining and smart talk by the talented duo that makes up The Heads of State. They showed tons of their work and I feel in love with their Travel Posters series that they did for Real Simple. Lucky for me, I can pick up any of the eight posters for a small price on their website. Now, I just have to decide which ones.

Making It on Broadway

Ever wonder what goes into the creative process behind a Broadway poster? Don't wonder anymore. The New York Times wrote a great piece showing various directions that Spot Co. created for the upcoming production La Cage aux Folles. The firm and the client go through what worked and didn't work for a handful of directions and what they finally went with.