It is Friday and if you want to waste a little time today, head over to Google. Today is the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man and to celebrate Google made their logo a playable version of Pac-Man. It has all the bells and whistles of the original game and it even lets you do 2 player (just click insert coin twice). Pretty awesome.
While in Japan, my husband and I fell in love with the Japanese version of the ad campaign for Clash of the Titans. The campaign had the usual posters from the American campaign, but it also had these totally rad anime posters highlighting the best parts of Clash of the Titans story. We lamented that we didn't get as awesome or imaginative posters in America. Learn more about the posters go here.
How Japan saw Clash of the Titans:
How America saw Clash of the Titans:
IAMPETH (The International Association of Penmen Engrossers Teachers of Penmanship) are hosting an exhibition of The Healey Collection Exhibit Saturday and Sunday, May 29 – 30, 2010 from 9am-9pm at the Hilton at the Kansas City Airport (MCI). Tickets are $15 per person.
Horace G. Healey was penman during America’s Golden Age of Penmanship. In 1909 he became the managing editor of the Penman's Art Journal. In his years with the Journal, he acquired a large collection of pen art. Upon his death, half of his collection was donated to the New York City Public Library and the remainder of the collection remained with the Zaner-Bloser Company where it remained stored until it was acquired by Mike Sull on behalf of IAMPETH. The exhibition will include phenomenal Penman’s Art Journal cover art, engrossing art, flourishing, penmanship, broad-pen as well as drawn alphabets, lessons in business writing, Engrosser’s script, Old English, line art illustration and much more.
Alejandro Paul has just released Brownstone, a new monoweight font family complete with a set of luscious interconnected border options.Decorative yet simple.
Purchase individual weights from Veer or the whole font family from Paul's foundry, Sudtipos.
More images can be seen on Typography Served.
Annika Huett is a Swedish illustrator who creates lovely and quirky illustrations filled with vivid colors and funky hand-draw type. Besides illustrations, she also makes awesome mosaics and embroidery. 
A great treasure trove of beautiful and inspiring Japanese steamship travel posters. Pretty! 
Ever want to know all 1200 of them? Then check out this in-depth, well-thought out and staggeringly huge reference for CS3 shortcuts at indesign1200.
Illustrator, comic artist and book cover artist, Frank Frazetta died today at the age of 82. Through his iconic paperback covers of muscular men and half-naked women, he defined what many of us now think of as fantasy. Frank thanks for the amazing art and giving us a hero like Conan. You will be missed.
My husband and I just returned from a two week trip to Japan and while we were there I absorbed as much "kawaii" that I could possibly stand. Kawaii is Japanese for "cuteness" and it invades all aspects of Japanese life. While we were there, I saw adorable dog-shaped battery chargers, banana-shaped smiley face sponges and cute anime mascots for everything from cellphone offers to subway lines. Everywhere I looked I was surrounded by amazing, cute and awesome kawaii figures. Luckly, I can get my kawaii fix back here by checking out the All Things Kawaii blog. So much cuteness I might burst!
[Color study from Marc Jacobs]
Fellow Hallmarkers, Carrie Kiefer, Megan Biram and Morgan Georgie, have launched their own design blog called Ampersand Design Studio featuring color, interiors, fashion and every other thing that might inspire a designer. They even feature a section on things they love in Kansas City. Flawlessly designed and well researched, this is definitely a blog to add to your RSS.
[Illustration by LULU]
Pretty prints to brighten up any wall or room from children book author and illustrator Taeeun Yoo's esty store. 
Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.
