Lost Season 6

Mattson Creative designed several posters to commemorate the start of Lost Season 6. See all the designs here. Wow!

Eye-Candy: Burlesque of North America

Poster loveliness from a design/art/illustrator/visual-jack-of-all-trades collective called Burlesque of North America out of Minneapolis.

Square: Now, You Can Accept Credit Cards

I was perusing Poppytalk today and stumbled across a video post about a device called Square that allows someone to accept credit cards using a cell phone as a card reader. Developed by the co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Square is an ambitious project to make plastic transactions easier for everyone. Finally, a way to accept credit cards at a craft show!

More info here.

2010 Winter Olympics Animation for BBC

Illustrator Jon Klassen worked with director Marc Craste of Studio AKA to create this amazing animation for the 2010 Winter Olympics for BBC.

Check out this awesome animation from the 2008 Olympics created by Jamie Hewlett (of Tank Girl and Gorillaz fame) and Damon Albarn.

[Found via Drawn]

Conan O'Brien – The Smartest Kid on Earth

[Image via USA Today]

Last week, I watched a bunch of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien to stock up on my fill of Mr. O'Brien before he left. And I was pleasantly surprised on Wednesday night to see a bumper that looked strangely like a Chris Ware comic. My husband and I stopped the DVR and stared at it for a while trying to figure out if Ware had really made it or if it was a really good homage. We didn't have to wonder long. The USA Today confirmed on Thursday that it was just a homage.

To see more of Conan's Tonight Show bumpers, check out this treasure trove on flickr. Conan, we'll miss you!

Get it together with Dropbox

As a designer, you probably work on more than one computer: one at work, one at home, a desktop, a laptop, iphone, etc. So how can you get all those files you use all the time somewhere that's easily accessible? Sure, we all tried dotMac and discovered how painfully slow it is. There's files emailed back and forth, flash drives and (gasp!) burning data to CDs or DVDs to access it on the go. Is there anything better? Yes, Dropbox.

Dropbox provides up to 3GB of free server space accessible with any web browser, a Mac-based desktop app and an iPhone application. Now, those files you were working on at home last night have a place to live where you can access them at work. You can cooperatively work on projects, share finished files with clients, store frequently used files and photos... pretty much everything you can think of and its all in a super easy-to-use interface.

You can upgrade to a pro account to access even more server space.

If your plan for 2010 was to get more organized, Dropbox is definitely a step in the right direction.

2010 Font Trends

Font Shop pulled together a list of Type Trends predictions for 2010. The list included the two beauties shown here as well as several other faces that may be making frequent appearances in the coming year. Mmmmm, new type!



Fonts featured here are: Tempera Rose and Tempera Biblio and PTL Superla

KC AIGA Turns 20

Next Saturday, January 30, 2010 from 7pm - 10pm, the Kansas City chapter of the AIGA will celebrate its 20th year. The event will include a multimedia presentation, food, booze and music. Register to the attend the event here.

NYC Event: 20/10 Vision by gallery hanahou

The 20/10 Vision show at the gallery hanahou gathers together new, inspiring artwork from 40 various NYC artists exhibiting what their positive visions will be for the upcoming decade. The opening will be this Thursday, January 21st from 7-9pm and it will run through February 19th. For the opening, a bunch of artists will be on-hand creating an awesome collaborative live drawing which will later be auctioned off.

Twenty percent of all the proceeds from the sale of the artwork and 100% of the proceeds of the sale of the collaborative mural will be donated toward Haitian disaster relief. RSVP at info@galleryhanahou.com.

Do I see PMS 202 Red on your feet?

SeeVees and Pantone started a collaboration last spring to bring Pantone to your feet. Check out the new batch of Pantone colored shoes in their fall collection. Pretty rad.

NYC Show: Arbus and Eggleston

[An empty movie theater, N.Y.C. 1971, by Diane Arbus. © 2003, The Estate of Diane Arbus]

The Cheim & Read Gallery here in NYC has two not-to-miss show going on through February 13. “In the Absence of Others” shows off Diane Arbus's rarely seen work of desolate interiors – a must-see for any Arbus fan. The other show, “21st Century”, displays the latest William Eggleston prints which are beautiful prints full of color and calmness. All the work looks so amazing that I can't decide which show will be my favorite.


[via “Untitled (Rolls of Printed Fabric, Paris),” 2006, by William Eggleston.]

[via T Magazine]

Papyrus Thanks James Cameron

Pr*tty Sh*tty blog posted hilarious gushing thank you letter from the font Papyrus to James Cameron for "legitimized it's work". Read it and laugh today.

Cherry Picked iPhone Apps

[Clockwise from top left: FlipTime 2.0, TiltShiftGenerator, Bloom , Lego Photo, Kern, and CameraBag.]

When designers curate iPhone apps, app.itize.us is what you get. This is a collection of esoteric, beautifully designed and executed iPhone apps. Do you need them all? Probably not, but app.itize.us share the best of the best in terms of interface, design and aesthetics.

Business Penmanship

Business Penmanship is just another in a long list of reasons why Alejandro Paul makes me weep for joy. This specimen is retro and modern all at the same time. The letterforms are exquisite. Go, yummy fonts, go!

See the full specimen on Behance and buy the full font family at Veer.

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Beautifully animated but a little creepy -- Alma, written and directed by Rodrigo Baas.

Masters Workshop in Italy

This summer the School of Visual Arts is offering a two week seminar studying design and typography in Venice and Rome – the birthplace Western typography. Students will study typography and design history and put into practice what they learn, observe and encounter by drawing type, working with letterpress type and collaborating with fellow designers and teachers on contemporary design projects.