Amazing graffiti rendered as an animated short film.

via signal vs. noise.

… is everything you need, nothing that you don’t. By 23PSI.

Love this san-serif tee from turnnocturnal. Features Helvetica, Meta, Avenir, Frutiger, Officina, Optima, Gotham, Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers, Trade Gothic, Din, Agenda, Interstate, News Gothic, Myriad, Eurostile, Futura, and Gill Sans.

via change the thought.

Ampersand poster by Nick Sherman. From The Ampersand blog.

via hello bauldoff.

An old trailer which I bookmarked sometime last year. NSFW and not in front of the children for that matter.

My submission for Good 50×70 for the Child Mortality brief by UNICEF.

The results of Good 50×70, the social communication poster competition are out. The one above is by Handoko Tjung (indonesia) for the global warming brief. See my submission for child mortality here.

via swissmiss. See all the winners of What is Graphic Design? at veerle’s blog.

President George W. Bush’s razor sharp mind has been the fodder for many jokes. In fact, it has also proven to be a fertile ground of ideas mined by advertising creatives around the world for their work.

via monoscope and creativebits.

This blog was featured on Designers Who Blog. Thanks Cat! Read it here.

Pangea Day on May 10 came and went but the films will leave a lasting impression. Two animated short films left a mark on me. This one is More by Mark Osborne (the other is Papiroflexia). It touches on the human condition on so many levels - from alienation to our longing to find meaning and inspiration in our lives and surroundings. By the way, the great soundtrack is by New Order. Watch the other Pangea Day films here.

Shown on Pangea Day, Papiroflexia is a whimsical tale of a man who changed the world with the art of paper folding. Seemingly rendered with paper cut outs, Baldwin masterfully narrates the state of our existence and our unspoken longing for a better world. Watch another excellent Pangea Day film, More by Mark Osborne here.

Print Liberation is a full-service Philadelphia-based creative visual agency and the collective endeavor of three artists who share a passion for print, design, and culture. Featured above are some of their posters. They are coming out with a book on screen printing which will be available in June. You can pre-order a copy here.

Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s epitaph for himself and for all of us as he would have wanted mankind to be.

If you ever need to have a reference point for paper formats, here it is nicely represented including measurements.

via ffffound.

Here are some tenets for good business and good design leadership from founder and CEO of the Brand Experience Consultancy, Ralph Ardill as posted on Business Week’s Innovation page.

Empathy & The Extra Mile
Falling at the last hurdle is such a common business failure. You just feel like you can’t give any more so you give up, just at the moment you should be sticking to your guns and ensuring that things don’t fall through the gaps. Managing to galvanize yourself and your colleagues to make it to the end of a project with head held high is critical. Inspirational leaders make that easier.

Excite & Evangelize
Keep the why alive. Because it can be easy to forget 6 months in, why you’re doing a project.

Success & Sharing
Because there’s no ‘i’ in “team”. And there’s no ‘i’ in “leader”, either.

Happy & Hungry
Projects have a happiness quotient. Positivity breeds productivity.

Inspiration & Ingenuity
Go and look for inspiration. And know when to say ‘no’, or you don’t know.

No Age, art-punk duo from L.A. Brilliant stuff. Read more about them here.

By Mattias Mackler on Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far.

Poster by TypeNeu.

By Ill Studio.

By The Amazing Shape. Via uppercase.

Few experiences affect us as profoundly as death. Life Before Death - Portraits of the Dying is a bleak but poignant exhibition of people whose lives are coming to an end. The majority of them had their portraits taken as they were spending their last days at hospices in northern Germany. Photography by Walter Schels.

via swissmiss.

NIN is offering its latest album, The Slip, free online. Trent Reznor said: “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years — this one’s on me.” Go to the band’s web site, www.nin.com for the download. Those who want something to hold will have to wait until at least July for the CD and vinyl.

Taken in Ao Nang, Krabi.

Robot made with serif fonts. via kelake and monoscope.

Nadia Plesner is a 26 year old Danish artist who was trying to spread the word on Darfur through her t-shirts which carried the artwork above titled Simple Living. For her trouble, she got a “cease and desist” from LV and subsequently a lawsuit.

Did LV get brand-jacked? If you look closely, it isn’t the LV logo that you see on the bag. Was she trying to pass it off as an LV bag? Hardly, I would say, after all it isn’t bags that she’s selling. In her reply to LV, Nadia said: “the bag in my drawing is inspired by - and refers to - designer bags in general and not a Louis Vuitton bag”.

And this is how Nadia explains the rationale for her Darfur campaign.
“My illustration Simple Living is an idea inspired by the medias constant cover of completely meaningless things.

My thought was: Since doing nothing but wearing designerbags and small ugly dogs appearantly is enough to get you on a magasine cover, maybe it is worth a try for people who actually deserves and needs attention.

When we’re presented with the same images in the media over and over again, we might start to believe that they’re important.

As I was reading the book ”Not on our watch” by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast this summer, I felt horrified by the fact that even with the genocide and other ongoing atrocities in Darfur, Paris Hilton was the one getting all the attention. Is it possible that show business have outruled common sense?

If you can’t beat them, join them. This is why I have chosen to mix the cruel reality with showbiz elements in my drawing.”

My own take is that LV overreacted and may be setting itself up for a lot of bad publicity. It should have let the matter die a natural death or found a way of working with Nadia. Fake LV totes do more (and real) damage to a brand, though I wouldn’t be caught dead with one, real or fake.

via the web strategist.