business cards

some various business card designs.

divorce lawyer

a second-hand shop reuses the backs of business cards

acupuncturist

personal trainer


a strength test

camera obscura


a photographer's card makes a gesture towards the camera obscura

transparent, thick


that's a pretty sharp shadow.

dental imprint

pop-up card


a sentimental card, for a hand-made furniture business. seems appropriate.

scratch-off card

logos

i liked seeing these logos get iterated.

brand union logo

patterned

map

saks


logo, patterned

saks

saks rebrand by michael bierut at pentagram.

type animations

type experiments by chris tozer:


"wait, what is typography?" this is cute/handy:


and this one is really powerful. it takes a recording of a speech given by hitler, and conveys the message/commentary in english via animated type. a different conception of subtitles:

hot stuff.

here's some pics of an installation by UVA

UVA interactive art

and some graphics.

on&on


randomly found on flickr. by "in the lab"

blech,

i felt like this today.













I spent the day working on my new portfolio site. it's slow-go, especially since i tried to decrease the cheating factor this time by "coding" in dreamweaver, rather than just mapping buttons onto a big photoshopped layout... but it kept acting up so i gave up. or gave in, however you might want to look at it. it would be nice if i could figure out the best way to preserve flexibility and efficacy in all of this. my perfectionism is coming out everytime i have to move something around or resize an image and that's why this has been taking so long.

but the basic site looks like this so far:
















I kinda stole the concept from a logo i saw. I'm wondering now whether it's too colorful.... whether it will just make all my projects look alternately drab or gaudy. hmm. yeah, and changing the colors now, without css, will result in me needing to do every single page over again. boo.

i miss the subway

nyc subway - 1964

nyc subway - 1972


designed by Massimo Vignelli

ny subway cover - 1972

from design observer:

"In 1968, Unimark International was commissioned to design a sign system for the subways, and out of this chaos came order. Two Unimark designers, Bob Noorda and Massimo Vignelli, developed a signage plan based on a simple principle: deliver the necessary information at the point of decision, never before, never after. [...] Out with the complicated tangle of geographically accurate train routes. No more messy angles. Instead, train lines would run at 45 and 90 angles only. Each line was represented by a color. Each stop represented by a dot. What could be simpler?"

nyc subway - 2005

nyc subway -- 2007

nyc subway - blank template!


this makes me happy. and terrified.

this is for laura

mugs.

pantone-mug

memo mugs

here's a poster by sagmeister, where the image is made with coffee cups (kinda related to mugs, right?) in different "cream gradients"