Super stoked on this new tattoo Cris did on my bicep from his newest flash. Not the best photo (my apologies), but a brilliant and conceptual tattoo I really wanted to share. So stoked to have this, and so excited to get more work done by Cris now that we are living in New York… [...]
House Industries celebrates and designs a limited edition serigraph for the 10th Anniversary of Medicom Toy’s iconic Bearbrick. The print will never be printed again, and is an edition of 50. Available on their site for $100. They also created the fifteenth anniversary logo for Medicom and a customized 400% Bearbrick, but not sure where [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in Art objects, Logos, Toys, Typography
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Tagged bearbrick, copper enamel, dunny, gold bearbrick, house industries, kidrobot, limited edition house industries toy, medicom, medicom 15th anniversary, medicom toy, munny, one shot, ten anniversary bearbrick
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February 24, 2012 – 4:02 PM
A series of explorations, episodes & comments on creativity. The movie won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. An abbreviated version of it ran on the first-ever broadcast of CBS’ 60 Minutes, on September 24, 1968. Beautiful! You can buy a remastered copy here. Part One: Part Two:
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in 1960s, Animation, Inspiration, Motion Graphics, Movies, Vintage
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Tagged 60 minutes, cbs, creativity, elaine bass, film titles, mayo simon, milton glasser, saul bass, why man creates
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February 22, 2012 – 12:40 PM
Pinterest is a great tool for curating visual information, empowering people to form valuable mental connections between groups of related, and unrelated images in a central space. What I really find fascinating about Pinterest is the images are already curated and filtered by human beings and friends within your social network, rather than a web [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in Advertising, Brand Content, Cool Web Sites, Data Visualization, How To, Inspiration, Life Hacks, Modern Living, Social Media, Technology, Uncategorized, Viral
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Tagged curate pinterest, curation, finding great pins, finding pins, how to hack pinterest, image search secrets, pinterest, pinterest hack, pinterest hacks, pinterest secrets, pinterest URL source, pinterest.com/source, referral traffic, technique to find great pins
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February 22, 2012 – 11:56 AM
Long out of print “Henri’s Walk to Paris”, illustrated by designer Saul Bass, is republished by Rizzoli. Henri’s Walk to Paris is the story of a young boy who lives in Reboul, France, who dreams of going to Paris. One day, after reading a book about Paris, he decides to pack a lunch and head [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, Animals, Books, Cartoons, Travel, Vintage
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Tagged 60s design, brave daniel, children's book, france, hitchcock, Leonore Klein, milton glasser, only one ant, paris, reboul, rizzoli, saul bass
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February 17, 2012 – 4:23 PM
Lovely collection of vintage Snake logos over at So Much Pile Up. Beautiful stuff, very inspiring and simple marks.
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Animals, Inspiration, Logos, Typography
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Tagged 60s, 70s, B.K.Wiese, Giulio Confalonieri, graphis, José Baqués, Municipio della Citta di Bellinzona, san giorgio, snake logos, Tutta Milano, udo elzi
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February 2, 2012 – 3:51 PM
Very nice, artistic animated gifs across a variety of categories at GIFmovie All created by Belgrade designer Valentin. Great site to waste some time.
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in Animation, Cool Web Sites, Electronic Music, Film, Funny, Stop motion, Surrealism
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Tagged animated gifs, belgrade, gif, gifs, graphics interchange format, how to make a animated gif, jpeg, jpg, photoshop, valentin
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January 30, 2012 – 6:24 PM
This is awesome. A group of guys (Doug Wilson, Brandon Goodwin and Jess Heugel) made a documentary about the photo lettering machine used in the 50s-70s, to be outdated by the advent of desktop publishing and computers. Site here. Premieres in SF Tuesday, February 21, 2012 – 7:00 PM @ Typekit San Francisco: 2601 Mission [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Books, Documentary, Film, Fonts, Low-fi, Technology, Typography
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Tagged brandon goodwin, design, doug wilson, edison, jess heugel, letterpress, lino, linotype, photo lettering, printing, typekit
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January 20, 2012 – 5:15 PM
Some really juicy prints available for $80 from artist Cris Cleen. Get them here. Love the “Talk to Me” design, I think this is a really fantastic piece.
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in Art, Prints, Tattoos
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Tagged beautiful tattoos, cris cleen, cris cleen movie, folk art, idle hand tattoo, saved tattoo, Tattoos, turn of century, victorian
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January 19, 2012 – 6:24 PM
Gestalten TV feature on House Industries with Ken Barber. Die Gestalten Verlag is a publisher of fine art and design books and type faces. House Industries has been producing their premier league retro design and their true love… Fonts! Fonts! Fonts! since 1993. House Industries’ lead letterer Ken Barber recently visited us in Berlin to [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in Documentary, Fonts, Inspiration, Painting, Signage
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Tagged alexander girard, berlin, chalet, die gestalten verlag, eames, gestalten, girard, hand lettering, house, house industries, ken barber, lettering
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January 18, 2012 – 6:20 PM
This font is hot. Lovely retro library / 60s advertising feel with tons of OpenType swashes and ligatures. Check out the type speciman here. I wish the digital download came with that musty old book smell you get turning pages in used book stores or a public library. Bookmania is a revival of Bookman Oldstyle [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in 1960s, 1970s, Advertising, Corporate Identity, Fonts, Inspiration, Must Have, Typography
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Tagged 1960s advertising, bookman, bookmania, itc, mad men, mark simonson, old novel cover fonts, open type fonts, opentype fonts, outdoor fonts, retro font, shel silverstein font, vintage font
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January 18, 2012 – 6:05 PM
Never can get enough of Stephen Powers and his wit / aesthetic style. There’s something so satisfying about having any one of his pieces hanging on a wall at home – from the colors and simplicity of design to the sarcasm. The pieces we have collected over the years truly bring a smile to my [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in Ari's Posts, Art, Art objects, Must Have, Painting, Signage, Street Art, Typography
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Tagged a love letter for you, black book, espo, first and fifteenth, icy signs, litho, murals, philadelphia, stephen powers, steve powers, steven powers, tall hand
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January 12, 2012 – 5:34 PM
Saw this today on Unurth. It’s by a Slovenian artist named Miha Artnak. Really loved the simplicity, color and beauty of this idea.
January 12, 2012 – 5:14 PM
I’ve started a few lists here on the blog, partly just so I can look up things I may forget, partly because it would be cool to do a “best of” for a the categories once there is enough content. I often look up, and see typefaces I like, but sometimes don’t get around to [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in Advertising, Corporate Identity, Fonts, Inspiration, Logos, Must Have, Packaging, Paper Art, Prints, Signage, Signs, Typography
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Tagged alejandro paul, astype ornaments, burgues script, cassia, code pro, dieter hofrichter, fenotype, flourish, font fabric, font shop, gordon black, louis madarasz, mishka, my fonts, studiopos, svetoslav simov, victorian
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January 9, 2012 – 2:13 PM
Great retro media probe featuring Herb Lubalin into the evolution and creative woes of attempting to design a brand identity, in this case for PBS. I love the famous last words in the start of this film, “Designers cherish the time they spend alone, it’s you, your pen and paper. No limits.” Watch this film [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in 1980s, 1990s, Advertising, Animation, Corporate Identity, Documentary, Film, Television, Typography, Vintage
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Tagged avant garde, channel 12, early 80s, her lubalin, logo design, lubalin graph, media probe, pbs logo, public broadcasting system
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January 7, 2012 – 5:03 PM
The classic is to go white when it comes to moulding. Why don’t you try something a little more bold? Go Black!
December 13, 2011 – 6:23 PM
First up, this beautiful Nativity scene by House Industries. A bit pricey at $800 in my opinion for a non-Christian person, but looks oh so sweet. Available on their site or Heath Ceramics (LA or SF). Based on an Alexander Girard wood panel illustration, House Industries created this three dimensional tribute to Girard’s fascination with [...]
By admin
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Also posted in 1960s, 1970s, Books, Crafts, Inspiration, Interior Design, Modern Living, Must Have, Signage, Travel, Typography, Vintage
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Tagged alexandar girard, ammo books, eames, house industries, kiera coffee, mid century modern, nativity scene, nativity set, todd oldham
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November 23, 2011 – 1:27 PM
New limited book of icon designs by San Francisco based designer Susan Kare – the original Apple OS icon / UX designer. She is also recently featured in the latest issue (December 2011) of Wired magazine for the Steve Jobs tribute, as well as this write up of her work, career and use of graph [...]
By Andreas Tagger
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Also posted in 1980s, 1990s, Books, Paper Art, Pixel Art
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Tagged apple bomb, apple icon designer, apple icons, apple pixel icons, apple smiley face, apple watch icon, bomb icon, graph paper, icon design, original apple icons, pixel pushing, ps/2, steve jobs, steve silberman, susan kare
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November 7, 2011 – 11:16 PM
First off, silly ants at burning man posterizing time with a blur. Ultra-comical, terrible house music helps bring all the frenetic energy to life. Next, some extra-terrestrial business finding the horde by pouring concrete inside ant and termite colonies and finding alien corpse fossils. So mental. Is the horde here yet? Thank god GW3 is [...]
By admin
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Also posted in Animation, Dancing, Drama, Electronic Music, Places to Visit, Travel
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Tagged aliens live on earth, ant colony, ant honey, burning man, exhumed ants, Stop motion, sub-terranean, termites, the horde
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I’m here…I swear
Accomplishing my first new years resolution right here…..Hi…I will be posting on my husband’s blog now every now and again. Some of it, I hope, interests you? I don’t know! We will see. Look for more girly persuasions perhaps…a lil less Italo..more interior design, getaways, cat gifs, perhaps some fashion etcetc I’m not a brother [...]