March 2011
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Great typography can exist on the web thanks to Vancouver’s Academy who transformed an interview of Nike’s Tinker Hatfield into a visual masterpiece.
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Eric Heins, a former classmate in Boston turned leather goods craftsman is raising some serious cash for Japan through his company Corter Leather. He is selling custom$20 bracelets with hand painted red buttons with 100% of the profit going directly to Japan. In a handful of hours of posting, Eric has already raised a thousand dollars and said he will continue making bracelets for as many orders...
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Fun, clever and simple work by David Schwen. These effective and (what I plan on being) quick pieces are things I miss from school and hope to accomplish a few of each month. It might not be a project with an amazing concept, but it gets your mind to switch gears from the normal schedule. It’s like driving through the middle-of-no-where Virgina. The sun up at the crack of dawn. ...
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Nope this isn’t someone just placing block of color over a photograph and adjusting the transparency in Photoshop. This is the gorgeous and insane work of Felice Varini. More amazing examples…
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This cookbook found it’s way into my hands and I have to say if you’re going to own one cookbook for the next whatever amount of years it should be this guy. From front to back this cookbook has me drooling with easy appetizers, salads, meat and vegetarian dishes and of course desserts. This book of simple recipes with a short list ingredients making for limited steps, plus the...
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Need some new music? Quit the bitching and check out BandCamp’s list of 453 (and growing) artists playing at this years SXSW with a single from all 453. Go find something new to chew on! Thanks to Alexa Cabellon’s G-Chat away message for this find.
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Magazines have to be very impactful to be noticed on a newsstand, yet some just have the strong readership to rely on. Generally, they have somewhat boring covers with plenty of photoshopping and hideous typography. Cover Junkie steps in as a fast growing collection of gorgeous magazine, newspaper, and now iPad covers like New York Magazine, V Magazine, and Esquire, as well as some I—and...
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I’ve always been a big fan of the X Games (Winter and Summer). I actually went to the first X Games in Newport, Rhode Island with my Dad when it was split between Newport and Providence, Rhode Island. Since then a lot has changed. Big sponsors, big ratings, and now big design. During the few days in Aspen, Target hosts all the athletes in their Cahlet. So they have Senior Art Director...
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Great collection of mixes known designers listen to while they work. Shared on Designers.mx. Names like Mark Weaver, Micah Kandros, and Phil Coffmam. Of course they do their own cover art. Probably the best mix which I’ve listened from start to finish.
