Sewing in the digital age

Came across these tonight, the site is really fantastic and there is something really beautiful about them all. Have a look for yourself http://gingeranyhow.com/textmessages.html

Rex the Dog

A brilliant stop motion music video that also acts as a how to guide/making of. Enjoy.

Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.

Barack is my best bicycle

Firstly I'm sure I've mentioned this again but have a look at this

barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/

Secondly have a look at these incredible photos over here...

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0810/callie-bp.html

A peek

A slightly bigger sneak peek. (basically all the hard, boring stuff is now done)

Crazy type

A bit of a sneak peak at my latest project involving some crazy typography. It's so soul destroying having to justify and then kern a block of text only to have to distort it afterwards, hopefully it'll be worth it at the end though.

Who is Max Kerning

I came upon a rather strange site the other day and thought I'd share it.

Max Kerning (despite the the bad kerning, or keming, in the title) is not a messy or sloppy man, a man who doesn't care about what he sees, some people say he cares too much they say "max you care too much about type" but I say clean type is godly type and anyone who doesn't think so it, how do you say, an idiot.

Max Kerning seems to be a character created for pure enjoyment by some anonymous designer, with no obvious commercial motif. The overall message taken away from the site is that clean type is boring type, sumed up with the phrase "I believe in exploration, especially in a tidy well designed environment" "Clean type is godly type, which is the only type you will find around here."

Anyway see what you think at www.maxkerning.com

Impressive lighting

Found these on the net and thought WOW, so thought I would let others see. Fantastic light drawings made by lapp-pro (sorry the site is in german but there is an english option in the top right corner)

Type oozing with cool

I found this beautiful type on my travels and had to spread the word. Its work by Alex Trochut a freelance designer from Barcelona you can see more of his great work here

Look into the mirror

Wow, some really cool stuff from interactive artist daniel rozin the 'mirror' is made of loads of wooden tiles that make up 'pixels' More of his stuff here

a heart beat away…

McCain is known for his rash decisions. His VP pick is evidence of his “great” decision making. The scary thing to think about is that Governor Palin (VP pick and pictured above) is a heart attack away from being the President of the United States.

[From a heart beat away…]

Is this the next Vice President of america, God I hope not.

Pop up Type

WOW, I'm not really sure who made it, but the original post if from here

Bring back fur

A really cool look into replicating the quality's of fur in hightech means the blub goes as follows:

"The way this started was through the process of imagining fantasy animals; animals that could be genetically manipulated, part robot, part organic, how they would move in their environment and what they felt like to touch. Bart then took his (imagined) gun and "hunted" them, looking for their extra ordinary, high tech furs. He thought about tactile qualities like reflection, the way the hair grows and three dimensionality and took these characteristics, magnified them, manipulated and exaggerated them"

If you want to see some more of his work, or experiments he's been doing with Lucy McRae click here http://www.lucyandbart.blogspot.com/

Enjoy

Birthday Card fun

While making a birthday card for a friend I got a chance to play about with constructing some 3D type, or more type applied to a 3D object, and now I'm kind of hooked. I'm really enjoying experimenting with how type looks when viewed from various angles and while wrapped around shapes. I think I might even try to develop a typeface using individual letters applied to these pyramids (see the far bottom picture for my attempt so far) So I just thought that I would share this with the world and see what people think. Feel free to email me.

The Met's new ride

The Metropolitan police have done it again.

First scoda's now mopeds. I kid you not this is an actual police moped it was parked in Peckham with the policeman standing just round the corner from it.

It least its saving fuel I guess. But next time you think about breaking the law remember you could be getting chased (well followed slowly) by one of these.

Type for Thought

Type for thought.

Point Of View

mmmm tasty type

Let me write

A really fascinating look at well know typographers handwriting here

This is Eric Spiekermann's

justluke

Well my portfolio site is all up and running now. Head over and have a look www.justluke.co.uk and feel free to email with comments, I'd love to know what people think of it.

Take-aways

Ok so the idea is simple a band plays a song in a place that they wouldn't normally play a song. Sounds pretty average but the results really are fantastic.

They've had everything from 'Arcade Fire' playing in an elevator and the middle of a concert crowd, 'The Spinto Band' playing while having a drink in a restaurant and 'The Kooks' just walking into a school while playing and then walking out again. Their all a pleasure to watch and make for really great viewing.

Have a look for yourself here at 'The Take-Away Shows'

#35.1 - Cold war kids - St John

by lablogotheque

My 2 cents

An interesting piece of collaboration with the ten thousand cents project the image is made of ten thousand individual anonymous drawings, each being paid 1 cent for their contribution making a $100 dollar artwork. Have a look at the site for an interactive drawing, Enjoy

Advertising 2.0

Ebay gives people a chance to buy a tv spot for their product and in turn gets 10 original adverts and a ton of press coverage. Clever ebay.

Reprints

To celebrate Esquire magazine's 75th birthday, they asked some of the worlds best and most influential fashion designers to recreate some of esquires most iconic front covers, and the results are brilliant.

Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana photo by julian broad based on Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali photo

by Carl Fischer (august 1966 cover)

Karl Lagerfeld photo by Karl Lagerfeld based on Richard Nixon and cultural icons photo by George Lois and Carl Fischer

(june 1969 cover)

sir paul smith photo by nadav kander based on Andy Warhol photo by Carl Fischer (may 1969 cover)

Vivienne Westwood photo by Jurgen Teller based on army portrait of George Lois (december 1962 cover)

Giorgio Armani photo by Alice Hawkins based on Marcello Mastroianni photo by Timothy Galfas (february 1965 cover)

Ohn Galliano photo by Jean-Baptiste Mondino based on Muhammad Ali photo by Carl Fischer (april 1968 cover)

Donatella Versace photo by lorenzo Agius based on Roy Cohn photo by Carl Fischer (february 1968 cover)

Christopher Bailey photo by Bryan Adams based on model and pig photo by Carl Fischer (september 1969 cover)

Miuccia prada photo by Ilan Rubin and 2x4 based on esky cover by Henry Wolf and Dan Wynn (march 1955 cover)

Alber Elbaz (self-portrait) and Luscus Ossendrijver of Lanvin photo by Desmond Muckian based on models

photographed by Carl Fischer (march 1968 cover)

Tommy Hilfiger photo by Douglas Friedman based on Dustin Hoffman photo by Carl Fischer (july 1970 cover)