Design Buzz Yo Momma is so lo-res, she can't even save for web. Come on, you know it's true. Now thanks to the kids at 55 Hi's you can print out these memos and share the LOLs.
Music Buzz The folks at ClipArt Covers take requests, but they won't do Sgt. Pepper's. (Via ClipArt Covers)
Culture Buzz Swedish graphic designer Viktor Hugo presents his take on Apple's classic “Think Different” campaign. Though the company retired the phrase in 2002, Hugo thought to himself that “it could be fun to elaborate with the concept and create a set with new ways of thinking.” (via flavorwire.com)
Culture Buzz Don't you wish your grandmother had sat you on her lap as a child and given you some invaluable Internet advice? Thanks to the fantastic project by Spanish copywriter Chacho Puebla, “Grandmother Tips” can now hold your hand through the Web like you always wanted.
Pick which typeface, illustration, logo or website design you like over another in this artsy comparison site.
Culture Buzz Graphic designer Catrina Dulay created these simple illustrations for an ongoing series she calls “In A Perfect World,” which depict common and daily issues. (Via)
Culture Buzz Graphic renderings of four antiquated Hungarian proverbs that even the Hungarians themselves don't know the meaning behind. (Via)
A simplified map of the complex web of characters from HBO's addictive Game of Thrones, most of whom you've probably forgotten the names of already. Hopefully this will be relevant to me someday. After I finish reading the book, obviously.
Culture Buzz These concert posters were designed and screen-printed by one talented guy. Many more available at his site, Plastic Flame Press.
Not only do you get to serve as the logo vector designer, but you also get to advise the mayor, a holiday named after you, possibly a road named as well. Plus fame and fortune, and maybe even learn how to embalm some dead people. (via @im_so_tiny)
Culture Buzz Graphic designers compete to create the most aesthetically traumatizing logos for a fictional company called Excellencico, “a global leader in providing a focused, broad range of services to a world-class, international, region-centric clientele.” Here are some highlights. You can submit your own here. (Via.)
A series of posters, flyers, and invitations to the most mundane “events” of your insipid life. Wow, I want to attend ALL of these parties, especially “Talking Shit” and “Taking Out My Contacts.”
Classic '80s films reduced to symbols and arranged into the form of an eight. There are 22 films featured here ranging from the genres of SciFi, Drama, Comedy and Action. Can you name them all? Design by Timo Meyer.
1970- Gary Anderson was a 23 year old USC Architecture graduate when he decided to try his creative side with the Container Corporation of America's design contest. The design became the universal symbol for recycling.
http://designshack.co.uk/articles/graphics/50-fantastical...
I know everybody and their brother does logo roundups so you're probably sick of them, but I don't believe I've ever done one and there is a particularly impressive brand of logo design that I wanted to point out.
Introducing the video game alphabet, also known as “consolefont”. It is a typeface created by graphic designer Varun Vachhar that creatively uses game consoles as letters. I wonder if this would be legible if written out in a sentence…
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/06/03/showcase-of-we...
It may be small, but Lithuania is the geographic center of Europe, and the meeting of Western and Eastern culture is evident. Lithuania is known worldwide for its love of basketball, but today we’ll acquaint you with its Web design industry. In Web design, Lithuania is still a young country; the Internet boom began only about five years ago, and the country doesn’t have a good Web design school.
Culture Buzz Inspired by the horror film genre, Graphic artist Laz Marquez re-envisioned a number of posters based on Alfred Hitchcock's best known films. Check out the ones based on Stephen King's novels, too. (via The Daily What)
Hey, look at the nice stick figures dancing with each other! Or did you see boobs? I saw boobs. (Via Copyranter.)
Save yourself a bundle on design school and just study this masterpiece for a few hours. Everything you need to know is here. Now go forth and create something beautiful.
A designer's dream college-room-poster! This is not just pretty to look at but also grouped by families and classes of typefaces: san-serif, serif, script, blackletter, glyphic, display, grotesque, realist, didone, garalde, geometric, humanist, slab-serif and mixed.