entries Tagged as [design]
Fashion shift: The social shopping effect
‘Fashion editors and department store buyers have long had the biggest say in what parts of designer collections make it to market. This pattern is changing, however, thanks to a more social web culture and better tools to facilitate online voting, purchasing and even customization.’
The opportunity to be unique is right in front of us – if we really want to take it. Article here.
The ‘print as needed’ model I really like. It’s one of the reasons I have some of my own stuff available at Zazzle and Café Press.
Gucci, Florence
Florence Welch inspires Gucci. Gucci designs for Florence (sketches above) for her summer tour.
Article here.
Florence + The Machine: Bird Song
Simmons, Geffen
‘I imagine we are all, like cassettes, thoughts wrapped up in awkward packaging’
The cassette tape art of Erika Iris Simmons. Above, Israli recording artist Aviv Geffen.
Aviv Geffen: The One
Man caves!
‘I like the warm glow from the perfect level of indirect, low lighting. I want to be surrounded by my favorite things to look at. And I long for seating that you just melt into and disappear in.’
The week is over, head back to the Man Cave.
Slather on some Man Dom and let the night do its thang.
Teddy Pendergrass: Come Go With Me
Caves found via The Selvedge Yard
Vintage Hanes
Unopened stock from a long-ago closed department store.
Shirt and underwear, but no pants.
Who needs pants anyway?
handpicked posts
a piano falls in old manhattan
tetro and typography
it’s typography: film, song and dance
ghosts of gustov klimt
the great times new roman controversy
picking fonts
kapitaal
defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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buy my fonts
go shopping
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Divinely Elegant: The World of Ernst Dryden
Jozsef Pecsi: Photo and Advertising
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art
Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
Gaberbocchus Press: An Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979
Advertising Art in the Art Deco Style
Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture
Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
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