entries Tagged as [photography]

The Traffic Calendar

I don’t buy a calendar anymore.

Because, like clockwork, a super cool one will arrive in the mail; typically a bit after the New Year has arrived.

For the past 15 years, Thomas Krug has been mailing me an incredible calendar. It often arrives in a large box and it always dazzles. Elaborate printing techniques, special inks, die cuts – a mesmerizing trip of photography and design.

Thomas is the owner of the Traffic design agency in Winnenden, Germany. And his firm’s self-designed calendar is one helluva promotional item. [Read more →]

‘Wars not make one great’

Photo found via David Oswald, Gemma O’Brien and fffound

The International Printing Museum: New logo, new site

One of the coolest printing history finds in the Los Angeles area is The International Printing Museum in Carson.

Tucked away in an industrial section and run by the incredible Mark Barbour, the museum hosts an amazing collection of rare equipment, The Book Arts Institute (Hi Rachelle!), The Wayzgoose Gazette, a gallery, library and more.

And now they have a new RSS-friendly blog-based website – sporting a new logotype (above) created by Gina Pirtle Simpson.

Click on any image to visit the museum’s website/jump.

Museum photographs by April Rocha

Money, blood and games

The photography of Tyler Shields.

More green

‘the distilled essence of 47 lbs of cilantro’

Found via FUCK YEAH CILANTRO

Obama in California

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images for Life magazine.

Flags

‘There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum’ -Arthur C. Clarke

Photographs by Burak Arikan. Details here.

Nokta

Video by Istanbul-based motion designer Onur Senturk. Soundtrack by Echolab.

Found via Nickish

Muses

Nine women who changed the world. Article here.

Go Faster

‘In the 70s they called it war paint’ -Sven Voelker

A look at the graphic design of racing cars – an overview of the new book by Sven Voelker, Go Faster. Article and video here.

Famous

Jessica of The Veronicas.


The Veronicas: Leave Me Alone


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