Handmade shoes by Georges Esquivel
I love a good pair of shoes. And my range varies – on the low end I have my own collection of vintage bowling shoes; and my fav footwear are my yellow first generation Starck Pumas.
SoCal-based Georges Esquivel combines retro styling with handcrafted quality. Read more about how he’s taken a bite out of ‘Europe’s leading luxury brands.’
Found via Cool Hunting
Built in knife rack by mehallo, hacked from an IKEA’s Molger bathroom shelf
I’m an IKEA hack. Because the products don’t always fit the space, don’t always work the right way or can be repurposed for other use. Form follows function – or form changes for better function – as it were.
IKEA is everywhere, almost. They seem to be in specific parts of the US, and then strategically all over the rest of the world. A photographer I once worked with noted that when they come to town, one can see them slowly change the look of a community. My dentist notes that they seem to open next to train tracks. [Read more →]
Award-winning cover design for the 1975 Dodge Dart’s user manual
RIP Cash for Clunkers. The program – which ended today – may have totally changed the look of our roadways.
Art found via Graphis Annual 76|77
Project Runway returns tonight. And note that fashion design is just one industry over from graphic design. What I like most is: students who watch can know what to expect from my critiques and timed exercises. In fact, just a few weeks back I used for class – almost verbatim – a challenge from Runway’s diet doppelganger, Bravo replacement The Fashion Show.
And ever since Runway’s been on the air, I’ve been able to do really tough critiques without too many screamfests resulting (well, mostly). And the peppy dance music then has a reason. But my Tim Gunn impersonation: needs a plenitude of practice.
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With the sign off of traditional US broadcast television back in June, space aliens are going to be missing out on Jay Leno at 10 and more of the Real Lives of Jersey Moms or whatever that show is called.
Found via Strange Maps, via Abstruse Goose
Line art by Steve Masseroni
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Steve Masseroni is an incredible artist I knew in high school. He was dabbling with working for Marvel Comics at the time, but set out in his own direction. In a afternoon critique in 1985, he gave me his favorite brush and a few tips on being an illustrator. [Read more →]
Found via Jason Malmberg
Justin Lovato’s work is a mix of surreal landscapes, feudalism and playful typography (with some great interpretations of Baskerville in several of his pieces). He is the cover story in the July 10th issue of SubMerge and has a show going on right now at the Upper Playground location in Sacramento.
The Art of Justin Lovato
Runs thru September 12th, 2009
at Upper Playground 2524 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95816 [map]
meet the artist
Closing reception is 7 – 11 p.m. on Second Saturday, September 12th, 2009.
For more about Justin, visit his website here.
I was almost a journalist. And love good newspaper design; and a few years back, got to adapt newspaper design to a magazine format. Dream gig for me.
The New York Times Magazine is a visual delight and I’d say sets the standard for what a weekly newspaper magazine can aspire to (Parade, are you listening?). At one of the schools where I teach, the library has a subscription and a nice stack of back issues. They also subscribe to the stylish spin off, T Magazine.
Yesterday, T Magazine posted the best of their 2009 covers on their daily blog. And the day before, they posted the best of 2008.
And their 5th Anniversary issue has just dropped. 5 different covers – by Frank Gehry, Jenny Holzer, Francesco Vezzoli, Jeff Koons and the Starn brothers – plus work by Karl Largerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Stefano Pilati, Alber Elbaz, Miuccia Prada and Nicolas Ghesquière, the latter 5 doing a makeover of actress Carey Mulligan.
Gore Vidal’s style quote, found via vi.sualize.us
I include a discussion about ‘style’ and ‘taste’ as applied to design in my classes. Far as I’m concerned, Gore Vidal always had whole thing nailed.
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