Tasty, tasty flesh
‘gruesome and delicious’
A hand made from meat. With onions, cheese and ketchup. Served on a bed of mashed potato. Details and step-by-step recipe here.
Found via Twitter.com/Typegirl
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Big Bantjes spider on my desk!
A few years back the incredible Marian Bantjes sent me this wonderful Hallowe’en poster. Earlier the same year, I had put her work in an exhibition.
Marian’s post on heraldry is one of my favs. And check out her 10th Anniversary cover for GQ Italia, ‘10 designers, 10 covers . . . 10 years of men, stories, adventures and style.’
Happy Hallowe’en!
McDonaldland
Stephen Von Worley maps McDonalds locations in the US. Looking at the Dakotas, there’s not as many as one would think. Details here.
Symbiosis: E-Coli font
‘the font changes shape and colors as it breeds and dies’
Jelte van Abbema’s award-winning bacteria font, Symbiosis. Details here.
Found via Twitter.com/rogerioabreu
Oak Café: un álbum de Don Reid
For a few years now, Don Reid’s been photographing the food at The Oak Café. The photos are published annually in The American River Review, the award-winning literary magazine at American River College. I was one of the faculty advisors for the 2008 edition, the first to profile the school’s culinary department.
Here’s his photoset.
Free caps font, it’s Blasphemy!
Just in time for Halloween!
Blasphemy Initials from Delve Fonts is GREAT for titles, drop caps, frightening timid people, crucifictions, things like that. The thorny letters are carefully proportioned and based on classical form.
To snag your own, simply GO HERE and do what you’re told.
Oak Café, Vincent Price and moi
Oak Café interior, art by Craig Smith
One of the reasons I teach at American River College is The Oak Café. Staffed and run by culinary students, the Oak Café is one of the hardest tables to get in Sacramento – with four star ratings [twice from The Sacramento Bee] and mucho local critical acclaim, they don’t skimp on anything. It’s a foodie’s dream tucked away in a corner of a Community College.
Type treatment, set using my Escoffier Capitaux font
vincent
A while back, Café instructor Teresa Urkofsky borrowed my copy of Mary and Vincent Price’s A Treasury of Great Recipes (1965). Known for his horror films, Vincent Price (1911-93) was also one of the pioneers of the gourmet movement. He used his celebrity to promote high class eating worldwide. And this over-the-top cookbook – which features funky recipes from the best restaurants in the world (at the time) – is a testament to his love of good food. [Read more →]
Spoon
This spoon has been sitting in a classroom at the Art Institute. For weeks. Not bothering anyone.
Good thoughts about eating
Michael Pollan’s 20 favorite food rules: interactive feature at the NYT.
‘Documentary-Watcher Man’
Jonathan Keifer is a writer. He once reviewed a design exhibition I was involved in by saying, ‘Roughly a shitload of images . . . Get there.’
‘Documentary-Watcher Man’ (above) is Jonathan’s take on documentary cinema.
Good is obvious
‘Just as Sun Tzu’s Art of War is read as a lesson in business strategy rather than fighting in a miliary sense, or Machiavelli’s The Prince is written about government but used as a guide to management, so this book uses the creative processes of good advertising as a metaphor for business practice.’ -inside cover
In It’s Not How Good You Are . . . UK-based advertising guru Paul Arden (1940-2008) does a great job reframing how one can approach creativity, their career and life – by not playing by the rules and reinventing convention. [Read more →]
GOOD is good. So is Scott and his team.
GOOD is for people who give a damn – read more below.
but first . . .
OPEN studio’s Scott Stowell headed up the original design team for GOOD. And I have to write about Scott because he’s been a major influence on my work. Scott = GOOD influence.
I’ve been a fan of Scott’s work for years, ever since I saw a talk he gave at one of the 1990s ATypI conferences. His views/advice on design and teaching – for me – has been invaluable. [Read more →]
handpicked posts
a piano falls in old manhattan
tetro and typography
it’s typography: film, song and dance
dichotomy
ghosts of gustov klimt
the great times new roman controversy
picking fonts
kapitaal
GoD
defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
why work?
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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