‘Now that we’ve got you interested in learning CPR and the abdominal thrust, go get properly certified by taking a class through one of the many certifying authorities in your local area’ –Super Sexy CPR
If someone strips down to their underwear in order to Heimlich me, I’m going to feel a tad awkward. Just sayin.
Found via Victoria Arriaga (another former student of mine)
Great post over at McSweeney’s – written by Comic Sans. Enjoy it here.
I actually like Comic Sans. It’s not great, but I love its unintentional subversive nature. It just gets used a whole lot for really stupid stuff. By people who don’t know what they hell they’re doing. But I’d absolutely love one of my fonts to be as notorious.
OEM licensing for Chandler 42 anyone?
Also found by former student, Ai Buenafe
GoD episode one: Ghosts in the Machine
GoD episode two: Designs for Living
‘This five-part series tells the story of design from the Industrial Revolution through 20s modernism, the swinging 60s, the designer 80s and up to the present day. Features interviews with star designers like Philippe Starck and creatives from Apple and Ford; as well as design fans like Stephen Fry.’
Finally in the US we have a peek at the BBC’s brilliant series on design history, The Genius of Design. Posted above are episodes one and two. With logotype set in Museo, of course.
Update: The BBC blocked the Vimeo postings of these episodes – but – I found the bloody things posted on a server in China. Really. Click on the above images/links to jump/watch. And hey at this point, I’m not posting them myself. Just providing links.
Would love to have the entire series on a US-friendly (Region 1) DVD.
Found via (former student) James Saturnio and (other former student) Ai Buenafe
‘Real time: 1 hour 28 minutes, footage was recorded nonstop in one sitting. I was going as fast as I could so there are some imperfections here and there.’
Student Tony Wang’s final project from my experimental typography course at The Art Institute of California Sacramento. Tony spent the past eleven weeks doing a multifaceted study of the work of Hermann Zapf.
It culminated in the above video – vector-based drawings/tracings of Zapfino caps.
Each drawing was hand rendered (no live trace) in Adobe Illustrator. (For my beginning courses, students have to draft letterforms by hand with pencil/compass. Tony’s beautifully realized final is the next logical step in the process.)
‘This typeface, titled ‘Meisky,’ was designed for a San Francisco fashion designer. With slim lines, geometrically balanced proportions and high contrast’ -kb
Fashion typeface designed by (a former student of mine) Kile Brekke. More details here.
‘Armed with blase attitudes and killer looks, Jacquelyn Jablonski and Hannah Holman don black and white ensembles for an editorial in the spring issue of Self Service.’ –Fashion Gone Rogue
Photographed by Ezra Petronio, styled by Suzanne Koller. More here.
‘Some of his work is greatly inspired by the works of Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller and Helmut Newton’ –Marius Troy
The fashion/fetish photography of Bangkok-based Jens Ingvarsson.
Okay, so the type does have some kerning problems.
Misunderstood genius or fool? Or a little bit of both.
I’ve actually been a fan of David Lee Roth since high school. Just deal with it.
With a friend, we used to do DLR music video comic strip parodies in our high school newspaper. We called him David Lee Broth and changed lyrics to be all about food. ‘Just a Buffalo’ instead of ‘Just a Gigolo.’
And you know, I do think Dave’s part genius – with a bit of the foolish side dancing around what works/what’s public opinion/where his next career move will be.
Pictured in this post are highlights from Dave’s sketchbook, which can now be seen at his rather sparse website. The art bounces thru a few genres, as is his thing. [Read more →]
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