Category: design + art + typography

We watched “Sketches of Frank Gehry” by Sydney Pollack (DVD rental) the other night, quite an inspiring movie with the sole except of the “gush and awe” campaign unleashed Sydney…

Useful for designers and friends in the clothing industry, the pantone fashion color report fall 2006 .. “Just as day turns to twilight, Fall 2006 colors are a subtle deepening…

I haven’t gone down to see it myself, but Roadsworth’s new piece at Place D’armes metro outside Palais de Congres looks kinda cool. Well conceived idea using a large amount…

A huge congratulations to V and Carole for this. They made the cover of this weeks Hour … V told me about it last weekend – so I’ve been anxiously…

Some nice little tips .. things I read and know but that haven’t come to mind in a while …I’ve been trying to expand my horizon on this, painting a…

Good idea .. and he’s getting some very nice results out of it …. “Here’s the deal: Design a logo = Get a free surfboard. I’m in the process of…

This is something I could see built on the land I grew up on in the Laurentians… It has some nice simple principals, concerning placement within a natural environment… “The…

A company in Cologne, Germany is collecting rolls of vintage wallpaper and selling them, The Vintage collection is impressive… the Neo collection is absolutely amazing. “We are collecting and selling…

This photoset is awesome, Wikipedia says … “While part of Warner, Atari achieved its greatest success, selling millions of 2600s and computers. At its peak, Atari accounted for a third…

I like the Firefox developer tools, but still use Safari as my main browser. This little hack helps in at least one aspect of creating sites … “The Safari Tidy…

Found this guy while reading the excellent DRAWN.ca “The Illustration and Cartooning Blog”. His personal blog has some great sketches and watercolors — especially the header artwork… “Lee Hyoung Chul,…

Still one of my favorite fonts to this day, I remember using it when laying out Laidlaw’s online annual reports back in 1997. I always liked the Old style figures…

Some very nice photos of Japan, as I have a couple friends who will love these. Seeing shots like these, and some of the amazing work being posted to flickr…

Some nice photoshopping… “Not such a long time ago, in a galaxy south-east of Paris, there was a battle between myth and reality. The Empire really had struck back –…

2 decks I’d like to have, “In stores now – The WESC & STEREO Decks… Go and get one of these decks. Less than 1000 avaliable through out the whole…