Category: design + art + typography

My good buddy and fellow planker Geoffrey Weeks is having a show of some photographs next Thursday night… Geoff has some lovely daily photos up at his site documentone.ca “Just…

I forced myself to paint one water color per day while on vacation in Mexico. The results were at times frustrating and more often than not – the best stuff…

Last night we finally got to go see the Brian Jungen show at the Contemporary. Some truly inspiring pieces – whales made of chairs, the baseball bats with slogans carved…

Nice use of a upright script font… “New lifestyle magazine Blueprint is designed by Debra Bishop in textbook Martha Stewart style — conservative, clean, classic, feminine. The publication logo is…

An awesome set of books to own … Great page layout – great design – and inspiration for years ! “A three-volume set containing the ultimate selection of design classics,…

Very nice idea, although lacking a bit of gracefulness a tree branch contains. “Electrici-Tree is a three-branch daisy-chainable rubber extension lead. Cast from real tree branches. Magnets in the back…

Sad that the cops still want to bust this guy… “A British street artist known as Moose creates graffiti by cleaning dirt from sidewalks and tunnels — sometimes for money…

Something that I’ll return to one day, hopefully along the lines of hand-fired Raku… “Ceramics began for me as a distraction to the tedious aspects of typeface design work. The…

One of the more interesting slideshows from the NYTimes… “In Tokyo, where land can be prohibitively expensive and plots unbelievably small, flexible space and multipurpose rooms are not just design…

Best stencil font I ever did see.. “Pochoir is a sweet stencil antiqua typeface with round and thick serifs. It was inspired by Paris street art on a university trip,…

“Tim Knowles creates drawings independent of his own hand, using elaborate apparatus or time consuming practices. Interested in the process of drawing Knowles invents experimental and playful procedures to introduce…

Lovely energy efficient idea … “The Woodflame uses just a tiny block of wood to power an entire grilling session, using a combustion chamber pumped full of oxygen to burn…

Contemporary art and street culture – Watch the movie online here (warning : 140 meg) – heavily skate influenced … great piece of work.

Brian Jungen at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal — May 27 to September 4, 2006 “This exhibition, the first survey of the work of the young Vancouver artist Brian Jungen,…

USSR posters – a collection of 1,469 Soviet Union propaganda and advertisement posters from 1917 to 1991. USSR posters – a photoset on Flickr