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Escif’s recent work in the streets of his native Valencia, Spain. To see more of his work click here.
No comments. Posted by adria in art, street on 26 March 2009.
I don’t think I can contain my excitement for the upcoming release of release of Maurice Sendak’s classic “Where the Wild Things Are”; Spike Jonze is directing. I used to read this book ALL the time as a kid and am quite excited to see how it translates to the big screen. Check out the trailer.
2 comments. Posted by tanner in motion, movie on 26 March 2009.
Fill/Stroke has a slightly different audience than some other places I’ve been writing about this lately, so I think it’s best to address this article in acknowledgment of that.
The three of us here are all from different parts of the country/world. I like to say I’m from Philly, even though I did a fair amount of growing up near LA. Adria is from Mexico. Tanner is from the midwest.
This, we think, makes us uniquely awesome as a team: tons of viewpoints, tons of angles to come at. However, there is one thing we can all agree on since we’ve been transplanted to the desert city of Phoenix, AZ:
This place is set to take off and be HUGE.
As far as design is concerned, you always hear about New York and LA and Austin and Chicago and Boston any other number of cities before you get down to Phoenix. Print and Communication Arts annuals always throw us in with Albuquerque and tag on the generic “Southwest” category.
Those of us in Phoenix know that’s complete shit though. Phoenix, for all its invisibility to other parts of the world, is about as great an environment for design as you can find in the world. Tons of people coming in from other parts of the country, ready to be part of this fast growing town. Different styles, ideas and ambitions, but all here, all interested and ready for this place to let itself be heard.
So, with that idea in mind, I wrote a letter to Phoenix creatives. Letting them know I was going to start something in motion that will be a way for PHX to announce its intentions to kick ass. There are great organizations here and they need more press, more ways to advertise themselves both to Phoenix and its surrounding suburbs and then eventually to the world. We’re a slightly disconnected set of designers right now, with a chance to join together and seriously mess your shit up.
Phoenix is full of interested, ambitious people ready to show off. Phoenix Design Week is going to let them do that, and its going to be huge.
Phoenix is greater than New York
Phoenix is greater than LA, Austin, Anywhere
Phoenix is greater than you know yet.
You’ll find out though, don’t worry.
An open letter to the Phoenix design community
1 comment. Posted by md in communication, featured, news, phxdw on 25 March 2009.
In case you haven’t seen this lovely Periodic Table of Typefaces, see/read more about it here.
No comments. Posted by adria in typography on 24 March 2009.
Awesome work by Merijn Hos, check it out.
via Booooooom
No comments. Posted by adria in illustration on 24 March 2009.
Strathmore Paper brand refresh
Marian Bantjes and Pentagram joined forces to refresh the Strathmore Paper brand.
Asked to refresh the Strathmore Paper brand presentation for our longtime client Mohawk Fine Papers, Pentagram asked the designer Marian Bantjes to reinterpret the famous Strathmore thistle. This mark was then used to create a pattern for new packaging of Strathmore Paper reams. The goal was to project a stronger signature presence for the brand in business-to-business and direct-to-consumer retail settings.
No comments. Posted by tanner in packaging on 18 March 2009.
The folks over at Idée Labs present the Multicolr Search Lab, a web-based search engine that crawls through over 10 million creative-commons licensed images, based on colors you select.
We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour.
I’m pretty excited they’re only applying this technology to creative-commons images. I think this is a fantastic tool.
No comments. Posted by tanner in color, interwebs, photography on 17 March 2009.
Flickermood 2.0, Sebastian Lange
(Via Swiss Legacy)
No comments. Posted by tanner in motion, music, typography on 16 March 2009.
Artificial Owl is “a site dedicated to provide on a daily basis a selection of the most fascinating abandoned man-made creations.”
No comments. Posted by tanner in architecture, death, photography on 14 March 2009.
New Eric the Dog prints at POW
I’m more or less in love with ericailcane. Via POW:
These are new from eric the dog. One is a woodcut and one is a copperplate etching. They’re both beautiful and made exclusively
for POW in the actual real Italy…
Croce, left, is in an edition of 23, 35.5×25cm and costs £225.00. Ballano, right, is in an edition of 29, 49.5×35cm and costs £250.00.
If you hurry, you may get in before they sell out.
No comments. Posted by tanner in limited edition, poster on 13 March 2009.
