Fill/Stroke.com
Yes. More Ties. I love them, I want more. And I guess that’s why I keep seeing them everywhere lately. Band of Outsiders teamed up with Beauty & Youth for a feature on honeyee.com, a Japanese magazine.
I like the mashups of patterns and styles that are happening in the photoshoot.
So, would anyone buy a Fill/Stroke tie? hmm? Bow-tie maybe?
via hypebeast
This Aint No Disco has a post up about Wieden + Kennedy’s London workspace, and I couldn’t help but notice a Ruckus sitting in the picture. Scooters FTW!
This Aint No Disco is a great site that features design agency workspaces. It’s hard not to look end up drooling and wanting to re-do your office.
Wieden + Kennedy are a design agency who did the Cog advertisement for the Honda Accord that was a collection of the parts of the accord moving in a domino-esque effect, first made popular by Swiss artists Peter Fischli & David Weiss in the 1987 film “Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go)”
Wieden + Kennedy (you can watch Cog by clicking Honda)
Some other work of Fischli & Weiss can be found here though the original 30 minute video isn’t available except on DVD it seems. Four minutes of it are available here though:
1 comment. Posted by md in Uncategorized on 4 December 2008.
Keeping on this apparent Tie theme, here is an offering from Cyberoptix, the lorem ipsum tie (maybe, to replace the gap of posts left by the election being over, I’ll just start posting men’s fashion stuff)
Now, a tie made of filler text is great, I know, but the packaging option is amazing too
Check them out here:
2 comments. Posted by md in Uncategorized on 4 December 2008.
I’m absolutely loving the colors and plaid on the handmade ties at David Hart & Co (not the pricetag so much though)
No comments. Posted by md in fashion on 3 December 2008.
I haven’t finished my article yet, about Real Design Education/Resources, but consider this a preview.
There are often tons of “Learning” resources on websites like Design Float and others, that really just amount to a big list of tutorials and/or style guides. They are totally useful, and I’m not discounting their value at all, but when I saw a post that was “Design School 101″ or something similar, and it was listing all of those sites, I was really confused. Is that what design learning means to us? A collection of tutorials, methods of production?
It spawned the idea of creating a resource and highlighting websites that are more than just production guides, but act as a way of teaching the fundamentals of design.
This site, The Grid System, would be an excellent example. It’s just been recently launched and features not just tools and templates for using a grid in your designs, but more importantly has articles and lists of books that will help you learn WHY you should be using a grid system in the first place. It’s header has a JMB quote, so you know its got its heart in the right place:
(hanging quote! *swoon*)
And I guess that’s the primary difference I’m shooting for in this RDE series of posts.
Why you do the design things you do, not just how to do them.
Check out thegridsystem.org
No comments. Posted by md in Real Design Education on 2 December 2008.
So, its the end of 2008, almost. We started collecting information, interviews, ideas, content for this magazine back in June of 2007. A year a half! But with school, jobs, life, we got behind.
But, we totally love this thing, as much as its broken and a collection of grand ideas and content. We don’t want to rush it, or fake it. We refuse to release it except in the best possible way (you know…except for money) and so we are declaring Fill/Stroke vaporware* for 2008, with the promise that it will happen in 2009.
The way its looking now, its going to be big. Book-like. People have said “Break it up into several issues!” and we said “No.” That simple.
We will give you a great magazine, whether you want it or not.
Keep reading the blog though! This is easier to keep up and we hope it has similar insight and intrigue as the magazine will upon completion.
Thanks everyone, and an early “Happy Holidays” to you all.
*Vaporware is a somewhat derogatory term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having exceeded the period of development time that was initially expected.
No comments. Posted by md in featured, issue 1 on 1 December 2008.
Arkitip #0049 is going to have Peter Saville as the cover artist and curator.
Peter Saville is of course the former Factory Records designer.
More about Saville here
Arkitip blog article here
No comments. Posted by md in books on 13 November 2008.
Faile are returning to their early aesthetic influences growing up in the Southwest by channeling appropriated Pop cultural renderings of American Indian culture into their trademark heavily layered work in a pointed commentary on “the expanse of contemporary commercialism at the expense of society’s connection with nature and spirit.”
Faile
Lost In Glimmering Shadows via Supertouch
2 comments. Posted by md in exhibition, streetart on 13 November 2008.
