Monday, February 22, 2010

Of Interest (Design): 02.22.2010

+ Awesome "visual display of information": the ingredients of a Hot Pocket in typography. Limited edition print coming soon!

+ These handmade envelopes with Google Maps interiors are very cool, but would only be effective if recipients open carefully. (They probably use a lot of printer ink, too.)

+ Challenge: Design a cover for Nabokov's Lolita. The impressive, the inappropriately cliche, and the inexcusably ugly. (See entire set here.)

+ Popular web services (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, etc.) imagined as vintage Penguin paperbacks.

+ TV shows distilled down to minimalist design, in poster form.

+ Massive design swoon: Letterheady, a blog collecting vintage letterhead designs. Lawrence Welk! Albert Einstein!

+ Late Night with Conan O'Brien Bumpers (the graphics they show before and after commercials), a collection from the designer. Here's my favorite:

1 comments:

Jen said...

Oh wow, a lot of those Lolita covers were just horrid in both concept and execution. Dear god people, MS Paint is not a design tool and drop shadows are not your friend! There were a few awesome ones in the mix though.