I’ve always been impressed with Mark Weaver’s continuously fantastic collage series Make Something Cool Every Day. Firstly, making something like this every day is a great project — I love when designers make their personal work public. Secondly, these collages are an interesting mishmash of styles and images. Mark has a keen sense of knowing what types of images work well together. I especially like the combination of geographic landscapes, modernist architecture, and scientifi... Read Full Story

A Colt is My Passport (1967) - Directed by Takashi Nomura If your into classic + cult films it would be worth your while to check Shannon Maldonado’s I Love Hot Dogs.  Several times a week Shannon curates a selection of stills from a particular movie. I appreciate her selection process as she sometimes includes typographic/design details that can easily go unnoticed (think street signs, window lettering, etc.). For fans of the art of film title design, there’s plenty of that stuf... Read Full Story

A Colt is My Passport (1967) - Directed by Takashi Nomura If your into classic + cult films it would be worth your while to check Shannon Maldonado’s I Love Hot Dogs.  Several times a week Shannon curates a selection of stills from a particular movie. I appreciate her selection process as she sometimes includes typographic/design details that can easily go unnoticed (think street signs, window lettering, etc.). For fans of the art of film title design, there’s plenty of that stuf... Read Full Story

I visited New York last week, just in time to attend the opening reception of the Lubalin Now exhibition at the Cooper Union. The place was incredibly packed with ladies and gents in polychromatic garb, chatting about type with a nice drink in their hand. It was interesting to see the work of contemporary designers, such as Jessica Hische,  Brett Macfadden, Justin Thomas Kay, Deanne Cheuk, and HunterGatherer, juxtaposed against Lubalin’s original works. If you’re in or around Ne... Read Full Story

I visited New York last week, just in time to attend the opening reception of the Lubalin Now exhibition at the Cooper Union. The place was incredibly packed with ladies and gents in polychromatic garb, chatting about type with a nice drink in their hand. It was interesting to see the work of contemporary designers, such as Jessica Hische,  Brett Macfadden, Justin Thomas Kay, Deanne Cheuk, and HunterGatherer, juxtaposed against Lubalin’s original works. If you’re in or around Ne... Read Full Story

I had a chance to check out Visual Acoustics this weekend and I highly recommend it. The documentary is about the life and work of Julius Shulman, a brilliant architectural photographer whose photos captured the history of modernist architecture in Southern California. During his prolific career he worked with nearly every modern architect since the 1930s including John Lautner, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, PIerre Koenig, Charles and Ray Eames, Craig Ellwood, Raphael Soriano and Grego... Read Full Story

I had a chance to check out Visual Acoustics this weekend and I highly recommend it. The documentary is about the life and work of Julius Shulman, a brilliant architectural photographer whose photos captured the history of modernist architecture in Southern California. During his prolific career he worked with nearly every modern architect since the 1930s including John Lautner, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, PIerre Koenig, Charles and Ray Eames, Craig Ellwood, Raphael Soriano and Grego... Read Full Story

1. Come to Africa - Designed by Gerard van de Voort - c1975 How about virtual tour around the world to start off the week?  I dug up a handful of travel related posters from 1950s -1970s for all the desk jockeys that are itching to get out of town. Enjoy! 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15/16. 17/18. 2. Argentina c1950 -Poster artist - Cesareo  3. Beieren c1960- Designed by Herman Verbaere 4. Paris-Orly for Air France c1962- Design & Illustration by Jaques ... Read Full Story

1. Come to Africa - Designed by Gerard van de Voort - c1975 How about virtual tour around the world to start off the week?  I dug up a handful of travel related posters from 1950s -1970s for all the desk jockeys that are itching to get out of town. Enjoy! 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15/16. 17/18. 2. Argentina c1950 -Poster artist - Cesareo  3. Beieren c1960- Designed by Herman Verbaere 4. Paris-Orly for Air France c1962- Design & Illustration by Jaques ... Read Full Story

Hell yea. Cool logos on trucks + vans! It doesn’t get much better then this. The Autografik flickr group is set to serve as an archive for modern design applied to motor vehicles. Thanks to Jonathan Turner aka insect54 for setting this bad boy up. ——————– Also worth checking: Donald Brun poster. Not signed up for the Grain Edit RSS Feed yet? Give it a try. Its free and yummy. ——————– No TagsShare This Congrats to B. Rane! She is the winner in the Photo-Lettering giveaway. Grain E... Read Full Story