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Beautiful Black and White Logo
June 24, 2009
Sorry it’s such poor image quality. Best I could come up with.
via The Dieline
A pleasant surprise
June 23, 2009I’m in Lewisburg, PA for a few weeks visiting my folks. Today, I went to the local bank to cash a check. On the way out, something caught my eye: there was a little ruler taped to the side of the doorframe, allowing exiting patrons to check their heights. My height has absolutely nothing to do with banking; the bank isn’t charging to measure me; my stopping on the way out to check my height could, if anything, actually bottle up the flow of patrons in and out of the bank. But how pleasant! A little bit of fun, made that much better by the fact that it has no pragmatic benefit and is completely unexpected.
Beware Smashing Magazine
June 1, 2009I remember Andy Rutledge linking to an article from Digital Web from the “ephemera” section of his website. After linking, he said something to the effect of too bad it appears in such an “irresponsibly-run rag”. This pretty much sums up my attitude about Smashing Magazine. Sometimes there are very worthwhile articles and some of the best in the industry have written for or appeared in it, but, at the end of the day, Smashing Magazine is an irresonsibly-run rag. But this time they’ve really pissed me off…
In defense of things black and white
May 27, 2009I just saw LogoLounge’s 2009 Logo Design Trends curation. This yearly feature is the only content that gets me to LogoLounge, but I really think it’s always well done. I like that they make up their own, non-technical names for these trends, like “varidot” and “encrust.” Anyway, I’m not writing a love letter to LogoLounge. I’m slowly making my way to a point: While there are a few lovely one-color-plus-white logos in the collection, a great many rely on a polychromatic palette. I don’t mean benefit from, I mean rely.
QUOTED: William McDonough via Oberholtzer Creative
May 10, 2009“If we think about the tree as a design, it’s something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, provides a habitat for hundreds of species, accrues solar energy, makes complex sugars and food, creates micro-climates, self-replicates. So, what would it be like to design a building like a tree? What would it be like to design a city like a forest? So what would a building be like if it were photosynthetic? What if it took solar energy and converted it to productive and delightful use?”
via. Oberholtzer Creative’s (Flash, sadly) Visual Culture (non-flash, happily).