If you love looking at old equipment then this place is like Six Flags. It is the ever growing collection of George Ulm, a 1930’s radio producer from Chicago and it’s stacked into a house in his backyard. I have no idea what these machines do, but with all the funky meters and knobs I would love to put a few in my house. (via ISO50)
Still looking very new new, thus a bit empty, the website New Type York is dedicated to uncovering the typographic artifacts of New York City. Old signs, building inscriptions, hand lettering, etc, as captured on camera by NYC designer James Gibson. Hopefully this will grow a lot bigger.
Maybe too many designers are making it look old lately, combining old graphic styles and photos with paper textures, stains and color burn. But some of them, like Alex Varanese, make it look so nice I can only enjoy it.
Be happy. Be angry. Be mad. Be sad! These actors are showing the essence of a character. Making faces in the lens of Howard Schatz. I believe them!
Dutch illustrator Stefan Glerum has had a local buzz about him for some time now, mainly started by his Isut HipHap flyers and Crate Digging series. His work is original, funny and simply looks great. It’s only a matter of time before he really blows up. For now check out his updated portfolio.
After thanking Canaste for setting my thunder hard new 4screens workplace up he made me aware of Hot Chicks. Yes, that sounds dodgy. But you can’t hate on a site like Hot Chicks with Stubbed Toes Making Sex Faces or one like Chicks smiling at Ground Zero. Yes, that’s some fine additions to the web, crystal clear URL’s included.
The new annual Feltron report has just been released. “Each day in 2009, I asked every person with whom I had a meaningful encounter to submit a record of this meeting through an online survey”. Don’t you just love useless but beautiful infographics.
The National Geographic Channel comes with a new program called ‘In the womb’, which shows an impressive view of unborn animal life; check out these cool embryo photographs!
ABOA is Italian Photographer Paolo Novelli’s return to exploring the great diversity of Africa, adapting and developing the technique that he has applied so far to western urban scenes. Amazing works by P1.
Sometimes it’s hard to get into the mood for Christmas. Not for Lars. Last name Holdus. He’s from Holland. Lars got lots of sweaters for this special time of the year. He loves to show that collection. Some sweaters even bring him in the mood for dancing.
“I am a midnight photographer. Leica in right hand, bottle in left hand.” No need to say more about the beautiful photos of Junku Newcleus.
Get great backgrounds for your iPhone, iPod Touch and Android phones at the friendly guys of Poolga. These guys from Barcelona created a platform for hundreds of designs. Also take a look at their photo stream to see examples and more great artwork.
Film magazine Empire turns 20 and celebrates by recreating classic movies with portraits shot by Sarah Dunn and Robert Gallagher. Original actors included! This one of Christian Bale revisiting Patrick Bateman is my favourite, how about you?
Born and raised in Switzerland Stephan Walter creates these these amazing illustrations. He has to be one of the most patient designers out there, putting this much detail into his colorless, technical typography and it’s Vegas-style decorations.
Want to scare someone this Christmas? Buy them the Pop-up Book of Phobias. It’s got some phobias in there I never thought existed! (The fear of clowns?!) Also from the same author; the Pop-up Book of Nightmares.
For the Playground Festival in Tilburg, One Size and Revolver made this movie, after a lot of 3D post-production, simply out of stills. An impressive example of how powerful images can become.
An intruiging project called The Morae River is in the making by Brynn Metheny, an illustrator based in Oak-land who loves to draw beautiful imaginary creatures complete with descriptions of the animals, their habitats and behavior. Her project comes with it’s own website, a blog and very soon a book (in October).
A huge outback dust storm hit Sydney yesterday. It’s the worst of it’s kind that this Australian city has seen in 70 years. But also one of the most beautiful when captured on camera. It creates a really beautiful orange fog effect. It’s a photo set by Boston.com, they have more great collections here.
Noma Bar is an Israeli graphic designer who seems to be a specialist in clever use of negative space. Bar’s illustrations are collected in his new book Negative Space. Would love to hang these illustrations on my wall!
Just take three frames from a movie, convert it into an animated gif and post one everyday!
Under the name The human printer, a group of people create photographic prints by hand. You can even send in your own photos for them to work on. Respect.
Photographer Philip Toledano shot this series of pictures to tell the story of his dad who lost his memory.
The pictures and the little pieces of text next to them make it a very touching story.
Cardon Copy is a project by an artist out of New York. He hijacks self-distributed fliers with unconsidered designs, gives them a proper redesign and then replaces them in the original location. I like it!
Le Tour is over but we still have the photographs. Photo’s by Brent Humphreys, another Texan in the tour.
Momkai really did it again! I’m pleased to announce the new photo gallery module on Nalden.net by revealing these beautiful tilt-shift photos of Amsterdam taken by Sartoria! Experience is the new reality? La di da…
The latest fashion, news about fashion and the coolest people in the best cities of the world. This French blogger/illustrator by the name of Garance Doré takes pictures of people around the world. Streetstyle, new? I don’t know, but I like her style and photos. You can see her in FOAM during the fashion week.
Stumbled upon this site of Juan Francisco Casas. This Spanish artist has a special love for using a BIC balpen (and therefore must be very patient..)