The talented people of Booreiland have written and designed a new book called ‘Meta Products’. It talks about this phenomenon and presents Network Focused Design as a design approach, to create successful solutions for our connected world. I’m intrigued by Booreiland’s thoughtful approach and elegant graphics.
Another fun Thumblr collection just popped up. This time it’s from the Comic Sans Defenders, whose mission is to make the whole world Comic Sans.
John Hegarty is a man who doesn’t need an introduction on this blog. Simply the fact that this legend published a book should make you click on the link below and buy the book. It’s one of the most clever things I’ve done this month. And if you’re in Amsterdam on the 14th of November, don’t skip the book presentation at Hotel V.
Written by Joris Bak, illustrated by Robert Beckand. And for their own kids in the first place. First difficult topic:
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Awesome vintage-inspired hand typography and logo work by Simon Walker. What more to say?
Search for the thing you love and see the results in a one page overview including pictures, alerts, patents, videos, statistics, books, translations, 3D SketchUp, latest news, blog searches, locations, group discussions etcetera. In other words, see how Google tools can help you in all kinds of directions with the thing you love.
Enter a Twitter name and generate a new tweet based on all previous tweets from that account. Works brilliantly. Sometimes results almost look plausible, most often the result is hilarious. It’s almost a kind of slang generator. Created by the fine people of Monokai.
If you’ve missed it you might not have payed attention to your timeline or you’re not Dutch. We’re not talking about number 42 of the Lakers, but about our local hero who had his literary début this weekend. Read reviews here, buy it over there, and hear the tape anywhere. Cover design by the talented team of Dog and Pony.
The disasters that hit Japan, hit us all. Cordaid wanted the Dutch to be able to show their support to the Japanese people, some companies helped create Haiku for Hope free of charge. You can leave a wish in short sentences, auto translated into Japanese (using Google Translate).
The dutch street art guerrilla crew (SKG) has been very, very, active in Amsterdam the last couple of weeks. Their latest (and I think funniest) action is the altering of the ‘I Amsterdam‘ tourist logo into something else.
The three amigos from Underware did it again. After their kids Liza and Bello took over the world they now came up with a smarter brother for styleguru mr. Porter. It’s definitely a smart one since it automatically behaves like real handwriting.
Check out this super nice collection of old school commercial Volkswagen buses. The hand painted typography looks amazing.
A must read for all designers out there. “The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers is a list of helpful and *subtle* suggestions to organize Photoshop Documents, making the transfer of them less painful.”
Bob Servant is the man who does reply to those fine emails that solicit money – and won’t you believe it, he encounters an African prince with talking lions, a concerned Russian bride with a sickly grandmother and Xiong the Chinese boss. Read an extract from the hilarious Delete This At Your Peril, by Neil Forsyth.
1. Go to Google Maps 2. Get directions 3. Type from Japan to China (by car) 4. Look at point 43 via @keeslangerak
“Lunch is critically important to W+K NY. Our office sits between Soho, Tribeca and the W. Village, so we’re spoiled with our pick of great restaurants in the neighborhood. Attack designed and hand-painted a wall in our space with the names of some of our favorite spots that keep the W+K NY team happy throughout the day.”
Straight out of Brooklyn comes this massive, educational taxonomy diagram of every rapper’s name that ever was. Pretty damn useful if you want to start a career in hiphop. You can buy the poster in the shop of the designers Pop Chart Lab.
Tim selects every week or so a person who is a) young, b) speaks Dutch (or Flemish) and c) is not famous (yet). He asked people like James, Nine or Michiel to write on the blog about their own inspiration via a selection of videos. It’s like Zomergasten, a live TV interview where famous dutch people are interviewed the same way. Only this isn’t live and it isn’t an interview. And it’s online.
An interesting analogy on innovation by one of my frog colleagues.
While vinyl gets all the credit, cassettes deserve essays of their own. Rob Walker blesses us with some fine examples of how this medium still manages to survive.
‘This is a sketchbook, an archive, a dialogue.’ It’s a nice little blog by 4 friends (of type) posting (and selling) their type experiments. You could also consider it a warm-up for Adobe User Group’s Type in Motion session, today.
While painting an installation at a Stüssy store in Tokyo (graffiti) artist Eric Haze took a rare interview with Defrag. He talks about comming up in a time where you could not rely on global communication for inspiration and contacts. You had to just make a name for yourself based on your skills and travel the road you love.
is a Dutch blogger who writes about his encounters with the opposite sex (in his case females). It’s always a pleasure, laugh and revelation to read his articles. So for the dutchies go and read:
The members of the Amercian Dialect Centre voted “tweet” as the word of 2009. Guess what they voted word of the decade… Both right choices if you ask me.
Interactive copywriters beware, your futures are in danger…or your life just got easier.
Finally someone dared to make a proper book about the corporate identity that was used to communicate the totalitarian ideology and practices of the National Socialists. Ofcourse a very sensitive subject for many as this identity was both brilliant as it was scary in its effect on the masses. You can read an interview with German graphic designer and author of the book Andreas Koop.
Yes, it’s the time again for Best-of-2009-lists. The New Work York Times Magazine made this interesting ABC list with the best ideas of 2009. Get ready for Advertisement That Watches You, Glow-in-the-dark Dogs and Printable Batteries. Yay!