“I have to have something to show prospective clients this week so would you be able to pull something together in the next few days? I will also need a couple of pie charts done for a 1 page website. If deal goes ahead there will be some good money in it for you.”
For the 5th Typophile Film Festival, BYU design students handcrafted these opening tittles. This process, that also included stop motion, filming and animation was overseen by creative direcor and faculty manager Brent Barson. I am amazed by the level of creativity and the craftmanship of making the typography.
I’m proud of my friend and fellow New Worker making it all the way to the cover of the respectable dutch magazine Vrij Nederland. Check out the seven page article on this college dropout by Maurits Martijn. Another magazine is coming up, more on that next week…
Normally designers hate standard scrollbars and go to great lengths to avoid them. Why not embrace them like these guys did and create something beautiful. Who says you can’t make a silk pure out of a sow’s ear?
Found this huge collection of movie titles, from 1900 till now. Lots of great type. Nice to see how things evolved, and in the end, are repeated.
from hell
We all know them, we all had them. Clients from hell.
This website collects the best (or should that be worst?) client horror stories from designers.
Nice piece of linguistic fun from the Booreiland team. With the Random Word Machine you’ll find just the right name for all your new work!
From now on I’ll start my days with a fact from Learn Something Every Day. (and will become unbeatable with Triviant Pursuit!) Lovely site by UK based design studio Young.
This is a Canadian art magazine I always wanted to post here for it is always on point with inspiring artwork and has a special touch for finding brilliant illustrators and painters. Founded by two artists in 2005 this quarterly magazine has a nose for what’s happening underground.
At LAIKA, some guys are trying to create dynamic scripts. Take a look at their interactive font that changes as you move your mouse around the screen. I’ve no idea how you could use it professionally, but it’s cool to see that it is working.
Pornographics Studio made a little tribute to the sublime titles of 70′s erotic movies. Gotta love those sleazy vintage images!
Not sure if it has been here before, but it’s def worth a post. Animation student Sjors Vervoort made this cool stopmotion movie from ehh.. cardboard! (thx thomas)
Toytype.com is a new initiative by the four creatives of Enchilada with the sole purpose of honouring their appetite for designing new fonts and messing around with characters. All the designs feature the word Toytype. In a way you can see it as a form of online grafitti.
Don’t ask me how I got on boerderij.nl. But they have a really bad ass calender called the ‘Stoere Boerenmei-denkalender‘. Yes, it’s amateur model girls posing on various farm locations and the real beauty is not really the kind of photos but the caption underneath. So watch but definitely read this calender (for dutchies only).
Shame on us for posting late on this: Well known dutch studio Dumbar caused a little ruckus charging 2.2 million euros for the University of Twente‘s new visual identity, with a dot as the main element. Here is Dumbar themselves explaining their work. One way the identity was put to use is this great animation by Buro Knapzak.
The New York Times’ T magazine collected the T’s artists and designers made for the cover of its past issues. Now you can check them all!
You may remember that post by Bob about the brilliant blog Stuff white people like. Within that demographic there’s the small but scary culture of bored suburban American teenagers hooked on crunkcore. There’s a guy bloggin’ about it and he couldn’t have chosen a beter URL then this one:
“A group of artists comes together in locations around the world to create art pieces that spell out the philosophy of Absolut Vodka.” Not that fond of the concept, but it looks great. Since I don’t have a Facebook page I can’t view this link, it seems to have more info.
Sad but true signs, especially in these times. Published in the Pentagram Papers.
To promote the new Toyota iQ Pierre Smeets & Damien Aresta created a font with the car. You can download it here.
Every morning when I arrive at work I check my mail, and find the only mailing which I enjoy receiving. Every day Laurens jz Coster sends me one (dutch) poem. They spread the old, vary from Herman Brood to Scheltema. Don’t bother to visit their website to find some 2.0 slickness, it’s horrible.
If you’re interested in the people behind blogs then Blocter is the place to go to. Since February Jorrit Spoelstra is making short video interviews to find out what drives certain bloggers. Not about NewWorkers as you can already clearly see who we are. The latest portrait is about Koert van Mensvoort from Next Nature.
Yes, there’s a new type foundry online and we have british Alex Haigh to thank for that. The site is focused on showcasing the best in today’s typographic talent, as well as providing a platform for creatives to see & buy unique fonts by the likes of Alex Trochut, Jon Burgerman, Si Scott, Hellohikimori or Luke Lucas.
Since the start of June the NewWork Twitter is up and running. It’s a better fit for short posts. We’re working on a RSS connection. Until that time we will feed the little bird with new text and links. Different ones, for even more new inspiration, events and internet randomness. So don’t hesitate and join us there.
frog design unveils ‘Power’ issue. As the recession has altered the economic landscape, and digital technologies continue to challenge conventional hierarchies, Design Mind Magazine explores new definitions of influence and power. Who has it, where can you find it, how is it being used, what happens to you if you lose it?
The good people at Inspired Magazine were kind enough to select 15 Essential Interviews For The Creative Community. The interviewed are mainly young succesfull designers, entrepreneurs and programmers. You may not like them all but i bet there’s something inspiring to find for most of you.
Just re-released: Woordkaas, a place to find and make fun mashups of words and sayings. Pretty Dutch, but these exclusive plates speak for themselves.
The newest online revolution from Google?
Web 3.0? Email 3.0? I’ve watched a few parts of the developer preview and I’m curious where this is going to end up.
Sometimes it seems like a new sport: people polishing up their image on Twitter in ways that would normally be considered behaving like a total douchebag. They’re trying way too hard. Now there’s justice with a site where you can report those kind of tweets. Surprised Karl or Donnie aren’t up there yet.