Thursday, March 19, 2009

27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis

Will charts help take the sting out of watching our mortgages, jobs, and 401(k)s spiral down the drain? Have a gander at
27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis and let me know.

via FlowingData

Friday, March 13, 2009

Periodic Table of Typefaces


More art than science—but definitely all geek—download the JPEG Periodic_Table_of_Typefaces from Squidspot.

via Lifehacker

Monday, March 2, 2009

A photo is worth a thousand...




tons of garbage.

What are we THINKING?

This amazing series is by artist Chris Jordan, of Seattle.

He calls it "Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait."

As astonishing as his statistics are, what he has done with them is even
more astonishing.

via email forwarded to me by Connie Torii; courtesy of Karl K

Friday, February 20, 2009

Pepsi Logo Response - artwork by Lawrence Yang

A fun interpretation of the new Pepsi logo. Now, when I see the new Pepsi logo I can’t help but see the same thing.

Pepsi Logo Response - artwork by Lawrence Yang

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament

via email from Roland

One of my colleagues invited me via Facebook to the Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament

Although I've never heard of it, it looks interesting.

It is happening in San Francisco:

WHEN:
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Doors open 5:30 PM
Show starts 6:00 PM

WHERE:
The Galleria
101 Henry Adams St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

San Francisco will host competitions in 2D, 3D, and Motion Graphics for Digital Design Tournament 2009. See the Competition Formats page for the rules and details of each of these platforms. When you're ready to roll, enter the Call for Competitors here. Judges from all three design disciplines will be announced in the coming weeks. Check back soon to find out who will be hovering over our competitors' shoulders onstage.

Roland

Monday, December 29, 2008

The I Love Typography Blog

While perusing WordPress implementations, I found this blog. And on this blog I found this page.

Flickr Found Type

Quite pretty and interesting. Maybe there's food for the muse here.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Obama logos ideas that weren’t chosen

The title says it all. Just reposting “Obama logos ideas that weren’t chosen” from Logo Design Love.

In the end, I think they chose the right one.

via Daring Fireball