Archive for January, 2008

Brylcreem commercial

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

A cool and relaxing ad.

Ancient chinese typography

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Sometimes being a compulsive eBay buyer can be a good thing. Recently I acquired an old chinese book.
The thing that immediately amazed me is the quality and the variety in the pages layout and the typography. Unfortunately I can’t read japanese, so I don’t understand anything about the meaning of the book.

Interesting headers and table [...]

Finer spacing in typography

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

A really ironic book cover, seen on typography.com. Via Daring Fireball.

3 graphic designers recreate D-day

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Most of you probably already have seen this video, but it’s too amazing for not being posted here.

The gangsta egg frier

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Cook your eggs the gangsta way with this product by UrbanTrend. (via Laughing Squid)

Webdesigner != DJ

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

if your visitors want to listen music they will listen their mp3, your site is not a jukebox. In fact they most likely already are listening music and yours is only mixing with it, creating an unbearable and unwanted musical chaos.
I could make every word of this rant mine.

Yummy packaging

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Great packaging work by Pearlfisher. Via FormFiftyFive (also made me discover The Dieline, a nice blog dedicated to packaging).