Nautical Installation by Josh Beckman

I’ve always had a fas­ci­na­tion for old ships. That prob­a­bly stemmed from my obses­sion with the movie Goonies, but I absolutely love this instal­la­tion by Josh Beck­man. It’s a very sim­ple idea although prob­a­bly not a very sim­ple exe­cu­tion. I …

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Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles

I just came across this fan­tas­tic video cre­ated by the design stu­dents and fac­ulty of BYU. The con­cept is a typo­graphic feast about the five sense and was cre­ated with no com­puter gen­er­ated effects. Very enter­tain­ing. View it here

Thisisdisplay.org

Keep­ing on with my look back at the greats of design his­tory, I wanted to post about a great resource I found today. I’m sure it is old news to most design afi­ciona­dos but Thisisdisplay.org, or Dis­play, is a curated …

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Alvin Lustig

I love design from the first half of the 20th cen­tury. It is the period that marked the birth of mod­ern adver­tis­ing and design. For some rea­son, maybe because I wasn’t pay­ing atten­tion, I don’t remem­ber learn­ing a whole lot …

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The Antlers — Hospice

Due to my recent redesign and sim­pli­fi­ca­tion of my web­site, I had to rid it of a few sec­tions that were, for the most part, very rarely updated and pretty heavy for the ini­tial load­ing of the page. So, in …

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Linotype: The Film

It seems to me that graphic design has been becom­ing more and more pop­u­lar these days. From being casu­ally men­tioned as a cool line of work (in Juno) to being the protagonist’s occu­pa­tion (sev­eral movies and more impor­tantly Mad Men, …

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Undergrad Project Concept

Root­ing through my hard drive in order to make an attempt at orga­ni­za­tion I came across sev­eral old project fold­ers from a few years ago, and in each folder were sev­eral con­cept comps. Admit­tedly, I was a very lazy student …

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BMW 3 Series Commercial

The new (to me) BMW 3 Series com­mer­cial is one of the most beau­ti­ful com­mer­cials cur­rently air­ing. This caught my sleepy eye last night as I was about to turn off the tv. I know very lit­tle about cars but …

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Concrete Promo Video

Con­crete Design Com­mu­ni­ca­tions is a stu­dio in Toronto, CA. This promo video does a won­der­ful job of con­vey­ing to the viewer the high qual­ity of work they pro­duce as well as their upbeat and play­ful nature. Via Swiss Legacy

&Co Wine Design

This is some great wine design. I love the sim­plic­ity of the col­ors and restraint in the actual design of the labels. The typog­ra­phy is excel­lent. I love to see clas­sic ser­ifs paired with con­tem­po­rary sans-serifs. Espe­cially with strik­ing contrasts …

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