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Category Archives: Art


Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles

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

Alvin Lustig

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 Perfect Pour

The Perfect Pour

This self-promotional poster from Plaid Inc. is a nice mix of info­graph­ics and cof­fee. This would have been great when I worked at a café so that I could have made those drinks cus­tomers ordered that I’d never heard of …

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Aaron Horkey's

Aaron Horkey’s “Midwestern Heart”

Yet another incred­i­ble print by Aaron Horkey. This man has got some seri­ous tal­ent. This poster, like his oth­ers, was drawn by hand. Unbe­liev­able, right? More info can be found here.

Alphaposters from Happycentro

Alphaposters from Happycentro

I had just recently res­tum­bled across these Alpha­pos­ters from Hap­py­cen­tro and remem­bered just how much I enjoy the con­cept and imagery. I espe­cially like the “f” poster with the map illus­tra­tion. Old maps are the greatest.

The Bungaloo: Fairly Recent Update

The Bungaloo: Fairly Recent Update

My friend and fel­low designer at the Bun­ga­loo recently updated his site with some new work. As usual, the posters are so fun to look at. I espe­cially dig his Liars poster with the torn wall­pa­per theme. Very cool. Buy them …

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Cool Infrared Photography

Cool Infrared Photography

My fiancé recently got her hands on an infrared con­verted Nikon D70 and holy crap are the pic­tures unique. Yes­ter­day she went to a park near our apart­ment and shot some pic­tures dur­ing the nice, slightly cloudy after­noon. What she …

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