Design Inspiration

Check out aekido’s Lego letterpress work.

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:45:28 -0400

Check out aekido’s Lego letterpress work.

Check out the new typeface Trend Hand Made by Daniel Hernández...

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:30:42 -0400

Check out the new typeface Trend Hand Made by Daniel Hernández & Paula Nazal Selaive

new ap on itunes. quick and dirty font maker. called iFontMaker

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:45:14 -0400

new ap on itunes. quick and dirty font maker. called iFontMaker

artpixie: By Coming Soon

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:30:35 -0400

artpixie:

By Coming Soon

ucresearch: There’s a lot of debris floating around in space,...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:45:27 -0400

ucresearch:

There’s a lot of debris floating around in space, and researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab are using supercomputers, optical sensors and other technology to track even small objects that could damage important satellites.

John Henderson, a space scientist at LLNL, explains:

“Everybody uses GPS to get from here to there. We have satellite television, we have weather reports, farmers use satellite data for monitoring crops. If you have a piece of satellite debris whacking into a satellite, in the worst case you now lose that capability. In February of 2009, that actually happened where there was an Iridium communications satellite that collided with a dead Russian Kosmos satellite and so that basically took out a $100 million dollar satellite.

There’s somewhere between 100,000 to 200,000 pieces of debris that we would like to be tracking. And so the supercomputing capabilities that we have here at Livermore are one way to keep track of that.”

Watch the video here→

Clean simple animation about Adobe CMO. Amazingly a one week...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:15:32 -0400

Clean simple animation about Adobe CMO. Amazingly a one week turnaround on the project

two very separate reasons for why I like the work by Gordon...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:30:42 -0400

two very separate reasons for why I like the work by Gordon Beverage

true 3D maps from Stamen I feel like spiderman when I use this...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:45:21 -0400

true 3D maps from Stamen I feel like spiderman when I use this site.

Some screen printing work from Karl Tagle.

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:15:49 -0400

Some screen printing work from Karl Tagle.

part of the project The Chicago Neighborhoods I love the way the...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:30:28 -0400

part of the project The Chicago Neighborhoods I love the way the logo is constructed. Make sure to look at the rest.

Distance to Mars great web site with the single purpose of...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:45:24 -0400

Distance to Mars great web site with the single purpose of showing you the vast space that exists in … well space. I won’t ruin it with more pictures you just need to check it out for yourself.

Anatomy of a Mashup. web interactive breakdown of a daft punk...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:15:23 -0400

Anatomy of a Mashup. web interactive breakdown of a daft punk track.

Semi-permanent titles. Great use of mirroring and effects. So...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:30:37 -0400

Semi-permanent titles. Great use of mirroring and effects. So simple but I’d imagine it’s much harder to actually pull off.

Hyperlapse demo video. Make sure to check out their site here to...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:45:36 -0400

Hyperlapse demo video. Make sure to check out their site here to make your own hyperlapse clip.

commercial for 5 national parks in Utah.

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:53:42 -0400

commercial for 5 national parks in Utah.

typeverything: Typeverything.com, Alan Mays

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:45:30 -0400

typeverything:

Typeverything.com, Alan Mays

legitimusmaximus: curiousintent: So here is 4 pieces that I’ve...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:34:34 -0400

legitimusmaximus:

curiousintent:

So here is 4 pieces that I’ve done pretty recently, and you know the one thing they have in common? Besides being comic book characters. They take me about 10 minutes. I’m going to Tokyo on Holiday in 2 weeks, so I’m opening up a special $5 commision special. $5 - 10 minute digital character sketches. Whatever, whoever. Imagine the impossible, A leprechaun Warewolf, Rule 63 Uatu, Leonardo DiCaprio holding an academy award. Or how about just your favourite comic person rendered by yours truly.

Just send the details to Mike.Kevan(at)gmail.com. (also the paypal) I will do them on a first come, first serve basis, whenever I get the time, and I will email you the image. Thanks.

Show some support. I’ll be throwing funds this way once I can think up something impossible.

surroundedbyrealshit: My random typography...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:45:27 -0400

surroundedbyrealshit:

My random typography exercises.

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"Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling 1 You admire a character for trying more than for their..."

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:15:12 -0400

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Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

1 You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.

2 You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.

3 Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.

4 Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.

5 Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.

6 What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?

7 Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.

8 Finish your story, let go even if it’s not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.

9 When you’re stuck, make a list of what WOULDN’T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.

10 Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you’ve got to recognize it before you can use it.

11 Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never share it with anyone.

12 Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.

13 Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it’s poison to the audience.

14 Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it.

15 If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty lends credibility to unbelievable situations.

16 What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don’t succeed? Stack the odds against.

17 No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on – it’ll come back around to be useful later.

18 You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.

19 Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.

20 Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like?

21 You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can’t just write ‘cool’. What would make YOU act that way?

22 What’s the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.

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- Emma Coates via - boing boing

Lego Letterpress poster from physical fiction

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:30:31 -0400

Lego Letterpress poster from physical fiction