ILLUSTRATION Beautiful flickr set. These designs would make some pretty awesome tattoos.
Author: Crystal Chou
Book addiction cont’d
BOOKS So here’s the last book, Trademarks & Symbols of the World. The cover is pretty janky but the insides are awesome.
Scanwiches oh my
FINDINGS Sandwiches are my all time favorite things to eat. Check out this blog that documents scanned images of sandwiches. I wonder how greasy the scanner has become. Yum.
Emilie Rigaud
GRAPHIC DESIGN This portfolio is filled with some great pieces that feature amazing 3d typography. And an added bonus, the website itself is designed rather nicely too!
David Standen
Legal pot
GRAPHIC DESIGN The new issue of Print Magazine asked four design studios to imagine the future of legal pot and how it would be packaged. Featured here is the solution that Base Design has come up with.
Floating logos
PHOTOGRAPHY A trippy photographic series of floating signage. This one’s my favorite.
Cards of change
FINDINGS This is a website where you can send pictures of your old business cards, modified to reflect a positive change. “Cardsofchange is a place where the glass is always half-full. A destination where all the bad news of the day takes a back seat to stories of individual success.”
The uniform project
SAVING THE WORLD NY-based designer Sheena Matheiken has pledged to wear one dress for one year as an exercise in sustainable fashion. The Uniform Project is also a year-long fundraiser for the Akanksha Foundation, a grassroots movement that is revolutionizing education in India.
Woodn’t it be nice
FINDINGS Here’s a typeface called Woodini designed by the talented people over at Komboh. I found this via a pretty cool blog called It’s (k)not wood.