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RANDOM THOUGHTS I don’t know much about Twitter but I just learned about this fail whale image. Apparently, this image shows up during periods of downtime on Twitter and it has a HUGE fan base. People have made cakes, sculptures, and ascii illustrations of the whale. Someone even tattooed the image to their wrist!! What makes something become so popular?
FINDINGS For all you Epson lovers out there…they’re having a buy one get one free offer for all home and home office papers. The offer expires 2/23 and the discount code is: 9YFASE.
FINDINGS Aren’t these so interesting? Who wouldn’t want a rug in their living room that looks like a piece of meat.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN I just went on an AIGA studio tour at Mende Design and got a chance to visit their amazing space and learn about their design process. Jeremy Mende, the creative genius behind the studio has always been a great inspiration to me. I’m just mad at myself for being too chicken to talk to him.
GRAPHIC DESIGN Rojo is selling a limited edition poster collection that includes 10 original unreleased artworks by MWM, Bruno 9li, Neasden Control Centre, Evgeny Kiselev, Catalina Estrada, Dalek, Sergei Sviatchenko, Wagner Pinto, Alexander Egger, Veljko Onjin.
SAVING THE WORLD Compostmodern is back again this year and will be held in San Francisco on February 21st. This conference was developed by the San Francisco chapter of AIGA and the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design (CFSD) to explore and discuss socially and ecologically responsible design thinking.
ILLUSTRATION I just bookmarked this new blog to my thousands of favorites! The illustrations are terrific and the titles just crack me up. A perfect read for a crappy Monday morning.
GRAPHIC DESIGN I’ve always wondered what my signature would look like if my name was spelled with a K instead of a C. Here’s a fun article by AIGA about the use of the letter K in identity design.
VIDEO Check out this sexy 1950 Vandercook letterpress work its thang. Happy weekend!
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Sadly one of my few design icons, Shigeo Fukuda, an influential Japanese designer/artist/visual illusionist/communicator passed away a few days ago. His life was filled with many great achievements and will always be remembered and admired through his work. I bet he’s chillin’ with Mr. MC Escher!