Posts Tagged: Graphic Design and Designers
Hot Off the Press
This evening I dropped by a local news stand on Yonge Street and picked up today's New York Times to see the Firefox ad everyone's been anticipating. I've been doing some minor critiquing of the preliminary designs with Steven, but I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw it printed on newsprint at …
Favourite Favicons: Eight
Here's the latest addition to the ever-growing collection of great favicons from around the web. These favicons are culled from all kinds of sites, but I've recently gotten into Photoblogs and there are a few good examples of favicons taken from some of them including In the Rain, East 3rd, and …
Package May Contain Nuts
My sister came up with this amazing plan a few months ago, and for a few heady days we thought that we'd strike it rich. Originally, the concept was for a pair of undies that said "May Contain Nuts." I mean, that's pretty good and we laughed for a while, but then the brilliance occurred to us …
Daily Dose of Imagery
Maybe I'm the last person in Toronto to know about this, but Sam Javanrough's Daily Dose of Imagery is an absolutely incredible photoblog in the city. I was actually in BCE Place for the first time today and was going to make a post encouraging anyone who visits the city to take a quick walk …
A Visit to the Salon
Guest Post by Nick Burka (my twin brother) • I don't quite know how it started, but 3 years on I'm still doing it. Shortly after Salon.com changed their layout to the way it appears now, I became enamored by their clever and well designed front-page category images. Periodically I would stop and …
Mapped Pictures
Edward Tufte has posted a chapter from his soon-to-be-released book Beautiful Evidence on his website. The chapter, titled "Mapped Pictures: Images as Explanations and Evidence", contains the type of beautiful data-filled imagery you might expect from Tufte. The Albrecht Dürer woodcut and …
Welcome to the New World
Following the unfortunate1 result of the American election, some witty disillusioned Yankees have been redrawing their maps. Instead of leaving their country in disgust, they're carving it up. Gone are the red states, or at least parts of them, and a new type of nation, filled with liberal …
Favourite Favicons: Seven
Here's yet another installment of favicons to be added to the original collection. I think this time there are some really stellar examples. Rapha's stylish "R" matches their slick new website and the University of Saskatchewan's icon is very pixel-icious. Do enjoy. • If you've suggested a …
Wards Island Disc Golf Map
On Toronto Island, there's a very nice disc golf course (aka frisbee golf course) that runs along a good portion of Wards Island. This was one of the things I was really looking forward to when I moved to Toronto a few months ago. However, although it's easy to find the course itself, it's very …
Domed Stamps
This news is a few months old but certainly worth mentioning. The US Postal Service has released a commemorative stamp in honour of the brain behind the weirdly fascinating geodesic dome: inventor Buckminster Fuller. This has to be one of the finest concepts for a commemorative stamp I've seen …