Posts Tagged: Graphic Design and Designers
Favourite Favicons: Five
Each of the last three times I made a post with more favicons to be added to the original collection, I honestly kept thinking that that would be it. Then I got some good suggestions and happened to run across a few more and a future installment started building. Well, now there are well over 150 …
Presidential Postering
I followed one of Jason Kottke's links today to a Salon article and found a fantastic reworking of Goya's Saturn Devouring his Son. The version on Salon is taken from an advertisement in The Nation magazine and Saturn is replaced by George W. Bush. I've always admired Goya's original and this …
Presstube on CBC Radio 3
The amazingly talented illustrator and animator James Patterson, of Presstube, is being featured on CBC Radio 3. The piece shows an excerpt from his upcoming DVD (albeit in fairly grainy display), which I'll have to try to get a copy of. Look for the link at the bottom of the page that mentions …
Thunderbird Takes Off
The Mozilla visual identity team, which I'm lucky enough to play a small role in, has just released the new Thunderbird logo! Jon Hicks was the illustrator behind both this new logo and the Firefox logo released a few months ago. • I've been using Thunderbird as my primary mail client for the …
More Favourite Favicons
I've been keeping my eye out for more good favicons and I've found quite a few nice additions to the original collection. Again, let me know if there are any sites you'd recommend. • Choosing which favicons to include is obviously a really subjective process, but there are a few criteria that …
Local Exhibitions
If you're in or around Charlottetown in the next few weeks, there are some great art and graphic design exhibitions to be seen. On Saturday I was at the Confederation Centre of the Arts where they are still displaying a very diverse collection of photos by George S. Zimbel. They stretch back over …
Kid America Adventure Hour
Despite having now visited New York, I'm still not sure I quite get all of The Kid America Adventure Hour, but there are some hilariously entertaining and offensive short videos to be watched and a great cartoon illustration on the site. Apparently it's a radio show on East Village Radio. Also …
FireFox Oh Point Eight
I've been lucky enough to be involved in the recent rebranding process of Mozilla's Firefox project. When my cohort Steven Garrity was asked by the Mozilla organization to gather a team of designers to work on the rebranding of Firebird to Firefox a few months ago, I managed to kind of sneak in …
Posting Great Posters
In the past week or so I've happened to run across a number of great posters available online (some of them thanks to the great links over at Coudal Partners). Please feel free to add to this list with your own suggestions if you've seen something recently worth mentioning. • The Computerlove …
Hiroshi Yoshii
I was just looking for a piece of illustration to use for a project when I came across the work of Hiroshi Yoshii. Some of his drawings are fabulous. I also discovered that he illustrated the glum pear I've always liked on Mena Trott's weblog Not a Dollar Short. There is a whole collection of …