Art of the Title

Titles website

Virtual Realities by NL Architects
www.dezeen.com

Sleevage

Intersting website documenting tht brief/research/creation processes involved in some of the most arresting sleeve designs out there.

Birdcage thaumatrope

Lo fi animations.

Pop-up Typogrphy

French designers have come up with this pop-up typogrphy books. Check out the video.

Golden Shit Awards

A website dedicated to all the dog owners who don't bother to clean up there dogs business after they're finished.

Wordle

Generate your own word “word clouds”. You can also print out the files as PDF with everything in lovely scalable vectors.

Exciting designs from dcoy studio

Ashtray

GTF - Frieze Art Fair

To fully appreciate GTF’s promotional campaign for the Frieze Art Fair which takes place each year in London’s Regent’s Park, it’s useful (and delightful) to know how and why decisions were made: the stenciled letter logotype, for example, was inspired by the stamped labels on shipping containers used to transport the art to the fair. Additionally, rather than focusing on the art itself, each year the campaign’s photographic images highlight a different aspect of the park—its ducks and squirrels and soccer-playing or picnicking visitors. In 2006 GTF commissioned an aerial photography company to capture high-resolution aerial images of the park using a radio-controlled helicopter, fitted with a radio-controlled camera on an anti-vibration mount. The resulting images expose a usually inaccessible and other worldly view of aspects of park life. Particularly beautiful is the shot of empty boats on the pond. The low-level aerial viewpoint turns them into flattened abstract shapes and reveals the secret concord of their colored interiors, a pleasure usually reserved only for the birds.

Jack Pierson

Jack studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books.

I love the wordplay sculptures he makes.

There was a bit of a legal barney between the gallery that exhibited Piersons work and a NY fashion shop display designer. So I think the images of JP stuff is are little thin on the ground on the internet.

Indian Street art Ephemera

Some really beautiful (if i can use this phrase Julia) street art collected by Meena Kadri.

Recycle Meow!

Paper Alphabet

Sonya Dyakova created the type by hand from folded and cut paper to use in Phaidon’s recently-published Sculpture Today.

Christmas Bash

Celebrity

The Christmas Special of Extras saw the final outing of Andy Millman (Ricky Gervais) on our screens and served up an excellent treaty on celebrity culture. You can't help thinking there's a little of Gervais and co-writer in Andy's words.

Gervais appears as Andy in a mock Celebrity Big Brother and is asked by another frothing fame hungry contestant on the show if he would come to her "Hello" sponsored wedding. Enjoy.

Iraqi ballot paper design

Although more than a year ago now here's an interesting story about the Iraqi ballot papers.

The 2006 elections in Iraq presented ballot designers with a unique problem. More than 200 parties or individuals registered to be listed on the ballot, a fact that created a typesetting dilemma for the one-page design. But each party or individual who registered also had to supply a logo by which they could be identified by illiterate voters.

Some logos were turned away, including a drawing of a rifle, a picture of a mass grave, and a representation of a Koran surrounded by a halo.

The result is a very involved ballot; a sample of the 2005 ballot is shown here. More than 72 percent of eligible voters registered so they could put their own very personal "logos"-their fingerprints-on record so they could vote.

frohe Weihnachten

Happy Christmas to everyone from Julia and Kevin. Are you feeling the warmth of the little baby jesus deep down in in you heart?

Bethlehem

Graffiti artist Banksy has set up his annual Santa's Ghetto in Bethlehem this year, where visitors will be able to buy his work until Christmas Eve. His stencils on the controversial wall separating Jerusalem from Bethlehem have also inspired other artists to make their marks.

Pentagram's Brandspanking

Interactive designer Andy Foulds’ studio has produced a series of Flash animations based on Angus Hyland’s logo design for Brandspanking, a London-based media production company that specialises in branded content. The animations play during the introduction to their website, also designed by Foulds.

Angus Hyland designed the Brandspanking identity in 2007 with design assistant Zara Moore.