Archive for August, 2008

W-o-w

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Has anyone seen that? A beautiful animation over an interview that a 14-year-old Beatles fanatic named Jerry Levitan made with John Lennon. Apparently, it was also nominated for an Oscar for "Best Animated Short" at the 2008 Academy Awards.

Beautiful-a-day, interesting-a-day too

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

More of collections: in the "to the virtual home of the Wiedler family" you can find over 470 "book (design) stories" which means the pages, some spreads and some comments on the design and the history of each one, including the year (the innocents will see how today's "new" work ...

Beautiful-a-day

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Take a look at this interesting collector's item: hotel door hangers, from the the blogger Michael Lobowitz's grandfather. Funny to see how the language and visuals changes to say the same thing, according to the place they were found. Fun!

Interesting-a-day

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

There are things which are not actually beautiful, but extremely intriguing or fun or interesting. Like this article that notes - and questions - the new "trends" appearing in the world of graphic design [naming: balloons, spilt liquids and paper constructions]. I was talking to a friend the other day ...

Fantastic manual - or cookbook, panel, poster, etc

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

For the stand Fantastic Norway is presenting in Venice during the 2008 bienale, we decided to create a full pack of materials to be given to press and possible clients. We agreed the kit would include - t-shirts [the ones you saw here before] - flip-flops [sent to be manufactured a month ...

The final thing

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I redid the illustration I made for the +soma magazine in São Paulo and the final one is this:

3D - the mission

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Took me around 2 hours to figure out how to work with strange vectors at SketchUp today. But, I managed! (And I must say: I usually do).

Beautiful-a-day

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

The (whole) work of Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, two Brazilian "story tellers" who have just won the Eisner Awards, the Oscar of comics. I just posted their most recent image here, but their blog is worth not one, but constant visiting. If you understand portuguese, try this link.

Speaker

Friday, August 8th, 2008

I really would like to have one of those speak-ers by Sherwood Forlee. Does anyone know where (or how) to buy it?

Illustration

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Studies for a magazine article about desire lines and our own personal parks and connections. All paper cut + some adjustings with photoshop. I've been doing this for the last 2 days!! I will post it back when I have the final pdf with text, but now you can check ...