The Visual Language of Herbert Matter

We recently stumbled upon the Grain Edit and The Art of the Title Sequence posts on the Visual Language of Herbert Matter. From the website, “Herbert Matter was a man who seemingly fit many lives into one by excelling in the creative disciplines of design, photography and film. The documentary The Visual Language of Herbert [...]

Letter Cult: Best Custom Letters 2009

Letter Cult recently compiled a list of of the Best Custom Letter Forms of 2009. The artwork above is by Jessica Hische, who we’re big fans of. The list is a nice roundup of innovative design techniques and a good snapshot of what designers are doing in the present day. Worth checking out!

Advertising 2009 vs. Advertising 1980

We found this graphic floating out in the blogosphere and used it for various strategy conversations on projects happening around the office and thought it’d be good to share with all of you.

Genevieve Mercatante: BuzzWorthy

We’ve been impressed recently with the work of hot, up-and-comer Genevieve Mercatante. She is a Portland, Ore.-based artist with an intimate and disciplined body of work. Since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002, her work has taken the form of painting, performance, and new media. Recent video and performance work has included Burglar Eroticism, [...]

Superstition: Art That Stands in Awe

We were able to check out a preview of the Superstition art show at Nemo while attending the Who Killed Social Media (#whokilledsm) event on Thurdsay June 4th. We were particularly impressed by the work of Aaron Piland (featured above). Via his website, “Aaron is an image creator living on spaceship earth. He believes in [...]

The Latest From Vincent Callebaut Architects

We’re huge fans of conceptual, futuristic architecture. The NASA Ames Research Center’s renderings of space colonies from the 1970’s come to mind. As well, the work of the influential Italian architectural group superstudio.
Check out the latest from Vincent Callebaut Architects, a group who regularly produce far reaching architectural concepts. Their latest proposal is an ecological [...]

Greg Beauchamp’s States United

Via Creativity Online, we recently discovered Greg Beauchamp’s States United Poster. Another great concept (shown in more detail on Flickr) from a clever and talented creative. If you recall, Beauchamp was also responsible for the McCain Dog Poo flags during the 2008 election. He’s also the executive producer of the advertising documentary Art & Copy. [...]

Stealthy Rabbit

Check out the amazing animal heads made by Stealthy Rabbit, an artist from Brighton in the United Kingdom. There’s foxes, birds, zebras, rabbits, owls and all sorts of other recycled masterpieces. They are all made from recycled materials such as cardboard boxes, newspaper and magazines. A new form of taxidermy!

We ♥ Ryan Robinson

Check out the energetic work of Ryan Robinson, a freelance photographer based in Chicago. He specializes in people and conceptual portraits. His style is crisp, bright and quirky. We discovered him through Design is Kinky and have been following his work ever since.
Ryan is currently working on two books: The Snowbirds is a collection of [...]