A look at the upcoming documentary, The Visual Language of Herbert Matter. Go and watch the teaser for the film. Can't wait. 9.30
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Worldwide Moment is a simultaneous photography event where participants will each take a photograph of their world, their life, or their story at the moment of 10.10.10 at 10:10 am GMT. 9.30
"It is possible for abstraction to be a diagram of itself as is proven by these works. The objects describe themselves best, much better than I can." Some very interesting work by John Tremblay. I love Stacked, which is paint on shaped canvas. 9.28
Another lovely photoset to check out: iPhoneography by Keith Weaver. 9.28
Some great vernacular signs from Goran Patlejch's Flickr photostream. 9.28
Interesting playing card designs by Felix Blommestijn. 9.28
Paris, rien que l'invisible. Infrared photography of Paris. 9.28
"So as I walked past this spot for the zillionth time recently, it occurred to me that there are vacant buildings with no discernible future all over town — all over lots of towns. Wouldn't it be cool to create completely fictional, but imaginative and exciting, "artist renderings" of their hypothetical futures, too? And post those renderings on the actual vacant buildings?" Hypothetical Development. 9.27
I enjoy the fact that, in this world, there are sets of felt curated by special guests. 9.27
Subway Science. 9.27
Awful Library Books, for your Monday inspiration. Via CP. 9.27
People who became nouns. 9.24
A photographic series of Junk Drawers, from artist Brittny Badger. 9.24
102 year old lens on a Canon 5D Mark II DSLR. Awesome. Via Daring Fireball. 9.23
The Future of the Book. IDEO imagines what new types of connections and experiences might be built around books with thoughtful digital design and innovation. 9.22
The Gastrotypographicalassemblage, Lou Dorfsman's famous handmade wooden typographic wall, has been restored and is being exhibited at the London Design Festival. Read more in Speak Up's earlier article about this icon of design. 9.21
Modern Photography, 1965. 9.21
Almost more photographic than filmic, Aoife McArdle's video for The Isles by Little Comets. Via It's Nice That. 9.21
Work by Will Rogan. 9.21
The Lost World's Fairs project, created by Friends of Mighty to showcase IE9's support of the Web Open Font Format. 9.20
Browsing the collection at This is Display. 9.20
The sharp and very extensive Adobe CS5 branding system is certainly worth some reflection, and I'm interested to know that it was done in Fireworks. Veerle Pieters also shares some insight in this piece about its development. 9.17
"I guess we thought, let's do an experiment. Let's take a hundred cats, release them in IKEA. And let's actually do it for real at night when the store is closed and let's see what happens." Also worth checking out, the "making of" video here. 9.17
The Found Notes pool on Flickr. I'd better get busy and add my collection. Great stuff. 9.17
All of the 2010 MLB uniforms, pixel-style. Always did love the Astros in red. 9.17
Rich Staats plans to fly around the country on a JetBlue pass for 30 days, using social media to interview the web's most interesting brands offline, then armwrestle them. Here's his journal. 9.15
It's always amazing to spend some time with Al Cooper's The World of Logotypes. Online, Eric Carl has posted many sections of this classic reference here for your browsing and brainstorming needs. 9.15
Cycling videos from Rapha on Vimeo. Here's their latest post. Via Weightshift. 9.14
Lovely stuff. Rock Paper Show. 9.14
A collection of Czech matchbox labels. 9.14
FREITAG is always up to something new and interesting. Like printing a daily paper. 9.13
"But, sometimes, an old color photo brings a distant image to life and produces something kind of special. The best ones make their subjects and their surroundings seem far more real and intimate." Color, photos, and one fuzzy little boy in a field. 9.9
Brand New weighs in on the new icon for iTunes 10. 9.9
Czech-born American designer Michael Engelmann (1928-1966) possessed a strong signature style – simple and bold, utilizing san serif type with minimal imagery, often photography. Via Monoscope. 9.8