Archive for the 'design' Category

The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac

This book has been floating around the blog world and it looks impressive. It caters to NBA fans and people who appreciate the illustrations. It keeps it’s style editorial and just looks enjoyable to look through. The book releases Nov. 11th and for a really reasonable price.

Adobe TV’s Valo Feature

Jon Julio just got himself a little feature for Adobe TV’s series “The Creatives”. Pumped for this! You can check it out on their site and get a little insight on his day-to-day running Valo and being the dope dude that he’s always been.

Props to Jon for getting a little exposure outside of the normal, expected channels, and doing it with the class we’ve all become accustomed to.

hellohikimori


full screen audio visualizer built in papervision3d? hells yes.
http://www.hellohikimori.com/

Ten Back To School/Work Bags

I am a backpack/msg bag whore. I’m constantly looking for the most functional, sleek-looking bag that can cater my everyday needs wheter it was skating or school. Cool Hunting posted an article that introduces ten bags to cop for the new school year.

mark coleran - screen reel

Mark Coleran - Screen Showreel 06/2008 from Mark Coleran on Vimeo.

I believe mark has been featured before. But heck hes got really nice stuff in some huge movies.

Arlo + Valo

!!! two rollerbladers that the exclusives™ have much love for are getting together to do something great for rollerblading. mr. arlo eisenberg himself just posted this teaser on the franco blog (buy some goods while you’re there too) and i am SO down. this is what rollerblading needs… more attention to art, design, and fostering relationships for NEW executions of our old ideas. other skate companies take note!

jj and arlo, please consider this my personal formal request for 1 pair whenever they are ready.

Stefanie Posavec “On the Map”


so god-damned dope

Dean Kamen is the MAN!

From the all things digital conference.

flare facade

FLARE is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades
or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a
building to express, communicate and interact with its environment.”

This is truly awesome watch the video.

flare-facade.com

FAIL…

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“grant inbounds the ball to harper… he runs it to mid court… ”
“hands off to pippen, pumpfakes a 3, direct pass to jordan in the lane… ”
“wait.. that’s not jordan!??? this just in folks, there appears to be what looks like a court jester on the court! how’d he get on the floor? security is on the court carrying him out… no word on where jordan is. ”

seriously? this is what you do to “celebrate” the olympics? wow.

jordan brand recipe for success…. jordan VI (awesome), original white color base, (awesome), harlequin olympic color accents, patent leather upper, weird butterfly embroidery on the toe, annnnnd $150 price point… sigh. what’s difficult about making a white version of the DMP VI? white with gold… olympics.. come on.. not rocket science.

ASRD

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Our boy MSTRPLN is finally gettin some coverage for his ASRD project. E™ readers should be familiar with this as its been covered here and on the MSTRPLN blog.

Surly steppin’ up, I might as well drop the links. Thumbs up bro….

on Gizmodo

on TrendHunter

ASRD project page

MSTRPLN 

Twistori

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rad twitter visualisation, inspired by wefeelfine.

http://twistori.com/

VOTE…

if you hadn’t heard yet, my boys over at ONE magazine are holding a t-shirt design contest. they enllisted designers from all different corners of the inline world and had them design a tee for ONE. it didn’t have to include “ONE” or even their logo… it just had to be a cool shirt.

the submissions are in… check them out by clicking on the pic above, or HERE. the Exclusives™ got in on the fun too. we’ve got some submissions in there! atleast 3 that i know of, but for the sake of keeping it annonymous, you’ll have to figure it out on your own. vote for the one you would like them to produce now!

Graphic Design : the new basics

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http://www.gdbasics.com/

the affair

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neat little flash site the affair

60mm

Prada: trembled blossom

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When I found out that James Jean was doing some pieces for Prada, I was excited…not because I wanted to buy a Prada piece that he collaborated with, but instead wanted to see what he would do for them. He did a great job with it and you can see this animation where he did the illustrations for. You might want to download this to your ipod.

Off Register 2008

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Off register is a traveling show exhibiting experimental printmaking and a show I have been waiting for for the past 3 weeks or so. I was fortunate to see the show which gave me some inspo to hit the school screen printing studio, which reminds me that I need to pay for that fee. Fuck, that means I can’t buy that Hecox print that I’ve been meaning to buy there. Hmm, rent money or a print? Anyway, I have the photos on my flickr page.

Booyah!…and for all you Chicagoans, make a trip out to West Town and check out some prints…even buy a print or two.

AV-Aerie
200 W. Fulton
Chicago

Two Lines Align: Drawings and Graphic Design by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge

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I can’t stress enough how much I jock McFetridge and this is one of the reasons why I wish I were back living in LA. Big G and the veteran Ed Fella are having a show at the Redcat Gallery entitled Two Lines Align, an exhibition about “the evolution of graphic design in the context of massive shifts in our visual culture“. The opening reception is this Wednesday and if you could make it out there and meet the artists (if they are there) I will award you the Lucky Bastard award. In fact, I will create you a “Lucky Bastard” 24 x 36 screen printed poster (this part I am serious).

via Cool Hunting

Tinker

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Complex mag has an interview with tinker hatfield. Seriously if you dont know who tinker is then do yourself a favor and get to reading.

read it here