A great little project that reminds me a bit of the old Spirograph my dad got me when I was a kid. From Robert Howsare. Drawing Apparatus from Robert Howsare on Vimeo. Tags: Art, Design, Robert Howsare, Spirograph, Turntables
I’ve never heard of the band Dry the River before. But after seeing the video below, I’m certainly going to give them a listen. 3D horses are always a great way to generate some interest in just about anything! Tags: 3D, Dry the River, posters
Tags: Enemy Mine, Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort, movie posters
Every book designer has an idea that didn’t make the cut, no matter how great it was. I know I do. There are a lot of people who need to sign off on them: publishers, authors, marketing departments, agents, to name a few. This means there are a lot of great book covers sitting around [...]
This is awesome. I’d love to do something like this sometime. (via John Gall’s blog) Tags: 30 Posters 30 Days, movie posters, Office of Letters and Light
Has anyone else noticed a trend in type-over-the-face movie posters recently? Seeing the new one-sheet for Thor over the weekend got me to thinking about it a bit. I can remember seeing a poster for Michael Clayton back in 2007 and actually liking the way it looked with the “The Truth Can Be Adjusted” [...]
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney unveiled his new logo today. Apparently, it’s remarkably similar to the Aquafresh logo. I can see the resemblance when I look at it. But to get a real sense of what everyone is talking about, I had to add a toothbrush. That made it perfectly clear. Tags: Aquafresh, Logo, Mitt Romney
There is a very fantastic blog about book design and many other fun and interesting things called Greater Than or Equal To, and today they feature and equally fun and interesting interview with book designer extraordinaire, Coralie Bickford-Smith, whose work will make you wish you were a better designer. There are two great videos to [...]
I’m a little late to this, but Design Observer has been running baby photos of designers in a lead-up to Mother’s Day next month. Today’s image is the last one and it looks like no one has hit the nail on the head yet. If you know you’re designers (even when they’re babies), take a [...]
I love book design, and I love movies. Now, these beautiful new covers from Megan Wilson and Evan Gaffney marry the two things perfectly. Vintage is releasing new editions of James M. Cain’s books-turned-films in the upcoming months and the jackets look like they belong more on the Movie Title Stills Collection website than the [...]