New York has a history of reactive ‘ad-jacking’, from the legendry Ron English to the likes of Violator of the Regime. However there is a new kid on the block, simply calling himself as ‘Poster Boy’. His on the spot improvised mash-ups reminds me of the cut-and-paste aesthetic of the 70’s punk era.
Of course, defacing …
Those lovely people that are make lots of money, The Royal Mint, are running a super competition to design the 2012 edition of the 50p coin. The competition is open all of us who are over 13 years, UK residents and the lucky winner will see their design on the backs of 50p pieces used …
The uber bright, very inspiring former Forrester analyst, Peter Kim has aggregated a list of 2009 predictions from 14 of the brightest and best social media thought leaders out there and has produced a really amazing year-end artifact in the form of a downloadable free PDF. Read it, enjoy it and look forward to 2009.
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A lovely little blog compiling images of our great capitals shop fronts. Beautiful, sad and enough creative spelling and typographic disasters to make even our most hard line type junkies smile. Of course, not all of London looks like this, some parts I hear are getting electricity and running water soon. www.londonshopfronts.com
Here at Brightenup, we all adored Helvetica, the feature-length film about typography, graphic design, visual culture and anything Helvetica. But why make a film about Helvetica I here you cry? Well, for starters it’s everywhere. You’ve probably already enjoyed a little Helvetica today. It probably informed you which train to catch or tried to sell …
In life it’s all too easy to get caught up in the little stuff, the details and totally miss the bigger picture. The world is a changing, that much is obvious, but what isn’t so obvious is how incredibly massive the change is. The video is titled… Did You Know and is a shorter version …
Some people are saying Global Warming is really crappy, other people are saying it might be kind of cool and the religious nutters are saying its god rewarding us for removing the ozone layer. Whatever you believe about Global Warming those eco-conscious bankers at the lovely HSBC are helping to raise awareness (and not the …
Social networking is an accumulation of all our contacts. However, do you interact with these people regularly, or are you letting your virtual rolodex accumulate dust? Do you observe from the sideline or do you jump in with both feet and have something to say? LinkedIn, Facebook and the lovely Twitter are now simply part …
Most designers use typography to present information in a rather static way — after all, it has to be read by users. However, now thanks to Face37 it doesn’t have to be like that any longer and typography junkies can really play with fonts.
Type Trumps rocks and is simply genius. Different typefaces are attributed with …
It’s the real god damn thing. The anticipated ‘reassuringly God-free atheist bus campaign’ launches soon. Intended to counter the now commonplace religious advertising, the slogan “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life“, does raise a wry smile. Personally I’m unsure if I dislike evangelical atheism, as much as I dislike evangelical …
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