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Bonnie & Clyde by Pearly Yon

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The Squeeze Juice Bar Identity by Laura Pursel

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Topo Chico identity, logo and packaging design.

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"We have our hands full with digital devices these days, but there's something to be said for the tactile sensation of writing with a stylus rather than tapping on a screen or keyboard with our fingers. After all, when we write out characters, our writinghas character. You can give your keyboards a bit of a break and give your handwriting a, well, hand, with Wacom's celebration of National Handwriting Day."

Visit the link for videos and how-to's.

#good to know #hand lettering #national handwriting day

quote from Lucien Zayan of The Invisible Dog

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As an individual who has only actively been living in NY for the last 7 months, I find this to be a very profound statement. If you are a friend, New York will furnish you with a large group of friends. If you give to it, It will give to you. When I moved here back in June, I only had a few belongings and savings to live from. I gave and gave in the form of internships, and meeting and talking to people. In return, I have been provided opportunities to learn more things, meet more people and make a little money.

If you come to New York expecting things to just happen, you'd be dead wrong. Things will only happen if you help them happen. Living in New York is a lot like a relationship with a person: you get out of it what you give into it, to an extent.

Happy Friday & stay warm y'all,

—Josh

#creative mornings #talks #quote #cmnyc

BALLO: A STOOL FOR ACTIVE SITTING

Inspired by the exercise ball, Don Chadwick designed Ballo, for Humanscale, to replace your old boring office chair. Ballo is a multipurpose stool that keeps you moving by encouraging low intensity physical activity. Similar to the exercise ball in that way, because there’s a rounded bottom, which means you must use your legs and core to stay upright.

At just 13.5 pounds, Ballo is super lightweight so you can move it around to where you need it.

It’s available in 7 colors: Black, Red, Gray, Green, Sky Blue, Yellow, and Blue.

via (DesignMilk)

When we first set up our home office, we got some really uncomfortable, yet cheap, Ikea office chairs. I've never hated something more in my life, okay? I would definitely get a couple of these Ballo stools to have around the house, and eventually our office. Not having a chair back isn't a deterrent, and I think it would make everyone more productive.

A LIGHT INSPIRED BY THE MOON’S SURFACE

Taking inspiration from the moon’s crater-filled surface, Constantin Bolimond designed a concept lamp called Armstrong Light Trap. The orb-like light is covered in various sized holes, mimicked after the textured surface of the moon, that become filled with cork cylinders. Remove whichever cylinders you want to reveal more light.

Overall brightness can be adjusted depending on how many holes you open up and close.

Inside the orb are energy-efficent, warm white LED lights, which can be run by a battery or power supply network.

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I've really wanted to find some new lighting for the apartment, and this is absolutely amazing. There are few reasons why I find this so appealing. First, it's beautiful and white—few things make me happier than pretty white furniture or fixtures. Second, energy efficient bright white LED's that can be powered by a battery means not being bound by the location of power plugs! Definitely going to look into getting one of these in the near future.

#design #lighting #design-mlk

Tattly recently started a new campaign called “Tattly Does Good”. They connect artists with not-for-profit organizations to create a Tattly which then will raise awareness and funds. In this case Tattly connected charity: water with artist Sean Tulgetske and the result is this design, called The Craziest Thing. 80% of the proceeds will go directly towards clean and safe drinking water in developing nations. You can do nothing, or you can wear this Tattly and feel great about it.

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If there's one thing we support, it's non-profit organizations. This is just fantastic to see Tattly initiating a campaign to pair artists with non-profits to generate compelling, creative temporary tattoos to raise funds for those organizations. The explosion of popularity with temporary tattoos is definitely due in part to Tina and the birth of Tattly.

#design #temporary tattoos #tattly #swissmiss #charity water

BE A CAT PLAYHOUSE ARCHITECT WITH BLOCKS

Poopy Cat (best name ever?) has recently launched and successfully funded their newest creation, BLOCKS within 5 days. BLOCKS is a modular package that contains beams, cubes, a tunnel, bridge, on ramp, and two types of connectors so you can easily build a personalized playhouse for your cat.

Made out of recycled materials, it is 100% biodegradable. Despite how lightweight it is, the house is solid and can carry the weight of any cat.

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Have you ever wanted to make a sweet cat tree for your crazy adventurous cats? Look no further! (Friends with cats, I'm looking at you.) I almost want to get a cat just to have a good reason to buy this kit.

#design #modular #design-milk #cat tree #diy

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You are your own teacher. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

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This is absolutely amazing.

If I ever meet this man, I want to pick his brain. Book arts on it's own accord is a time consuming, intensive process. But this takes the cake. Would really love to get back into the book arts studio soon. I have quite a lot of hours earned for studio time at the Center for Book Arts and Dieu Donné.

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Isometric by Manolo Frausto

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Abosolutely love this!

These letters remind me of the studies I did during undergrad regarding the Penrose triangle and other similar 'impossible' shapes. The artist responsible for these is quite talented. Inspires me to get back to my own perspective drawings. Similarly related the iPhone game Monument Valley which relies on the manipulation of two point perspective to solve the puzzles.

#lettering #typography #perspective #impossible figures

This installment of New Voices features the work of Louisiana-native Silas Breaux. His most recent installation, Dwelling, consists of a collection of wooden frames enveloped in waxed relief prints. The work is on display at the LSU Museum of Art through March and is part of Prospect 3+ Notes Upriver, a regional extension of the International Biennial. According to Breaux, “the forms recall the collapsed buildings of my grandfather’s childhood home outside of Thibodaux, Louisiana, which have been reduced to little more than abstracted geometric shapes and are slowly being reclaimed by the surroundings. The wooden frames are enveloped in relief prints of wood grain, printed in white then coated in beeswax.”

A couple of things about this work: He was doing some great stuff back in 2012 at the SGCI Printmaking conference in New Orleans, and still is. Sculptural printmaking is an area that remains, to my knowledge, largely unexplored. At least by traditional printmakers. Part of me feels these would look better being lit from the inside.

#sculture #printmaking #south #geometric #j #printeresting

These 3d-printed zoetrope sculptures were designed by John Edmark, and they only animate when filmed under a strobe light or with the help of a camera with an extremely short shutter speed. He shares about the project:

These are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If you count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always Fibonacci numbers. For this video, rather than using a strobe, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed (1/4000 sec) in order to freeze the spinning sculpture.

If you happen to have a 3D printer handy, you can find instructions on how to make these over on Instructables.

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If you haven't caught these yet, now's your chance to look. Maybe even give it a go at making them. To see someone using the fibonacci numbers, and creating great, mesmerizing sculptures is just visually orgasmic. I may try to convince the guys at Nooka to print out a small scale version of one of these.

#design #math #3d #j

BASE, a design firm out of San Francisco, just recently set up shop and for their launch, they released their first three pieces – Object 001, 002, and 003. The new objects, desk accessories, are made with Polystone, a material that has the weight of ceramic with some of the same resilience you have with plastic. (via Design Milk)

I absolutely love this collection of desk accessories. Perhaps its the color options, albeit limited, perhaps its the materials, it might even be the forms. I generally don't like to keep too much in cups on my desk, for fear it might just dump over and spill everywhere.

#design #Industrial Design #forms #orange #desk #j