Category Archives: Design/Illustration

Video: Brandmark Impressions by 5-year old

By Amanda | Published: February 8, 2012

I’ve been obsessing over logos for a few projects I’ve been working on in school. My lecturer shared this cute video from a designer going through a series of brandmarks with his daughter to get her perspective on their meaning. It’s kinda scary how she recognized the Starbucks logo. Talk about getting in the consumer [...]

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Dancing, Dancing, DANCING!

By Amanda | Published: February 8, 2012

A series of dance prints from Brazilian designer Niege Borges. The story that inspired them: In 1518, a bunch of people from a french town called Stransbourg were affected by something called dancing mania. It began with one lady named Frau Troffea dancing in the street and end up with, more or less, 400 people [...]

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Logos by Matt Lehman

By Amanda | Published: February 6, 2012
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Simple yet highly effective logos from designer/illustrator Matt Lehman. Top to bottom – Blood: Water Mission, General Mills: Connect, Dimes for Darfur, Pray for Hope

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Video: Word as Image

By Amanda | Published: January 12, 2012

I’ve been really busy making some changes in preparation on delivering on my 2012 goals. These including the harrowing task of looking for a new apartment, so posts may be spotty this month. I did want to share this great video one of my lecturers shared in class this week. The challenge here was for [...]

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New Music: dRes – Wild Produce

By Amanda | Published: January 6, 2012
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Bright and colorful artwork on the new album Wild Produce by producer dRes. The album features tracks from some of my favorites like Homeboy Sandman and Tanya Morgan. It’s available on January 17th, but you can listen to a couple of tracks here. Great beats. via Okayplayer

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Beyonce and Complex Typography

By Amanda | Published: January 6, 2012
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Remember Beyonce’s awesome Aug/Sep 2011 issue of Complex?  Made recently posted a link to the interview with the artist/designer responsible for the artwork, Ebon Heath. It turns out that the text-based pieces you see wrapping Beyoncé on the cover and the inside spread are actually physical sculptures that Heath created—not 3D text renderings or altered [...]

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Scott Albrecht’s Moment in Time

By Amanda | Published: December 21, 2011
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From Scott’s Flickr page: “Each of the four pieces in the Moments in Time series signify four very different points of influence within my life. The triangles within these pieces are part of a system that represent 8 numbers per piece that relate to the date the piece was inspired by (mm/dd/yyyy). All numbers are [...]

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Live What You Love

By Amanda | Published: December 15, 2011

I love this time-lapsed video from Brooklyn based designer and custom chalk letterer Dana Tanamachi.  I can’t believe she does all of this by hand.  Amazing talent. More of her videos are available on Vimeo.

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The Hip Hop Coloring Book

By Amanda | Published: December 14, 2011
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My homie and past Color Muse James Shields (a.k.a Creative Shields) has released an amazing coloring book just in time for the holidays.  The book includes fun activities such as color by number exercises, mazes and word searches.  It’s volume one of an ongoing series covering the Birth of Hip Hop (’77 – ’84).  I [...]

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Video: Hero

By Amanda | Published: December 13, 2011

The making of “Hero,” Miguel Endara’s drawing of his father composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots.  This is sooooo tedious. I’m going to take it upon myself and rename this video “The Audacity of Patience”.

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