If you fancy yourself as the next Banksy and would enjoy a virtual walk around San Francisco, spray can in hand, then check out Wild Style City.
Created by Earthmine, it works a bit like Google Street View but uses higher resolution images. You can go around tagging the buildings without getting banged up by the [...]
Blackpool. Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that the college degree courses there have produced some very talented people over the years, especially when it comes to design – not that I’m a biased ex-student or anything…
This year’s all singing all dancing annual Blackpool College degree show is a big one, not to [...]
Quite a good showcase of award winners from the Worldwide Logo Design Annual Awards 2008. Click here for a look.
Stumbled across Asako Narahashi’s work on booooooom. These images are taken from her series ‘half awake and half asleep in the water’.
Narahashi apparently goes out into the sea off various coastal sites in Japan, and floats chest deep in the water taking the shots facing back to shore. An article on the Yossi Milo Gallery website gives a good explanation, ‘The [...]
The clean and functional style common to most airline safety cards works to break linguistic barriers, but in doing so also makes for some interesting design, layouts and illustrations.
Nicking them off planes isn’t cool though, so click here to have a look at this group pool on Flickr that contains a few hundred images of [...]
Shepard Fairey, creator of the ‘OBEY Giant’ brand is one of today’s most influential street artists. His work is known for its propagandistic treatment of bold colours, simplistic graphical style and political messages.
I was lucky enough to be in Los Angeles in the weeks before last years US Presidential Election and one particular piece of [...]
Did anyone see the two-part documentary ‘Swarms: Natures Incredible Invasions’ that was on BBC one earlier this month? I finally got round to watching it the other day and was fascinated by the amazing aerial displays that the thousands of starlings (known as a ‘murmuration’) make above the city of Rome each autumn and winter.
Photographer [...]
Designer of the typeface, ITC Avant Garde and probably the most influential graphic designer of the 20th century, Herb Lubalin, best known for his experimentation with typography and editorial layout, is paid tribute to on this great site that showcases some of his most inspiring work. Its hard to believe that some of his work [...]