pretty cool t-shirt design!

from Obnx Mute

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soopah cool work by artist and designer Rhys Owens

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Nokta . from Onur Senturk on Vimeo.

This is from Turkish motion graphics director and art director Onur Senturk.

I think it’s pretty rad, although I generally think motion graphics artists are douches.

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just wanted to show you how much i care, baby

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From Jailbreak:

London-based art director, Simon Attwater, takes hand-scribbled shopping lists and turns them into typographic treats for his, “Shopping Losts” series.

So funny

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downloadable, printable stickers from design-police.org

radicool. dammit did i just say that?

well it is, find out more:

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from the portfolio of Kaloian Toshev

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Rob Forbes gives this talk at TED.com about ways of seeing. He raises a point about design saying it’s increasingly difficult to find design that represents a unique culture, regarding globalization. He also has a lot of interesting photographs in this presentation that show how design and culture are entwined.

From TED.com:

Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, found art, urban patterns — this slideshow will open your eyes to the world around you.

Rob Forbes is a really inspiring person. Read more about him >>

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checkout the website of Rubens LP

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Check out the video. Pretty hilarious. It’s funny on purpose as douchebaggy as this site may come off at first glance. Very Zoolander.

http://www.designerslashmodel.com/

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art on the blast doors of nuclear shelters from the ‘ol days of being scared of being nuked. glad those days are over. whew!

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Documenting really bad Photoshop work in the professional publication world. Some really funny ones…

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http://sirehdancengkeh.com/?p=385

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i know i moved toward it in the design of this blog. yeah well, i’m an idiot.
this guy has a compelling presentation on where the web 2.0 look went off the deep end.

http://www.octopusstudios.com/

so … is this actually more enjoyable for fish?

http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/01/overcoming_blankcanvasphobia/

“Staring at a blank canvas in Photoshop (or your preferred graphics program) feels the same way as standing at the edge of a cliff waiting to go over. You’re safely strapped in, but the idea of going from standing upright to lying on your back with feet planted on the side of a rock incline is terribly daunting. But once you’ve gone from vertical to horizontal, the rest is easy, and even thoroughly enjoyable.”

Some good pointers, some obvious ones. 1 thing is for sure though, blank canvases are daunting. He did leave one tried and true method of overcoming ‘blankcanvasphobia’ and that’s booze. Click the link to see the  7 suggestions from that blog post.

http://www.typeneu.com/

I love this shirt

here’s the original post >>. Thx aprilini!

Here’s my own drunken octopus drawing:

i designed this party flyer for … a party. it’s at azul in san francisco

Here is the back: