Thinking with Type

Thinking with Type… sexy time… abandon building… 3 things I would have never put together.

From local photographer, Jay Parkinson.

Interesting Links

A few links to keep you occupied, from the wacky internet archives of Danielle's computer...

http://www.yousaytoo.com/user/lovely/5287 An annual report with heat activated ink.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ A serious collection of maps.

http://www.design-police.org/ Stickers to come later, I'm sure.

http://blog.kavefish.com/archive/art/ron-mueck-hyperrealist-sculptor.html Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor.

http://www.adinochang.com/archives/chinese-culture-versus-german-culture.html Illustrative comparison between Chinese and German culture.

Look, I'm contributing!

Taco Bag

I found some cool food bags at my paper store of choice in Brunswick, Ohio. I made scans if you are interested and I have a few real bags for those inclined to own actual Mexican food ephemera.

Whats going on here?

The domestication of the goat…

Smithsonian Natural History Museum, DC.

Double Dagger review in Pitchfork

Check it out.

The States

Like Sufjan Stevens, this designer is creating work dedicated to each of the 50 states—only by way of very cool illustrations, rather than songs. I love this one, and can't wait to see what he does with Tennessee.

Welcome to My Home

From our friends at Cranbrook

Whoa!

From today's design observer; click to see more.

Worst Album Covers of the Year

If only we could be this good at photoshop art.

20 Worst Album Covers

Ellen's house . . .

. . . is on design*sponge! It's very cool, of course, and I'm insanely jealous of her Blow Up poster:

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/01/sneak-peek-ellen-lupton-and-abbott-miller.html

J.K. Rowling’s handmade book

Sotheby’s auctioned one of seven copies of J.K. Rowlings The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Amazon purchased a copy for about 2M pounds. Each copy was hand drawn and written by Rowling herself.

Mystery Book Drop

Check out this link to Book Crossing. It's this very cool international catch and release/scavenger-hunt book thing that I found out about over the break. You can either register any book you are done with on the site, then leave it somewhere a new reader might be able to find it (park bench, a cubby in some coffee shop, etc); or, you can go to the link for your city and see what free books are out and about for you to find. It's a fun, nifty, sneaky thing to do, and I thought y'all might get into it:

http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Book Thing

This book about Jane Pauley is probably my new favorite find—it's so ugly and ridiculous it's almost cool . . . almost

Keep the snuff romantic, kids.

This is from the fourth floor of Brown from earlier this semester.

From Morocco with Love

I received an interesting email from a friend of mine in Morocco in which he encouraged me to "leave MICA now and come to Fes to finish studying design and type." I'm not sure if this is what studying design is like in Fes or if this is what I'd be designing.

Mini-Robot Tools

Flickr Miniature synthasizers
for tiny robots…
(from Design Observer)

Kim's Giant Robot

Kim's small robot has been upgraded to extra-super medium as a smaller model is now available.

Happy 2008!

This is, well, there honestly aren't words to describe this video my brother sent me. Just click the pic and give it a look.

Thank you for being a "friend"

From a used bookstore in AZ.