shelf of routine thoughts (or nonsense) | Ebee | shelf-ish | I always believe that to write down thoughts counts as a ghost of done. These are collection of what I see, what inspires me, and I share stuff you might (also) like to know.
What a lovely bookshelf! Brainpicker has variant of books ranged from arts to science on its Bookpickings corner. Apart from its clean and sleek design, this is one of a good sources to browse inspiring books. A definite fav!
May
Creative Director: Year Zero is a compilation of stories from various CDs about how they made the switch from mere “creative” to “creative director”, and the challenges faced and lessons they learned in the process.
Take the job that scares you is one of the advice given between lines in this book. Should keep this one on the shelf to feed the hungry mind.
Need to clean up the mess inside the machine and found folder set of Andy Warhol to secure my sanity. Better things started with clean and organized mind. Nods!
I’ve just bought this book yesterday, The Wisdom of Bees by Michael O’Malley. This probably the first handpicked business book I chose myself among others on the shelf. I’ve been reading quarter part of it and it surely gets interesting.
I was browsing on video mapping and projection that has Islamic value for one of our campaign idea and stumbled upon this good finding. Obscura Digital made a beautiful and stunning projection toward Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, in conjunction of celebrating UEA National Day back in the year 2011. Watch its full mind-blowing show - 44 projectors with a combined brightness of 840.000 lumens to cover a surface 600 ft wide x 351 ft high! Amazingly done.
Oh, it’s UEA btw, they deserve all the golden execution, don’t they?
Witty IKEA direct mail by Leo Rosa Borges demonstrates how easy it is to decorate your home with Ikea flat pack designs.
Daniel Norris is a creative freelance graphic designer with eight years experience in and around London agencies. Check his amazing and single-color print-like movie poster redesign pieces here. It’s fantastic how he turned iconic scenes into graphic icons for the posters.
Goddam son, Don Draper on 8 Bit! This is madness! Playing as himself to save the agency after Lucky Strike betrayal… ah sounds like I can relate to that.
Mad Men is back and along with it comes a host of great content, including this weirdly wonderful 8-Bit YouTube “Choose Your Own Adventure” style Advergame that is getting some solid traction. It’s less than 5 days old and already over 300,000 people have played the game (or at least started it), plenty of the 40+ “level” videos geting 50,000+ views and even 20,000+ views a few levels deep.
March
Food and design never fail to amuse me! This French Food designer, Emilie de Griottes put together these dessert tarts that resemble Pantone color swatches. It’s color you can eat right up! Do check her site to here to see more of her artistic palette culinaire.
I have never found a heavy attraction toward a font before, until I finally realized how beautiful Gotham is. I found myself too late to get into it, since its most notable appearance on Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign back in 2008 and also its existence since 2000.
Gotham is classified as family of geometric sans serif digital typefaces designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones more than a decade ago under Hoefler & Frere-Jones Foundry. His inspiration for the typeface came from time spent walking block-by-block through Manhattan with a camera to find source material, and he based the font on the lettering seen in older buildings, especially the sign on the Eighth Avenue facade of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
“I suppose there’s a hidden personal agenda in the design to preserve those old pieces of New York that could be wiped out before they’re appreciated. Having grown up here, I was always fond of the ‘old’ New York and its lettering.”
The lettering that inspired this typeface originated from the style of 1920s era sans-serifs like Futura where “Type, like architecture, like the organization of society itself, was to be reduced to its bare, efficient essentials, rid of undesirable, local or ethnic elements.” This theme was found frequently in Depression-era type in both North America and Europe, particularly Germany.
The usage of Gotham were subtle to me, even when it laid boldly on movie title like Inception and Moon or new logos of Discovery Channel and History Channel. It even shouted loud on HOPE poster by Shepard Fairey for Obama’s election campaign. Ah, I just love this type from its book to medium to bold - that I finally use this to complete the identity style for my own Letterplatters’ deliverables together with Dutch & Harley. A perfect pair indeed.
