Robert Samuel Hanson’s illustrations may be simple, but his wit and colors are what make his work stand out.
Gestalten Interview with Ken Barber of House Industries.
love this!!!!!
I really liked this 8-minute video on the inner workings of the NY Times Interactive Graphics Department. I had no idea they did such amazing work! This inspires me to dig around the nytimes.com site a little more.
In an interview with The Atlantic, the designers recommended these books from Gestalten:
• Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design*
• Turning Pages: Editorial Design for Print Media*
• Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language
Read the accompanying article here.
(* I really want these books! I saw them at the Breda Graphic Design Museum and regret not picking them up then.)
I AM IN LOVE with these modular, triangle-based pieces of furniture. I wish I could get an estimate on some of the shelving!
“T.SHELF (Triangular shelf) is a modular system that can be built into multiple shapes with various functions.”
More here: J1studio.com/furniture/tshelf/
FF Chartwell is a typeface that generates graphs for you! I’ve never seen anything like it. Very impressive.
A general guide can be found here on the FontFont website. Buy the whole family for $129, or try out one font (I’d go with Chartwell Pies) for just $25.
Illegal Burger in Oslo, Norway.
Found on one of my favorite new websites, Art of the Menu.
I love the illustrations, and the brown paper bag best.
Designed by The Metric System.
"When you’re working and you make mistakes, particularly when you’re young, you make discoveries because you do things that are inappropriate and wrongheaded, but within the wrongheadedness you find an unexpected way to go. These things are truly the breakthroughs. You have to get bad in order to get good. You have to try a lot of things and fail in order to make the next discovery."
— Paula Scher, Partner at Pentagram
This book shows and explains typography like no other book I’ve seen.
