Twenty Dollar Deal

Fabulous colorful prints for only 20 bucks? I'll take one of each please!

Take a look at them all at Andy Pratt Design.

Black Cat

My roommate desperately wants a black cat named Nora. Cats and I have a hate-hate relationship, and thankfully our building does not allow pets so this debate has ended between us.

On Found (with one F) I saw this posting for a missing cat. I think this is the best designed missing pet poster I have ever seen. The perfect amount of information, perfectly displayed.

Gotham Condensed

I love Gotham, so I got pretty excited when I saw this on the typography.com.

Flush Left

Flush Left at Pixelseed

Really Arty Poster Search

Above is the winner of the Really Arty Poster Search for Flight of the Conchords. I think it is a lovely choice, the poster is designed by DKNG. There were lots of nice contribution and you can see them here.

Barbie Dreamhouse

I die, that's right Rachel Zoe I said it, are you going to sue me now? Jonathan Adler has designed a life-size Barbie Dreamhouse in Malibu. BRILLIANT. (see more images on mawphotos flickr)

I love all the Barbie stuff going on right now. Did you guys all see the Bloomingdales windows and the sketches and images from the Barbie Runway show at Fashion Week? 

(photo a classmate of mine took at fashion week)

Big Small

My best friend likes to edit my facebook profile and for quite some time it has read

drag racing, getting tattoos, pumping iron, pimped out rides, heavy metal, sound systems that blow women's clothes off, hardcore poetry... pretty much just being extreme to the MAX, and butt hash.

Now, not all of that is true but I like extreme things. When I am designing something I like to do something that is either extremely large or extremely small. Or perhaps using a material out of the ordinary, for example freshman year I built a dog entirely out of peanut butter and toast. (Neither my roommates or I have eaten peanut butter toast since). So I like things like the piece by Raymond Hains above, which is a giant matchbook (93 x 80 x 45 cm)

Image from here.

Yay!Everyday!

The other day I was doing my usaual ffffound rounds, and came across this great concept for a poster for The Dark Knight. So I clicked  and found that this poster came from a website called yay!everyday. From what I can tell, it is a multi user (design-based) blog, where you can sign up and post whatever you want. It has a really great variety, and is fun to scroll through.

Penguin

So many delightful things are going on for Penguin's 70th birthday. Mugs, beach chairs, towels...But can we just take a moment to look at how cute the Penguin is just by himself (or herself, not quite sure on that one)

A gift guide for kids?

I was looking over at Black Eiffel the other day and she had a gift guide for youngsters. But I want everything on that gift guide. Apparently good design is good for all ages. Bonus, everything is under $15!

Food + Design = Love

I got an e-mail about purchasing B.R. Guest giftcard. They own restaurants like Dos Caminos that do the table side guacamole, mmmm. I have no intention of buying a gift card, but I there is something about the design that I am really digging.

Hitchcock Redesigned

Recently I did a project designing a poster for an Alfred Hitchcock film festival. My friend then saw these posters and thought of me. I thought they were pretty cool so I thought I would share them with all of you!

Things I miss

So I was watching ABC Family, as most 20 year olds do, and a disney movie came on. Specifically, "Cars" and instead of seeing the opening logo that you see above I saw some horrible digitized version of it. It made me so sad. Everyone seems to be doing things digital just because they can. I yearn for cartoons that actually look like they were drawn, those were and still are the best. 

Lucky Penny

Saw this penny paper weight commemorating the 80th anniversary of Cole Haan and fell in love.

One More

I just wanted to share one more cover you all.

The Best of the Marx Brothers.

Beautiful Books

I came across a The Folio Society: Beautiful Illustrated Books. And it is true they are, I looooove these covers. Yum.

The Complete Prose of Woody Allen

The Diary of Nobody

Michael Schwab

One of my teachers introduced me to the work of Michael Schwab as a source of inspiration for a project I just finished. His work is great, and has a really nice classic look.

I admit it

I have a thing for facial hair. Whether it be a fabulous old man strutting down the street with a moustache and pipe, or a hipster with some adorable scruff. I dig facial hair, and I am not afraid to admit it. Thus I love this logo. Created by someone called TConrad on LogoPond.

So true

Because Studio.

Subliminal Advertising

I went do dinner with a friend the other day, and he asked me if since I am design student if I analyze pretty much every advertisement I see. And at times, yes I do, and I really can't watch ads because my mind goes into overload. But it isn't just the design but the content, which is really part of the design. Like how in the original ads for the iPhone the person who was calling was Johnny Appleseed, subliminally putting in the idea that the iPhone was a piece of Americana. Oh man there is so much about those commercials to analyze.

This also means I am one of those people who always pick out all the product placements in TV shows and movies. So when I saw these posters that look like minimal movie posters, but instead of the actors names it has all the companies that had product placements, I was intrigued. But you know what, now these posters are advertising both the movies and the products all over again. And now I am part of that. Oh what a vicious circle.