Posts Tagged ‘Design’

The Architecture of Security

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Building cities to be insurgency-proof, and other resurgences of medieval-era defensive tactics under a shroud of air superiority.

I love the design of cigarette packs…

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

… but not enough to take up smoking. Luckily, Brand New has the hookup with the new Camel pack designs!

I love the textures on the background

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

By Subnormal.pl.

Colorblok Illustrations

Monday, March 10th, 2008

I liked these two.

Simple-shapes illustration of a field of flowers

Colorful simple-shapes dragon illustration

More at the colorblok website.

Area codes in which Ludacris claims to have hoes

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Someone mapped out the area codes where Ludacris claims to have hoes, and the big red splotch on Nebraska makes it awesome.

Bugatti Veyron vs. Eurofighter Typhoon

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007


Top Gear is one of the best shows out there. Where else can you see a race between a jet fighter and a really fast car?

Screens, large and small

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

“If newspapers are windows onto the world, what are the consequences of shrinking that window to the size of an ipod screen?”
Ben Vershbow on The Institute for the Future of the Book’s blog

Khoi Vinh on control

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Khoi Vinh, design director for NYTimes.com and author of the excellent blog Subtraction, talks about how control is one of the centrally distinguishing issues between print design and web/interactive design.

Real-Life Warthog vehicle from Halo

Monday, October 8th, 2007


It’s always totally surreal when something makes the leap from fiction to reality and even moreso with the usually-exaggerated realism of video games, which I guess makes this video one of the freakier things I’ve ever seen.

Soviet Cover Art for War of the Worlds

Friday, October 5th, 2007


Soviet graphic design + War of the Worlds tripods = awesome?
See also: Soviet Poster A Day