Robin Rosenthal is amazing art director and illustrator. I found her site through a mutual friend of her husband (who just launched his first iPhone app - talented duo!). I can’t wait to get my niece the numbers and alphabets posters.
Ian Wright does the cover for T.I.’s new album, Paper Trail. The cover is a photo of a composition of actual scraps of paper and money. Sick. (via QBN)
Great article here about how Altec Lansing is banking on design to help improve the bottom line.
Normally, I write off these stories as desperate last ditch attempts from stuffed-shirted CEOs who see Apple making “pretty” products and want to capitalize on it by doing an aesthetic redesign vs a true re-thinking of their product line. [...]
Atocha Design Record Cabinet. Perfect height with decks on top. Hand crafted. Room for plenty of my favorite LPs. Yes, please. (Via Cool Hunting)
Skater turned kick-ass illustrator, Don Pendleton is featured in this Little Giants doc.
It traces Don’s involvement in the skate scene and how he turned his two passions, skating and illustration, into a successful career. For me, it’s an example of the concept of doing what you love/loving what you do.
UPDATE: Livestock VAN will be [...]
Finally, after over year since the initial design was completed, Crate & Barrel has re-launched.
Previous design
Live now
teehan+lax helps out the iPhone app developer in you with a handy PSD containing all the essential iPhone UI elements.
Here’s 10 things that have caught my eye in the last month and a half (in no particular order)
The Olympics - NYTimes.com created this great tool to track all your favorite events here
Bell Canada rebrands and relaunches
Pantry, a local gourmet-to-go kitchen, grocery and coffee shop owned and operated by my friend Greg Bolton gets some love [...]
I’m away at MeshU most of today (which is going really well by the way) but I wanted to post quickly on an update to my favorite project. Yves Béhar revealed his redesign of the XO Laptop for OLPC. It’s a touch screen, fold-out tablet and it looks absolutely stunning.
My immediate thoughts are that the full-screen interface [...]
Tha = Crazy fresh work out of Japan. Just downloaded their Helvetica ‘dropclock’ screensaver (released under Tha’s ’src’ brand). Bad. Ass. (Via The Skinny)
