Archive for the ‘design’ Category

Robin Rosenthal

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.

T.I.’s Paper Trail by Ian Wright

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)

Design Tunes Up Altec Lansing

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

Atocha Design Record Cabinet. Perfect height with decks on top. Hand crafted. Room for plenty of my favorite LPs. Yes, please. (Via Cool Hunting)

Little Giants: Don Pendleton

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 [...]

New Work: Crate & Barrel

Finally, after over year since the initial design was completed, Crate & Barrel has re-launched.
Previous design

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iPhone UI Elements PSD

teehan+lax helps out the iPhone app developer in you with a handy PSD containing all the essential iPhone UI elements.

Quasi-Massive Link-Up

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 [...]

XOXO laptop by Yves Béhar

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.jp

Tha = Crazy fresh work out of Japan. Just downloaded their Helvetica ‘dropclock’ screensaver (released under Tha’s ’src’ brand). Bad. Ass. (Via The Skinny)