Straw Dog Design is a hub for designer and blue sky day-dreamer Josiah DePaoli. It contains a blog, and a link to a portfolio and resume (you can find those above under "My Stuff"). It will change your life.
Happy Columbus Day everyone. Like most people, you probably woke up this morning and thought, “hey…I’ve got an extra day off work, I’m going to fill it with a semi-difficult home project to impress my friends.” Well, dear readers, you’ve come to the right place. I present the answer to your call. Mike Galloway undertook a recent project to create a ceiling full of stars for his soon to be born child. He’s posted a full look at what it took to do this undertaking. Along the way he dispenses useful pictures, as well as the occasional bits of wisdom…which includes a heartfelt suggestion not to deal with insulation in your 120 degree attic while wearing minimal clothing.
acob Cass of Just Creative Design has published a list of the 30 Best Fonts Designers Should Own and Use. This list is great because it not only presents the typefaces, but also links to places to purchase them as well as suggests where and how to use each of them.
And from the lovely @hot_on_a_dime comes the link to Daily Drop Cap. DDC is the work of Jess Hische who is apparently outputting a drop-cap every single day (you can see the J from Oct 6th at the beginning of this post). Some odd letters so far, we need some RSTLNE’s right away Jess!
This video comes our way via @pdxschroeder. Although from a different world, it strikes mildly close to home. Plus I dig the retro animation. Hit the jump to see me go on a rant. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s time once again for a break-neck tour around all the awesomeness Friday has to offer. Along for the ride is our usual companion: Vimeo. This weeks theme: videos involving paper in some way. Hit the jump for the rest of the videos.
Dead All Along A music video for Ceri Frost by Giles Timms. Done in After Effects using a pen-and-ink style. Interesting seeing something so tangible (paper cutouts) created in an intangible way.
This design has been making the rounds on the internet over the past couple days. I’ve got to say I really like it, and I wish Facebook would just pay Barton Smith and implement this right away. The design feels like what would possibly happen to Facebook if the design gurus at Virb had their way with it. He’s made some pretty smart moves between apparently making the news feed a CNN-esque ticker at the bottom, and making events into it’s own calendar.
However, I’ll tell you why Facebook will never output something this cool. 1) There isn’t enough space dedicated to ads for girls who are just DYING to meet you. 2) The news feed can’t display info from a million different vapid applications and quizzes. While I’m at it, let me step up on the soapbox and say how disgusting it’s been to watch people turn Facebook into MySpace with all their vapid quizzes and applications. The last point of hold-out against this virus is the fact that people can’t customize their profiles with songs and glitter graphics. And for that, Facebook should be applauded.
The new Disney Parks Blog posted this video last week. Tilt-shift is a technique that allows for selective focusing and makes photographs of normal places appear as if they were a super-detailed model of sorts. Disney has assembled another post about how the video was made. Therein also lies the revelation that commenters on the video last week claimed they were “moved to tears.” It’s hard to say if those tears were due to the video itself, or the fact they realized there were at a life stage where watching a tilt-shift video of Disney World made them cry.
Blaberzine has compiled a list of 28 different typographic wallpapers to festively adorn your desktop with. 40+ more wallpapers come from Trip Wire Magazine (and a heckofalot better than the collection from Blaberzine. There’s some bleed-over between the two, but hopefully you will find at least one wallpaper to put on your desktop for at least one day.
One enterprising Instructables user saw this rather chic word clock on Make and thought “hey, I could make that.” Creator drj113 has posted all the instructions for making one of these awesome clocks on Instructables. Pretty awesome idea, I would love to have one of these hanging on my wall. However, I have a good feeling that were I to attempt this this I would be left with a pile of broken, expensive wires and do-dads.
Yesterday’s post regarding minimalist videogame posters reminded me of a similar visual experiment from a couple month’s back started by Olly Moss and continued by the crew over at Something Awful. The task at hand was to imagine videogames as minimalist book covers of yesteryear. (Plus…one of them featured Mirror’sEdge, so I was on board.)
See Olly’s work here, and see the rest that followed here. Oh, and have a great weekend.
Back in the beginning of August, a couple flickr users assembled a group aimed at recreating various movie posters using minimalist aesthetics. (An experiment I feel sort-of failed due to the rigid restriction to include a big ol’ circle in each one…but I digress..). Now, flickr user infinatecontinues has taken it upon himself to recreate a similar experiment using videogame characters. I feel some of them are a little hit-or-miss (Bowser, Master Chief), but some of them are pure moderist brilliance (Kirby, Vega, DK, etc.) Pop on over and check out his ever-growing collection.
Straw Dog Design is a hub for designer and blue sky day-dreamer Josiah DePaoli. It contains a blog, and a link to a portfolio and resume (you can find those above under "My Stuff"). It will change your life. For more info about this site, check out my About page.
acob Cass of Just Creative Design has published a list of the 
