Category Archives: Graphics

David Kassan – iPad art

time lapse of new york artist David Kassan painting a portrait with ‘brushes’ on the iPad. check the video – time lapse of just the on-screen action starts at 6’22 min – well worth a look! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video David Kassan website
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Logorama Wins Oscar

Logorama from Marc Altshuler – Human Music on Vimeo. Logorama, French Agency H5‘s film that we reported on previously, won an oscar this year. Congratulations! Logorama is 17 minutes of Hollywood blockbuster action, rife with car chases, natural disasters, and hostage-taking, but created entirely out of real world logotypes and brand characters.  In it, you’ll [...]
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Need a Typeface?

Check Julian Hansen’s type face flow chart for choosing the right type face for your needs. If you’re an Italian restaurant, dont bother looking, just choose Bodoni.
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Graphis on flickr

nice collection of graphis annuals on flickr.
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alan kitching – eye magazine

a few videos from the eye magazine channel on vineo part one: part two: part three:
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Billion Pound-O-Gram

Information is Beautiful just came into the office to give a charming talk about, well, the beauty – and power – of data visualisation. Above is one of the thought provoking pieces that David McCandless put together for The Guardian, which puts the huge abstract numbers and costs that are bandied about by government into [...]
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Battle of Branchage

pretty pretty good. Battle of Branchage from seeper on Vimeo. Interactive architecture, light mapping, and digital technology. more of their work on the seeper website
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FUTU Magazine presentation

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video FUTU magazine‘s video presentation really caught my eye.  Interesting use of graphics and perspective on a traditional format. Also worth noting is the new spiral bound versions of Tank magazine, which no doubt helps cut their costs down, but I think adds to [...]
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Fixed: global fixed-gear bike culture

FIXED is the first book to document global fixed-gear culture. It joins the dots between the bike’s design, its racing heritage and the customization that marks its appearance on our city streets. It meets the track stars, tricksters, messengers, hill bombers and polo players the world over, linking them to the artists, designers and framebuilders [...]
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Information is Beautiful

Hierarchy of digital distractions? How to get replies in online dating? Fatality rates of diseases? Information is Beautiful has them all.
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