Over at Speak Up Armin posed the following, i’m summarizing because you can get lost in all of the comments over there, and I wanted to solidify my point as a complete idea:
Milton Glaser’s Dylan poster. Paul Rand’s IBM logo. Paula Scher’s Public Theater posters. Massimo Vignelli’s New York subway map. Kyle Cooper’s Seven opening [...]

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I recently joined two new social networks, both related to design. I have been a member for a little bit now, however, until now I haven’t posted any projects. I am going to do a little comparison. I am posting the same work on both sites, and I will then track my progress [...]

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A few weeks ago I was in a cab with j and finally wanted to know what the deal was with the redesign of the NYC Taxi logo. I insanely asked my cab driver expecting him to go into a design brief about the subject; to no avail. After seeing it for some time, looking [...]

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Over at Under Consideration Armin Vit and Co. have created a powerhouse family of websites that I have come to check regularly over the years for inspiring, and creative content. While my google reader sends me regular updates to Quipsologies and Brand New, when I have some extra time I find myself over at [...]

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Since the ban on outdoor billboards within the city limits of Sao Paulo back in January, there has been a sad desolate feeling within the absence of the empty frames of the once vibrant ads. It seemed it would be only a matter of time until street art would peek its head out into [...]

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Last Friday was the return of Coudal’s Photoshop Tennis in the form of Layer Tennis. I found myself checking back at 3 and pretty much losing my afternoon trying to follow the volleys. Great Idea in theory, but the volleys took way longer than the 15 min limit, and I don’t think it [...]

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Well, the weekend came and went, and I did not actually don a mustache and stalk Tobias Frere-Jones’ walking tour. Somehow tickets went from not for sale to sold out real quick. However, who needs to go when you have flickr. Here are a few photo sets. More to come as I find [...]

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I know, I know, why start at Sean Combs, ever since the dawn of hip hop, break beats have been used to remix music by popular artists. It is in fact what all DJ’s did in the early days; mix other people’s music together to get a new sound. But, in my lifetime, [...]

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So, my first brazilian post! Here are some really cool pillows from brazil. Leave it to a brazilian company to understand the wonders of early american cinema. They make t-shirts too. Now I gotta figure out how to buy one.
*By the way note that the translation of Laurel and Hardy in Portuguese, (O Gordo [...]

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So I just got back from seeing Helvetica at IFC, and I really enjoyed it, with sharp observations by Michael Bierut, the intensity of Erik Spiekermann, and a humorous, and not drunk David Carson just to name a few.
Here are my personal highlights.
-Massimo Vignelli’s studio.
-Lars Müller pointing at Helvetica signs in what looks like a [...]

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