Airport Wayfinding and Signage

Airports are big, and have a lot of people, and a lot of those people have never been to that airport before and are in a hurry. This translates to one of the more challenging and important signage systems. The link will take you to an interesting article about how to approach a project like this, what works and what doesn't, and lots of examples.

This is Absurdly Awesome

Nagi Noda (1973 – 2008)

"Dancing eyeballs, fitness-video-exercising poodles, half pandas/half other animals, and singing merchandise in a boutique store are only a few of the vivid, perplexing imaginings of Nagi Noda, the talented, eccentric and boundary-pushing artist, art director and fashion designer from Tokyo." (From: SpeakUp)

Fun With Music Packaging

For their upcoming new album, Skeletal Lamping, the group Of Montreal will be exploring objects that could be considered slightly more useful than a CD, which has become increasingly less useful. Below are just some the items that will be accompanied with a free digital download of the album. Click the link for a better look at some of the offerings, and an explanation from the artist himself.

Art and Photography

Some Monday morning munchies for everybody. Two artists' websites that have some cool stuff.

Gregor Graf: nice "conceptual" photography, some nice installations, all in German, mutterficker!





Nancy Abens: beautiful nature photography

The worlds first underground stadium. Stadium Laptop.

Cool... check check it out!

Esquire Going Digital for 75th Birthday

This week Esquire magazine will be the first to introduce "digital paper" on a mass produced publication level. Sounds pretty sweet, right? The possibilities are endless. Alas, click here to see the fairly unimpressive results. Well, at least the possibilities are there. Click this post's title for a little more explanation.

Word(le) Up!

 Here's an interesting tool (particularly interesting if someone can suggest how it might be useful). Wordle is a site that the will generate word clouds out of blocks of copy or web sites you link it to. Above is what the text from this blog boils down to. How about that?

Digging For A Cause

Since I haven't posted about records in few months I figured we were due. Here's a couple sweet drawings that give you a little insight into my dark psyche. Record collecting ain't for everybody.

Graphics, don't just sit there, move about!

Cool database I stumbled across of motion graphics sample reels from a variety of artists and firms.

http://xplsv.tv/movies/?start=0

If you have an aversion to techno-pop or graphic scroll overkill a lot of these examples probably aren't for you.

Kick it homeskillet.