Archive for May, 2009

5-22-2009

NagoyaType

Type designer Ray Larabie shoots cool, funky type in Nagoya, Japan, where he lives. Kind of like my ChicagoType. I found this through the MyFonts newsletter.

5-20-2009

Shopping bags.

Freitag’s got this cool new shop in Berlin. And it’s on Max Beer Street?! How cool is that?

5-15-2009

Ketchup Barometer

Just found out my friend Tony from Vessel is secretly a cartoonist on the side.

5-9-2009

Calculatrices

Weird and wonderful French Web site devoted to old electronics, I think. I don’t speak French. But check out this page for tons of calculators from the 70s. Here’s some of my faves:

5-8-2009

Collect for Output for Illustrator

I really like this little app. I can’t understand why Adobe hasn’t made collect for output a feature in Illustrator (or have they? I’m still on CS3!) But this app makes up for it, and does a great job. The free trial is great because it gives you a certain number of “launches” rather than [...]

5-3-2009

Robots rule

Here’s a great illo from Tavis Coburn. Way back in the day, I hired him to do an illustration for Dwell. Would love to work with him again some time.