This month’s theme of food and design worked out perfectly, because I’ve been talking non-stop about my new obsession: TLC’s Cake Boss. Like many of its other cake show brethren, Cake Boss goes behind the scenes of a well-known bakery to show the mayhem of the baked goods business. In this instance, its Carlo’s Bakery in […]
There’s no denying the food truck trend that’s been sweeping the city. New trucks with interesting concepts are popping up left and right. And the good thing for us designers (other than all the delicious food options) is that many of them are really considering their design.
It makes sense — it’s tough to stand out on the […]
Contraband is a new book by Taryn Simon. The book is a collection of phởtographs taken over the course of five days in November of 2009 during which Simon lived at New York City’s John F Kennedy International Airport. The book features phởtographs taken 24 hours a day of over 1,000 items that were either detained or seized from international […]
As a new devotee to the Pantone color matching system, I was extremely excited to learn that there is now a Pantone Hotel. Yes, that’s right – a hotel dedicated entirely to Pantone and their colors.
The hotel is located in Brussels, so if you’ve been itching to get to Belgium for some waffles, there’s no better time to go (or […]
With all this 90+ degree weather we’ve been having, I’m dreaming (more than usual) of island getaways and sitting on the edge of the surf cooling off with a frosty beverage in hand. Luckily, I’m slipping away for a long weekend to Puerto Rico in a few weeks. In doing a little research, I noticed that the Puerto Rico logo […]
It may be easy to gather from my previous post that I’m a bit of a poster fanatic. In fact, I’m running out of wall space. While poking around the internet trying to find inspiration for this post, I took a break to see what fun new things were in The Heads of State webstore, and saw these.
In their […]
Designer Tyler Thompson took it upon himself to tackle a redesign of something millions of people use – the boarding pass. It is one of those everyday items that is completely overlooked in terms of design and functionality. They’re usually unattractive and often incredibly confusing.
Here is the actual boarding pass he used as a starting point:
And here is the redesign:
Clean, […]
I’ve never been a big geography buff. That giant multicolored US map from elementary school still gives me anxiety, mostly because I couldn’t (… can’t) tell the difference between all those square states out West. But recently I came across a couple of really well-designed maps that caught my eye.
I love the modern but also slightly 70s feel of the […]
Being from Michigan, particularly outside of Detroit, I always have an interest in what is going on in that area. Detroit itself is a vanishing city; with the American car market tanking, the city has lost the majority of its population and jobs, and crime is up and tourism is down. A friend recently told me about an […]
This blog post goes out to all of my fellow history buffs.
I love fun ways of displaying data and information, and while researching this month’s blog topic, Information Graphics, I found a treasure trove of cool visual timeline maps on History Shots.
Each map displays its data in a way that is aesthetically pleasing and frankly, […]
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