My pal Sarah of Post Expose contacted me about this excellent 08AMA t-shirt. Set in Akzidenz Grotesk and hand screen printed with water-based eco-friendly inks. You can get one for $20, $5 of which will be donated to the Barack Obama campaign.
Cigarettes With Style
I personally hate cigarettes but I’m in love with this minimalist packaging design for Japanese cigarette company JT Tobacco. Designed by ASYL, the packaging features a gorgeous side slide box. I always love when I see design that challenges the standard.
The Ampersand
For a while now I’ve been meaning to write about The Ampersand, an excellent blog featuring the most interesting mark in a character set.
Also, here’s a great article by Jonathan Hoefler on the history of the ampersand.
Sharebrain Interviews Me
The web designer/developer resource site Sharebrain has conducted an interview with yours truly. Check it out if you care to learn a little more about me.
Oh, sorry for the typos in the interview. I already contacted them and they’re fixing it.
Objectified
Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.
Through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world’s most influential designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves?
Read director Gary Hustwit’s post about the film.
Objectified is currently in production and will have its world premiere in early 2009.
Featuring
Paola Antonelli (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Chris Bangle (BMW Group, Munich)
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (Paris)
Andrew Blauvelt (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)
Anthony Dunne (London)
Naoto Fukasawa (Tokyo)
IDEO (Palo Alto)
Jonathan Ive (Apple, California)
Hella Jongerius (Rotterdam)
Marc Newson (London/Paris)
Fiona Raby (London)
Dieter Rams (Kronberg, Germany)
Karim Rashid (New York)
Alice Rawsthorn (International Herald Tribune)
Rob Walker (New York Times Magazine)
and more participants TBA
You can purchase the limited-edition screenprint above that was designed by Build.
High-Res Images Of Press/1
As promised here are the high quality images of the Press/1 brochure sent over by Six art director Iain Follett. Thanks dude!
I actually received a copy of this brochure in the mail this weekend and it’s even better in person. The entire booklet has a nice texture to it.