Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Screw-off-the-other-end water bottle

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Clean Bottle is your typical reusable water bottle except both ends unscrew so you can clean the nasty out.  It's $10. Unless these guys hold hardcore patents, I suspect all your reusable water bottles will soon be doing this on the other end of their containers.  If it hasn't already begun.

Burningman Infographic

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

This Burningman infographic created by @xmasons shows the history and evolution of the event. Click to embiggen

A Field Guide to Typestatches

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

["A Field Guide to Typestaches." A $24, 18" x 24" poster from Old Tom Foolery /via Laughing Squid]

Star Posters

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

As you can see from the closeup below, designer Mark Brooks did up posters using stars. Distance yourself from these images to better make them out. [via DesignYouTrust]

“Everything you need to know about fast food” infographic

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

This Fast Food Infographic is awful old in Internet years/time.  Nevertheless. . . [via I am Bored]

Typographic Visualizations of Music Lyrics

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Designer Mico Toledo puts various chin-stroking song lyrics in visual form with his weekly project "Music Philosophy." [via Flavorwire]

Brian Alfred

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Pleasant, thoughtful mix of stop-motion like type stuff, "live action" and animation from visual artist Brian Alfred with a soundtrack heavy on sound design including Columbia, Missouri's own Jon Sheffield. So why no HD version?

Ask me about my Zombie plan

Friday, January 29th, 2010

Crap. Really do need a Tumblr blog for this sort of stuff -- like all posts here today so far. Especially for the error fetish. But pictured is a $16.95 Ask Me About My Zombie Plan Shirt from Rooster Teeth.com.  Buy it from them here.

Turn black metal guitarist into toy

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

UPDATE: Now available to Pre-Order! Never has this webspace solicited votes for anything.  That changes immediately. Above the text, black metal guitar god Olaf Thundarsson beckons you to immortalize him in an action figure toy.  Olaf -- the brainchild of my pal Phil Balsman, aka Ballsy Balsman -- needs more votes before embarking on ...

BumpTop: 3D Mac Desktop

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

BumpTop -- a Mac program that converts your drab desktop from 2D into 3D --  looks interesting enough to try. Tech Startups brings a "hands-on" review and opines.