Category: Visual Research

More Olivetti Design

So I re-found this dreamy set of vintage Olivetti graphic design (so many new images!), on Veerle Pieters’ a blog which is worth a post on its own. Stunning content, but the site is meticulously detailed and completely coded by hand, her hand. Female developers with such extensive skill with both front & back-end development… Read more »

My Love For You Fundraiser

One of my blog heros is using her site to put on a truly epic fundraiser for the Gulf Disaster. There’s an incredible amount of talent involved, and 100% proceeds go towards the cleaning up the spill. How can you not want to invest in something handmade when it’s for a massive cause like this?… Read more »

Stuff No-One Told Me

Stuff No-One Told Me is a cartoon blog by illustrator Alex Noriega. His stuff reads like a Cathy cartoon, but way more funny. You know how sometimes you find inspiration that just exactly fits where you’re at that day? This was that for me this afternoon. Via Kris Atomic.

POST 27 on Design*Sponge!

One of the most immediate gratifications of launching POST 27’s site last February (more on that here) was the Design*Sponge email that arrived that very same day asking us to do a sneak peek of Angela’s house. Woohoo! It finally went up this week after lots of hard work. Me, Angela and Barkley spent three… Read more »

Tuli&Savu

Finnish graphic design & illustrator, Lotta Nieminen. Tuli&Savu is a Finnish poetry magazine and was designed in collaboration with another of my favorites, Janine Rewell. Each spread is beautifully attended-to; there’s a lot going on but it’s expertly controlled. I love the colors too. I guess there could be a little more continuity between the… Read more »