Category: Visual Research

Vintage Fortune Magazine Covers

My friend Davey just did a great post on vintage color palettes inspired by Fortune magazine covers over at COLOURlovers. I really couldn’t resist passing them on! I wanted to post them all, but that would be ridiculous so instead you should go here to see all the rest.

I go to Public School too!

Guys I’m so excited! My friendly friend Will Bryant has asked me to guest blog for smokin’ hot Austin collective, Public School. Joining me is the super talented Gavin Potenza who also blogs for The Strange Attractor. Also, I feel compelled to point how devious I look in this photo. I’m so totally going to… Read more »

Get it Together

It’s party time again, friends! Chad Kouri’s curated an awesome show called Get it Together and it opens tomorrow! In his words it’s “a three dimensional freak out of color, form and material.” Various 3D collages/assemblages/installations will be on display as well as an area for people to sit down and make collages themselves. After… Read more »

Journey Round My Skull

I have a new blog crush! I just found Journey Round My Skull and am particularly smitten with Will’s Forgotten Illustrators category. I’d never heard of any of these fabulous artists, most of whom seem to be Eastern European with a Mid-Century aesthetic. Very cool! Květa Pacovská: Adolf Hiefmeister: There’s several more images for these… Read more »

Looking into the Past

Jason Powell’s Looking into the Past series is really cool. He goes and finds photos of landscapes & historical markers and then shoots the photo over top of how it looks today. Jason’s also got a flickr pool where others can upload their own version too. From Fiddlesticks and Funny Girls.