Merry Christmas Bedford Falls…

Chokes me up ever time… Merry Christ­mas every one!

Digital Ephemera

It’s Wednes­day, so that means ladies and germs it’s time for another install­ment of dig­i­tal ephemera. Which is a col­lec­tion of inter­est­ing bits and bytes I’ve run across on the infor­ma­tion super high­way in the past week.

Mid-century Mod­ern & Tiki

• Retro Cock­tail Hour: A great weekly radio pro­gram from Kansas Pub­lic Radio. Host Dar­rell Brog­don spins Ultra-Lounge, Exot­ica and cool mid-century tunes. Sim­ply amaz­ing! Mr. Brog­don has an ency­clo­pe­dic knowl­edge of the topic and his digres­sions are almost as good as the tunes.
• Mon­sters Attack! 26 Epic Retro Hor­ror Movie Posters

Good Design resources, tips and tricks

• 50 Pow­er­ful Time­savers for Web­de­sign­ers. A great col­lec­tion of tips, graph­ics and other dig­i­tal good­ies from the lads and lasses at Smash­ing Magazine.
• Have designer’s block? Check out this help­ful arti­cle on how to have an idea from the ever use­ful How Mag­a­zine blog.

Free­bies

• Shame­less Plug… my tree bark textures.
• Hump­back Whales Pho­to­Shop Brushes… insert Star Trek IV or Moby Dick joke here.

Illus­tra­tion

• Vin­tage Children’s Books my Kid Loves… a fab­u­lous blog from Bur­gin Streetman

Great sites worth explor­ing

• Harvard’s Michael Sandel’s amaz­ing course in Moral Phi­los­o­phy can be watched for free. Not  design related, but well worth check­ing out and invest­ing time in this thought pro­vok­ing work.

Finally some­thing really cool: the video for the song “Card­board Houses” by IG88 from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo

. I love the archival imagery jux­ta­posed with the cut­ting edge music.

“Card­board Houses” by IG88 from Kurt Lorenz on Vimeo.

If you have any cool design, art, tiki or mid-century links or thoughts let me know. Leave a comment.