Pretty Great Video: A Tale of Momentum & Inertia

This short video is well worth your time: A Tale of Momentum & Inertia from Portland's amazing animation studio HouseSpecial.

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Great Video: Turtles or Snakes- Which do cars hit more?

This is really interesting and funny, Turtles or Snakes- Which do cars hit more? ROADKILL EXPERIMENT. Great work from Mark Rober. Via NeatoRama

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Steve Jobs on Paul Rand

I found this great interview on YouTube with Steve Jobs discussing designer Paul Rand (1914-1996). The interview focuses primarily on the Next Logo that Rand designed for Jobs' company in 1986. However for the designer there is a lot...

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The role of intuition in design with David Carson

Anyone interested in the process of design should watch this great lecture from design legend David Carson from the TED conference in 2003. His lecture is entitled "Design, Discover and Humor." In it Carson brings us this great quote...

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A Funny Chip Kidd Video

I knew Chip Kidd was a great designer and writer, however I was pleasantly amused to find out that he is also a very accomplished, if surreal impressionist. This is a really funny take on the difference between form...

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Funny Graphic Design Videos

Sometimes it seems that graphic designers are a serious lot. After all, it is not the normal person who becomes enraged at the use of papyrus as the subtitle font in Avatar. But to prove that designers and design...

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A few laughs for fellow Typophiles

As we know, typography is key in many designs. From the great type treatments used in Chipp Kidd's book covers, to the inscriptions on the base of  Trajan's Column and even to the inventive destruction of type by David...

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