Faking Tilt Shift Photography with a Painting

I saw these amazing images that used a faked version of tilt shift photography on some paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. These great images were created by Mathieu S of theswedishbed.com. I thought it was a cool idea to...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-03

Amazing Retro Soviet Styled Posters - a set on Flickr http://goo.gl/NtLZ # "Frank Miller Makes History Awesome" by Caldwell Tanner on CollegeHumor http://goo.gl/AKpr # A good roundup RT @TaaDaaGina: 20 Best Websites to Learn and Master CSS http://bit.ly/dqp9em via...

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Twilight of the Idols

Very sad news. The custodian at my work was dusting and "accidentally" knocked over on of my many Tikis. Traumatic to say the least. Hope he doesn't plan any surfing any time soon or he'll find out, just like...

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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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Digital Ephemera

A few interesting bits of digital ephemera I've found on the information super highway in the last week. Mid-century Modern & Tiki Paul Malon's Flickr Stream, an amazing collection of mid-century ephemera, you simply MUST check this flickr photostream if you...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19

Sadly no Tiamat from the D&D cartoon. Uh oh, I just outed myself as a D&D geek! RT @aextnet: Artworks of Dragons - http://bit.ly/dhxyNy # Cool post, oddly it makes me want to see #TRON Legacy! RT @PsDeluxe: Cool...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-05

Great Branding! Wright Brothers Oyster & Fish Bar | Identity Designed http://goo.gl/oxIa # Great tunes! omg best album ever: http://kurtlorenz.bandcamp.com/album/the-general-analysis-of-nature-ep # The Chart of Fantasy Art, 2009 | Orbit Books | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy http://goo.gl/bJai # Getting my geek on......

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Design Something Every Day 29/365

For this entry into my Design Something Every Day project I created a digital doodle for one of the greatest books of the 20th Century, William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The book pulls back the curtain of civilized...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29

Web Design Boot Camp starts Sep 1st at @creativeLIVE! Sign-up for FREE: http://bit.ly/webbootcamp # 12 Logo Design Mistakes To Avoid http://goo.gl/fUDM # My god, it's full of stars... great large jpegs from 2001 Stanley Kubrick - Deserving of Worship http://pineapples101.blogspot.com/ #...

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Design Something Every Day… Dude 28/365

A little thing I made for an upcoming event at Temple De Hirsch Sinai. It's based on The Big Lebowski of course. The Dude abides.... To follow this little bit up, here's one of my favorite scenes from The Big...

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2001: A Design Something Every Day Odyssey

I am a big fan of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), so you can imagine my excitement when I saw this post of great promotional pictures from 2001: A Space Odyssey on the blog Stanley Kubrick - Deserving of Worship....

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22

Free #tiki music! Humu Kon Tiki » Blog Archive » Swank Vinyl Exotica I & II, Now Free http://goo.gl/TXuP # Great collection of Book Cover Archive http://www.abudnitz.com/covers/ via @HOWbrand # Just discovered a new function on my iPod Touch. Apparently in...

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